Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-15

muscles, and at other times, when oc-
casion required, he was, straight and
alert, his foot was fret as that Of adeer,
his arms, body, and legs as elastic and
hard As tempered steel.
Among other gifts Peace included
that of influencing women. He had at
one time half dozen Of these devoted
TO his interests, and dumb in regard to
his unlawful operations, and this not
outstanding that he was understood,
wholly unattractive in either figure or
face, and surly and dictatorial in tenn
per. II was through his devotion to the
sex that the murder of Dyson came
about.
Dyson had married an American
woman in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866.
She was attractive in appearance, and
living with her husband at Darnall,
near Sheffield, in the summer of 1876,
became acquainted with Peace, who was
there carrying on his burglariOus bust
ness in the quiet and religious manner
that has been mentioned. From all ac-
counts, neither she nor her husband
were partial to him, but she was infiu-
enced by him sufficiently to allow her
self frequently to be in his society. and
she attended fairs with him, and once
the two were taken together in phi to-
graph, where the burglar appears in a
suit of almost clerical cut, leaning famil-
iarly upon the back of his companions
chair =------------s---------
AT last Dyson's dislike of the man
grew to that pitch that he forbade him
bis house. Mrs. Dyson acquainted
Peace with her husbands decision. who
thereupoE, although he did not venture
10 enter the house again, loitered about
at all sorts Of times and seasons, lying
in wait to intercept the woman. Once
he caught her as she came to the door,
and exhibiting a revolver threatened to
shoot both her and her husband A
complaint was lodged against Peace for
that, but when the police searched for
him he was not to be found. Shortly
afterward, fearing iurther annoyance,
Dyson and his wife removed from OAR
nall and went 10 live at Bannercross,
but on the very day that they entered
their new house Mrs. Dyson met Peace
in the street, and he again threatened
her, saying that he would follow and
annoy herself and her husband wherever
they went That was in the latter part
of October, and for month after Mrs.
Dyson saw Peace occasionally, who
threatened whenever he met her.
On the 29th of October Mrs. Dyson at
about O'Clock in the evening for some
purpose went out Of the house into the
back yard. She carried lantern, and
having effected what she went to do,
was about TO re-enter the house, when
she was startled by the appearance OF
Peace, who started out from the dark
ness Immediately in front of her.
"Stop," be cried, in a suppressed voice,
ssor / fire." and she saw the CLEAN of a
pistol in the light of the lantern.
Screaming, she dropped the lantern, and
evadin.... the outstretched hand of the
desperate. darted through the door of
little clubhouse. Dyson, who was in
the house, heard the screams of his wife,
and came running out. Hearing him,
the woman ventured TO look ont from
her place of concealment, when she saw
Peace walking out through the yard
gate into the street, and her husband
following him. Sne started to 90 at
ter, when Peace wheeled about and fired
twice. The first shot missed its mark
and lodged in an adjacent wall, but the
second struck Dyson full in the fore
head, and he fell dead at his wife's feet.
Peace hesitated, as if about to fire again,
but then voices were heard ap-
preaching, and the burglar, turning,
leaped the garden wall and disappeared
in an adjoining field.
Charles Peace after that could not be
found. A reward of fl00 was offered
for his arrest, and the most rigorous
search was made for him throughout
the kingdom, but without result.
Two years later the police OF London
were made alert by series of skillful
burgiaries At Blackheath, and finally the