New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-05

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THE WESTERN BANDITS.
A Story of Blood, Punctuated with Pisto
Shots.
Correspondence New York World.l
APPLETON Cry, Mo-, March 22-It is 6
quiet Sabbath, and the land is fair will
early spring. Beautiful prairies stretch
away to belts of forest, and on the south
west the country swells and breaks into
little hills. The land is goOdly land, and
the railroad runs through it, bringing civil
lzatlon and commerce to the doors of its
jewellers. But there is from almost imme.
mortal time curse upon the country, and
on either hand OF the two shining lines of
iron that vanish in the distance into shining
needles there is hardly section OF land
that has not been wetted with the
blood Of a murdered man. and the
graves of the dead are more numer-
GUS than the houses of the living. The
Southwest has been settled by outlaws, who
bequeathed their names, feuds and weapons
to younger outlaws. Civilization to them
has had no humanizing mission; all that it
has meant was more deadly instruments of
Ottense. Collins, guns and buckshOt seem
to be all that the railroad has brought into
the country. Men 60 armed to the teeth up
and down the roads, and acquire respect
and repute from their ruffianlsm. This is
especially true, of course, of the country
lying back of the railroads. Here the bands
that laid waste bleeding Kansas were Or
gained, and here Quantrell recruited for
his raid on Lawrence. Feuds are compare
lively few, and all the homicidal and
criminal energies of the population are bent
upon Civilized folk who carry bawbees in
their pouches and wear breeks on their
hinder ends There are organized
bands of horse thieves, train robbers and
each having its headquar-
tiers, and possessing perfect chain of COM
munication along the approaches thereto.
Three or four of these men will set out on
horseback with shot-guns and revOlvers,
ditch train or rob store couple of hun
dred miles away, and then ride day and
night back to their Businesses, where they
Turk till instinct sends them out upon
another raid. Their DISCUSSES and the fact
that they commit their crimes far away
from home make it impossible to identify
them beyond the fact that they come
from Southern Missouri and are believed to
be connected with the James band, or the
Younger band, or some other band"
They are closely pursued; they raj
" reinfOrcements and beat back their
pursuers; if detectives venture after
hem they have word of their coming
ong ere the officers can arrive, and are pre-
pared to run or fight, as the exigencies OF the
Ease may dictate. Between terror and
the local population befriends
hem, and their reign of terror will continue
Unchecked until they are thinned out in
)rOlls or encounters, or till q regiment is
marched into Clay, Case, st. Clair, and the |
counties, and regular battle |
II bandits, proven and suspected, is insti- |
uted.
There have been men pre-eminent in |
rime in the south of Missouri who were |
cared in the days of border rufianism, and |
'assed their bloody baccalaureate in the |
ebelliOn. Anarchy and lawlessness were |
,lers from either army, and outlaws who |
made war on both, combined to write such
history of blood as is rarely record edit |
UGH history ever was, will, or can be |
written, that is. Where murder is a matter /
f daily occurrence people omit to take cog. |
izance of what, in more civilized parts Of
he country, would thrill the world for
Teeks with indignant horror, and where
he population is ignorant and credulous
error are sure to be circulated, and in
curse of time to become current as truths
Which it is as impossible to disprove as to
elieve Besides, these desperadOes, as
natter of policy, set ahoat the most Mum
hausen-ike Of these stories. Each
arm about cutting the threats of
risoners, or single-handed resisting
nd butchering dozen pursuers an
wers the purpose of terrifying the neigh
inf hon oil /
nd makes further exploits easy. The
tory of the "Tiger of the Ozarks" might be
Did had space and time-the outlaw who
lade his treasure house, arsenal and fort
4 a cave of the hills, and shot down every
Ian he met, defying and decimating a
Ompsny of troops sent to hunt him down.
wo United States soldiers. one an Iowa
avalryman, killed him. Playing the role of
rkansans who had been pressed to serve
l the Union army, and had deserted and
ere trying to get home, they went to a
mall cabin tenanted by a woman whose
usband the Tiger had killed. Here he was
ccustomed to take his meals. The soldiers
ere unarmed, and the Tiger came in
'alking arsenal, enough to make them
liver, without the additional fact being
lken into consideration that they had lain
II night in the cold. They told their mis-
rable tale, and besought aid to reach
ielr ArieHus. ne Fepueu lnaG anK
r Seeesh were the same to him; he
admit spared a man yet, and wasn't
Ding to begin then. They pleaded
lat they would perish of hunger and cold,
nd he said that if they were killed at once
ley would be saved so much suffering.
inally he said that he would wait until he
ad eaten his breakfast and then decide
neither or not to kill them. All this
lille he had been sitting between them
it'll his gun on his knees, and no opportu.
ity had presented itself for an attack.
uddenly he leaned forward to take a coal
ON the hearth and light his pipe, and the
wa cavalryman selling the tongs dealt
m a terrible blow on the head and
hooked him into the fireplace. His com
de seized an iron or an iron dish-I
rite from memory three or four years old
I'd both the men throwing themselves on |
In pounded his skull until it was broken
adozen places, and his face mashed to a
cody pulp. SO that she was blind-you
uldn't see where his eyes WERE" All the
nile the woman was screaming frantically:
I'LL hlm-fnish him, or he'll butcher us ! {
L" Finally he ceased to struggle. The ]
'rk was done and the avengers prepared
search his cabin, but were startled few {
nutes tier when all was quiet to see the
sporadic they thought dead move, and, all &
nd and faint az he was, try to crawl out
wards the bush. This time they made | g