Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-11
DEADwooD DEspERADoEs.
Some of the PleasAres Of Life In the Bla
Hitls-A Chicago Murderer.

DEADWOOD DESPERADOEo.
Some of the Pleasures Of life In the Black
HULA Chicago Murderer.
Catching murderers in the Black Hills is
at present sensational dramatic perform
ance. They have had several exhibitions of
this kind lately, one following close upon
another at Deadwood. A young man named
William Gay shot another young fellow
named Forbes, who had sent an obnoxious
note to Gays wife. The answer to this note
was swift murder. Then one Durham had |
claim against Chris. Hoffman, and Hoffman
wouldn't pay the bill. Durham endeavored
to force settlement. He shot Hoffman
down, and, surrounded by crowd of people,
he made sure thing of it by pressing his
pistol on the breast of the fallen man and
putting another shot through his body. He
then, pistol in hand, walked through the
crowd and wandered deliberately into the
surrounding hills. The crowd pursued him
muttering vengeance. He told them that he
would shoot down the first man who at
tempted to arrest him. After some time q
chosen leader of the mob called upon Durham
to throw up his hands or be shot down in
his tracks. lie threw up his hands, but he
still held his pistol in his right. He was
ordered to drop the pistol, and not doing it
Immediately he received shot. The pistol
dropped and he fell. He was then picked up
and brought back to town, where the sheriff
took charge of him and put him in Jail. He
was not fatally wounded. The crowd held
meeting outside of the log Jail to discuss the
propriety of taking Durham out and hanging
him as bloody example. He listened to
the discussion through the chinks in the logs.
When the question was put to vote it was
decided to try the law first, and so Durham
was saved for future occasion, and he will
be cured up for the scaffold. The latest case
was the most exciting. Charles E. Lee and
George w. Bell had come to Deadwood by
stage coach about the same time, and we're
friends. In a week Lee disappeared. He
was found dead, with a pistol-ball hole in
the back of his head, at place formerly
called White Rocks, which was then rechris-
tened Dead Mans Point. He had on a pair
of overalls, and kid glove was on his left
hand. The other hand was bare. One of
his pockets was turned out. In the other
were found glove fastener and the remain
ing glove among some other things. The
body was taken to town. His friend Bell
was gone. It was then remembered by some
body that Bell had been trying to sell OF
pledge gold watch, inscribed: "Presented
to Charles E. Lee on his 21st birthday, Oct.
81, 1875. From his father A man stepped
forward and showed the watch, saying that
he had bought it from young man who
represented himself to be Charles E. Lee
He knew where the young man was, little
way out of town, and the sheriff and his as
sistants went after him. In the meantime
crowd gathered and consulted, and resolved
to make Lee an example at all events. They
watched for the return of the sheriff from
the hills. Presently a man on horseback
followed by covered wagon, appeared or
the hillside approaching the town. On they
came, tearing down the hill, and the horse
man proved to be the sheriff. It was sup
posed the wagon contained Bell. The Grove
surrounded the wagon and stopped it's pro
) gress. At word from the sheriff the drive
dashed his horses into fierce gallop and th,
wagon glistened with protruding rifles as i
went whirling through the surging crowd tt
the jail The prisoner was got safely insid
and the mob again assembled around tn
painting horses. The Jail was full of armed
men guarding the prisoner, and SO anothe
Deadwood mob was baffled. Bell protest
his innocence, and says he did not know
what had become of Lee until he was or
rested, charged with numbering him. H
!; !; was known to have had the watch in his pos
session before Lees disappearance, and say
Lee gave it to him to sell in order to rails
money enough for them to return to tn
States. It was found that the pistol-sho
might have been fred by Lees own I'm
gloved hand into the back of his head, but
is not likely he would have hunted that spo
among the rocks and that region of his sku
:, for suicide. 1t is thought that Bell is a Min
: nesota boy, the son of minister who is in
far country as a missionary, and that his req
: : name is Cox. Bell was held without bal
It was subsequently ascertained that Charlie
E. Lee had been several years in the emplo
of Field, Letter & Co., Chicago, and boz
: from them testimonials of good characte
His father is William L. Lee of Chicago
well-known and wealthy. Since his inca
ceration the young man has been visited b
: two mysterious yelled women, who, viii
= they said nothing, seemed to recognize hin
y but there was no sentiment of love in the
attitude towards the prisoner. Still the
y make mystery.