The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-07-29
WILD WILLIAM.
Bill Pay ne, a LeavenwOrth Thief,
Rams. the Gauntlet at
Kansas City.
lie il Shot Twice, but Doesn't
Sci m to Mind it in
the Least.
4 Cold Bath in the Raging His
souri, Brings William to
his Senses.

Something over week ago a watch and
several valuable laces were stolen from the
residence OF Mr.. c. b. Brace, while the fam
lily was sitting out on the front porch. The
matter was at once reported to the police,
who at once began to look up the facts in
the case. Suspicion pointed strongly to
this Payne, who is notoriously bad char
acter, and he, smelling the approaching
danger, packed his little carpet sack and
sailed for Kansas City last Thursday. Last
Saturday Chief Of Police Hook went down
there and looking around spotted his man
at gin mill on Main street in that city.
Setting forth this fact to Chief Speers, Of
the police force there, the latter named
gentleman responded in his characteristic
vigorous style, going right to the point OF
the matter by ordering two OF his officers,
Nc Knight and Fredenberg, to proceed in
s,anter and arrest.
THE SABLE WILLIAM,
and at the same time suggesting to officers
Hunt and Davis that il might be well for
them to lay around loose at the scene of ac-
tion, a. it might be that the fun would be-
come 20 uproarious as to demand a club
chorus of more than ordinary strength.
Events proved that Chief Speer's head was
level, for about ten minutes afterwards the
wholesale merchants on Third and Della
ware streets thought Quantrell had arrived
in town on business. No trouble was ex-
perienced in making the arrest, Payne being
found in the saloon deeply pondering over
the uncertainties OF seven up for the drinks.
On went his coat at the first intimation Of
the honOrs intended for him, and with a
courteous request to the saloon man 10
chalk it up on the slate, he departed,
FLANKED ON EITHER SIDE
by the minions of the law, and Hunt bring
ing up the rear. Hardly had the Sidewalk
been reached, however, before the order of
march was reversed, Payne making quick
spring backward and dodging behind Fred
enburg, with the rapidity of cat with a
dilapidated tin kettle at far end OF nara
tive extension, he was on a keen jump west
ward before either ofiiber could say Jack
Robinson. And then came the fun, ex-
citement going above the blood-heat point
30 quick as to make a middle aged man
sick at heart. -" Bang, bang ~ went pistol
after pistol, and 30 thick did the bullets Fly
here and there that it did not seem As il 4
three-minute old fly
COULD LIVE IN THE AIR
long enough to get its eyes open. And in
the meantime Payne was fairly humming
down Third street. At the intersection OF
Delaware, Fredenburg managed TO get one
in on him in the neck, but beyond spurt
of blood there was nothing to tell of the
centre shot. Again, as the flying moke
bounded across Wyandotte street, Hunt let
him have it in the right arm; but like
Banquo's ghost, he would not take rest.
Down Wyandotte toward the river madly
plunged the black, and hardly had the Off
GERS reached the brink OF the bank before
THE WATERS CLOSED
over the dusky form and the crowd stood
back aghast. Up came the woolly head
once, twice, thrice, and Just as it was sink
ing back the fourth and last time a fisher
man in boat grasped it, and Bill Payne,
sicker than monkey with the gripes, was
slowly hauled ashore. Dumped into an
express wagon, he was quickly transferred
to police headquarters, where the deputy
physician and others OF the medical frater-
nifty looked to his wound, which they pro-
nounced but slight, the shot in the neck
having gone through sideways from skin to
skin, and that in the arm doing nothing
but penetrating beef, no bones being
reached. Payne, duly bandased and blan-
keted, was laid away to mediate upon the
evils of his ways in one of the lower cells,
and in few days will be in the best condi-
ton for penitentiary labors. The watch
ard chain have been found in a pawn-bro-
ker's shop in Kansas City.
Payne is an old jail-bird, having been
arrested in this city by Chief Hook, about
year ago, for breaking out of the Gala
boose at Wyandotte. He has several
aliases, being know as VIM. Vance and VIM.
Blueford At the police court yesterday
morning, he was bound over to the next
term of the District Court. The watch Of
Mr.. Brace was recovered by Mr.. Hook, but
the laces are still missing.