Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-20
REDDT. THE ROAD-AGENT.
The Former Terrier of the Black Hill
Finally En- Houtc to the GaliowS.

Among the guests at the Palmer
House yesterday, says the Chicago In
ter OcedA, was Mr.. Seth Bullock. Sher-
| if Of Lawrence county. Dakota. head
quarters at Deadwood. the liveliest town
between the Missouri and breakfast.
The object of his visit East is quite i'm
portant and interesting. He is after one
of the gentlemen road-agents. the Colts
revolver fellows that made the Sidney,
Neb., route to the Black Hills terror
| to peaceful travellers Il year ago. The
road was bowling wilderness for 4
while when "Reddy," alias Bob Nchim-
ME, WORKED" the stages along the line.
But he came to the end of his tether,
and probably will come to the end Of the
tether Of Lawrence county's Sheriff be-
fore the winters SHOWS disappear.
'Reddy' has turned up in Ohio once
more, and, in day or two. will be in the
custody of Sheriff Bullock, who has
come through from Deadwood to wait
on the pleasure of the slayer Of Johnnie
Slaughter, young man whom Mckim-
ME ruthlessly murdered This occurred
about year ago. 'Reddy' left the
country soon after the homicide, as the
weather there was made altogether too
sultry for the health Of that individual.
He skipped The Sheriff didn't give up
the search, however. Rewards to the
amount of about $500 were offered for
"Reddy's' apprehension, but he seemed
to be living on creased lightning, for he
skipped out and wandered all the way
from the Black Hills until he got down
into his old haunts in Ohio. He went
back to the same place where, when he
was sixteen. he suddenly disappeared
from, and turned up as a private in the
army Then he ran a bloody road for
awhile down in the Southwest. deserving
the army, killing his man, becoming
Utah brigand, and ended by having fiji
teen years sentence pronounced upon
him in the Mormon Garden of Eden.
But they couldn't hold him there, and
he squeezed out and was once more on
the war-path A couple Of years ago he
was with the gang of cut-throats that
terrorizcd the Black Hills for awhile
, His career OF crime was again marked
! with murder, when he killed the son of
Mr.. Slaughter. a we'll known citizen Of
Cheyenne. After this he left the road
and was not captured until last spring
when Sheriff Bullock traced him to his
old haunts. in Highland county. Ohio
Reddy" had married respectable
young woman there, and was quite a re-
constructed road-agent. OF course. the
community sympathized with him, and,
naturally enough. looked upon Bullock
as the only road agent who had ever i'll
vaded this quiet community. The re-
QUESTION for ''Reddy" from the Govern
or of Dakota was all right but the ease,
after being first decided by a local
court, was taken to the Supreme Court,
which occasioned delay Of over forty
days ''Reddy was jailed and was get
ting fat, when he was supplied with
arms and FILINGS by those who aided him
on the outside He broke jail one night,
and, in escaping, shot one of his keepers.
The road agent was himself again. But
the old desire to Get back to the scene
of some of his exploits brought him to
Highland county, and he was once more
taken. Sheriff Bullock left last evening
for Ohio, and will in ten days be on his
way to the Black Hills with 'Reddy,'
the scourge of the road Sheriff Bull
lock is the same official who captured
the notorious Laughing Sam, one Of
the worst characters that infested the
hills country; also Dan Blackburn, and
whole column Of rascals who, year
ago, were the pirates of the plains, and
whose taking off would be lucky
stroke for any country they might hap
pen in on.