Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-10-18

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to his head and ted him he would
shoot him if he moved, Kay did
not move. Glascock order
ed two more horses saddled.
They then tied Kazy ON his horse.
The Sheriff and Carter then got on
their horses and the cavalcade
moved off, Glascock- leading Kazy's
horse. They went down to the branch
near Tom Smiths, in South Mexico,
and as they thought no one would
get wind of them there, they stopped,
Glasco ok then went and got John
Coons, Boo Steele and a young man
named Moore. All got hosses
and double-barrel shot-guns
which were loaded with buck shot.
They then told Kay they would have
to know where Berry a He said
he had not seen him since he Derry
had told him he could have the clothes,
which was about a week before. The
posse then got around Kay put their
guns to his heart and told him if he
led them into any trap or did not take
them at once to his house they would
shoot him down In a minute. He said
he would take them to his house IL it
would do them any good. The
men started out toward Kazy's house
and passed jeff Jones about II O'Clock
Saturday night. About 3 O'Clock
they got to John Armstrong;; Sher-
IF Giascock told him what they had
dome and wanted Armstrong to go
with them and show them where
Kay lived, as he was afraid
that Kay would fool them.
Armstrong said he did not know
where Kay lived and so would not
go. We don't know whether ARM
strong knew or not. 1t was then 5
o'clock Sunday morning. When
they got within about one-half mile of
Kazy's house they took Kay off tied
him and left Bob Steele to guard him,
then Glascock placed two men north
of the house and stable, Moore and
himself going OF the south and west
side and as the open timber was there
they thought he might be over in that.
Kay had pluck, for before they tied
him they old him to tell where Berry
W IS or he would be sorry for it, but
is sill said lie knew nothing.
They did not alarm RaZy's house at
all, it was not quite daylight yet.
They all secreted themselves in thick
els as mentioned above to await re-
sults. Glascock told his men, ''boys
if you seee him, halt him, if he shows
fight shoot him down, ifhe rqas shoot
him in the legs, catch him at all haz-
ards" In about one-half hour
Glascock heard q horse ''nicker''
about one-half a mile off as he thought.
More and Glascock then crept toward
the noise, went 500 yards down the
branch, came to a fence, saw fresh
horse tracks; Glascock got e the
fence and got into a thicket, heard
the horse snort about 80 yards off in
the brush. Glascock then crawled
toward the horse about go steps, got
upon his knees and saw the hack of the
horse 40 yards off. Glascocl took
off his hat and crept up 20 yards clos
ser, then he raised up and saw Berry
unhitching the horse from Il tree.
Berry then lead his horse aslant t.
ward Glascock, as Berry now says
to lead him to water, Glascock cooked
both barrels Of his gun, ran out
about 20 yards, within about 20 feet
Of Berry and demanded him to halt!
Berry st rted to run, Glascock shot,
but aimed too high which caused the
charge to go over Berry's head. He
shot again and Z buck shot lodged in
Berry's LETT leg below tbs knee.
Berry fell to the ground, when Glas-
cock got to him he was trying to get
his pistol out, but he could not get it
out before Glascock was on him
and snatched it away from him, he
then asked Glascock to shoot him,
that he dill not want to live.
Glascock told him no; that he did
not want to kill him. he wanted him
to have justice. Just then Moore
came up,
What strikes us as strange, is, that
Berry, the chest man in Galloway
county," should be thus taken by
one man. Only last Sunday, when
Berry was in the hands of Audrain's
sheriff, we heard men in Galloway
county say that no 20 men could take
Berry, and that when Glascock went
out the first time, he did not want to
find Berry, &c. They seemed to take
pride in Berry's being a bully, and
then for Callaway's best man to run
at the ominous word .'halt!" The
tact of the business is, Berry is nc
coward, but he was taken at O disad'
vantage, and the persuasive influence
of q double barreled breech-loader il
the hands of a determined officer will
make even the boldest criminal trem'
Bile. Berry, after being caught, ever
begged the sheriff to shoot him; bu'
the sheriff being a humane man, de
clined to accede to his request. w
take great pride in the fact that on
sheriff cantured Berry.