Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-29

9 torture. InlS man, one morning
ventured out in the woods without
his comrades. He was walking slow
ly along, looking for game, when the
brown barrel of rifle projecting
from a bush beside him checked his
course. A tall, lank figure rose from
the bush, and the startled man recog-
niZed Sam Long, the hunter. Long
raised his rifle, and then lowered it
again.
:sYou're the man who said good
word for me, an you may go, bad as
you are. won't take your miserable
life. Coz
The man needed no second invita-
ton to go. He hurried to the camp
and told his story. The captain and
the other three men started out in pllr.
suit of Long, and but two men accom-
panied Dick Reddett when he returned!
the third man had fallen, shot in the
eye, and no search of the underbrush
revealed the hunter. The next day
another man was killed in camp, and
again the hunter escaped. On the
next day the two remaining men fled
the country, leaving the fierce Reddett
alone. The leader of the desperadOes
dared not remain where he was. He
knew he was the man above all others
that Long sought to kill.
Concealing himself until night, he
mounted his horse and fled for the
nearest point on the Arkansas River
where it would be possible to take pas.
sage on a steamboat. Two days later
he reached small landing in the
woods on the banks of the river,
where the steamer stopped for passen-
gers, when there were any to take.
lie learned from the occupant of the
only cabin in the neighborhood that
the boat would be down in the after.
noon, and so, having put up the signal
to secure landing of the boat, estab
lished himself on the bank and waited
He deemed himself safe enough from
pursuit, and took no precautions
Throwing himself on the ground, he
slept until, late in the day, he was
awakened by the sound of the boat in
the distance. She would round &
point in a moment or two, and hi
waited expectantly. As suddenly as
though risen from the ground, Il lanl
figure stood before him, and the muz
zle of a rifle peered in his face. The
terrified desperate had no difficulty il
recognizing the man as the one he hat
injured. With the rifle still helt
steadily upon the face of the startled
Reddett, Long Kissed:
s'I've got you! You whipped me
Whipped me like a Niger, like dog
I swore I'd kill you before I'd call my
selfa man again, and I'm goin' to dt
it! I've cleaned out your band, ant
now it's your turn Oh, I've got you
Thank God, I've got you!'
The ruflian in abject fear pleaded
for his life, groveling at the feet o,
the hunter. He chung to his words a:
4 drowning man clings to straws. Thu
boat was very near. Should Sh'
round the point in time he would b.
saved! Already her smoke-stack
showed through the brush, when thu
hunter pressed the trigger, the shar]
report rang out, and Reddett fell dead
shot to the brain through the left eye
Long slipped away in the woods, and
when the boat stopped in response t.
the signal, they found dead man, bu
no one else. Harrison county was ri,
forever of the worst gang of ruffian
in tho Southwest.
''An' that, stranger said the oil
man in the Dallas hotel, ''is tru'
story of the way Sam Long settled &c
counts with the blackguards.'