The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-10
the fool dietb, or "a johnson wrote OF
Charles XII:
His fall was destined TO q foreign strand.
netty fortress and a dubious hand,

His fall was destined to foreign strand,
petty fortress and dubious hand,
: He does not appear to have set out on
the prospecting tour TO which he sludes
in his letter, for August l he was still at
/ Deadwood, where fate brought him TO
the same csrd-tsble with one Jack Nc
Call q gambling sharper and ugly
character OF him Bill got the better at
poker. On the last hand Mccall bet SO
and lost, aud when he came to settle
found that he had only $3.50 Bill re-
marking you oughtn't to overbet your
pile; that's no way TO play cards, handed
him back So bill to pay Tor mis- lodging
and breakfast, and the men parted. he
thought no more of the matter, neither
did any one else who knew OF it. Next
morning Bill WAS sitting with q number
OF card players in the Senate saloon.
| when Mccall came behind him nOlseless-
ly, placed the nuZzle OF his revolver to
the back OF his head and crying, Cake
that, damn you, fired. Wild Bill died.
and never knew now, why or by whom
he Was killed The ball trsverscd the
skull, came out under his right eye, and
entered he arm OF b!s opponent steam
boat captain, disabling nIm for lie. Nc
Cal, keeping his reviewers cooked and
pointed on the players, backed out OF the
room aud escaped A miners court was
formed, which acquitted him. manly be-
cause of his declaration that Wild Bill
had killed his brother III an ARRAY so
that he was but the avenger of blood.
California Joe, another of Clusters scouts
whom he describe. ~ length in his book,
however, approached him after the ac-
quittal and SAID significantly, al guess
YOU had better leave DeadwoOd. 1t Ism u
heslthy place" Mccall looked in his eye
and LETT.
Dead wood WAS not a healthy place. A
little while later California Joe WAS
killed; not until he had assisted ut
notable funeral accorded TO the remains
OF Wild Bill, whom the people OF Dead.
wood seem TO have regretted sincerely.
Mccall went on to Custer City, and there
could not keep from boasLirg that he had
killed Wild Bill. A United States
marshal overheard him and arrested
him, and on the lst OF March last the
murderer OF the second of Mrs. Lakes
lswat Yankton. He died game. As
Marshal Burdck was returning from
the execution ne received the following
letter:
LOUISVILLE, Ky, February 20.
DEAR SIR: | saw in the morning
papers piece about the sentence of the
murderer of wild Bill" JACK Mccall.
There WAS young man OF the name Nc
Call left here about six years ago, who
has not been heard from for the last
three wears He mas father, mother
and three sisters living here IN Louisville
| roo are very uneasy about him since
they heard about the murder OF "Wild
Bill" Ifyou CAL send us any inlorma
ton about him we will be very thankful
to you. This John Mccall is about
twenty five years Old; has light hair, in
cannot say about his height, rs ne WAS
not grown when be left here. Please
write as soon rs convenient, rs we are
very anxious 10 hear from you. Very
respectfully, MARY A MCCALL.
1t was the same John Mccall who
had left home six years before, boy
still at the growing age, VINO had turned
gambler ard ruftian and had troddeH the
red path OF murder to the scafOld.
Mrs. Hickok, or Mrs. Lake, rs her
friends will more readily recog-
nIze her, relatives in Il few
DAYS to visit her relatives in en-
cinnati. Was not right IN saying that
there was sufficiently singular romance
intcrwoyen with her married life?