The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-29
MORE MIDDLETON MATTER.
Hazen the Wounded Man Talks.

| Hazen the wounded Man alkS.
The narrative of the affair as told by
the Omaha papers and as furnished by
Hazen, who arrived in Omaha on Sat
urday, suffering considerably from his
wounds, agrees substantially with that
contained in the LEADER of Sunday
morning, excepting that, he it is who
claims to have fred the shot that
wounded Middleton.
The following are extracts from his
| statement:
Then Doc wheeled with his revolver
| in his hand and saw that trouble was
up, and got off my horse, and as was
getting off he said:
Cd d-n you, I'll give it to you in
the guts.''
He shot and it took me in the shoul-
der. Then he swung round behind my
horse. Just then had dropped my
revolver out of my breast as 1 got off
and Doc was standing over it.
Then shot at him with my Win
chester, intending to take him here
(pointing to his heart, but struck him
little to the right of the navel, and
the ball came out little over his right
hip. He reeled and fell but said to
me:
"You gave me my death, Cd d-n
you, now I'll give you yours.''
Then,as he said that, he fired and the
shot took in my neck and 1 reeled and
kicked around and raised up and could
see Doc blazing away. began to load
my Winchester and Lew, who had been
ahead, said:
"We'll have too get on our horses,
Hazen, to get out of this. I'm afraid
you're shot,
Lykens came out of the bush, cussing
and swearing and saying his gun would
not go off. He said to me:
"You can't fight and I'll take your
pistol.''
He got it and started off. However,
L got my pistol back:
"How did Lykens happen to be Sc
creted, you ask?'' Doc has a good
many men and we always calculated to
have third man as reserve and had
him secreted-packed him in barrels
and other ways. Before daylight that
morning we had placed him about 15
rods from the road to lie hid. l was to
bring him his breakfast and throw it
to certain tree, where he would creep
for it. Some boys were driving COWS
and came close to him, so he moved
out and down the road, and 1 suppose
had no idea that he was so close.
The last saw of Llemellyn he was
going off toward the Laughing Water,
for water, without his horse.
Mr
porter about the charge that Llewellyn
had run off and left him and Lykins in
the lurch, as had been gathered from
some words dropped by Lykins when
in this city.
"Llewellyn never ran off from me-"
exclaimed Mr.. Hazen, land when you
hear it 1 want you to put it down as
blasted lie. He did not leave till fell
like dead man,
He was not certain about the number
of men that Doc had, but said Llewellyn
had better count of them. He saw
the two outlaws that were killed. off
the crazy fellow (Lykins) shot at all, he
shot Black George. 1 wouldn't won
der if Lew shot the other himself. l
heard him blazing away at something
when he got across the run.''
At the close of the interview he
shook hands with the reporters, and
added that Lykins might have an ex-
planation of his conduct; he wanted to
do him justice.
The annexed letter accounts for the
whereabouts of Llewellyn:
FIT. HARTsUFF, July 90.
e. r. Bierbo,oer. Deputy U. s. Mar
shdl, Omaha:
DEAR SIR:-I arrived at this point
yesterday. On Sunday last we had
fight with Doc Middleton and eight of
his gang. We met them on the Mo
brara river bottom, ten miles below the
mouth of the Long Pine. My man
Hazen was killed, and expect Lykens.
from Cheyenne, was also killed or bad
ly wounded, as 1 could see nothing of
him after the fight ended.
The last / saw of Doc Middleton he
was running down through the brush
with his hand to his side. His horse
ran past me. 1 received slight scratch
of wound. We killed Black George,
a Texan, and another outlaw whose
name l do not know.
We start this morning for the Mo-
brara river with detail of twenty
men from this post. / want to see
what has been done with HaZen and
learn Lykins' fate. will be in Omaha
in about eight days;
Yours truly,
W. II. II. LLEwELLYN.
Now it will be in order for Lykens
to clear away the insinuationS offered