The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-11
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prisoner in the l!ou>cri Correction "ho'
|i.Neg tE01hE T. :. ..EaE ihst::; hlI,hh wass
for year Or more !" shnrcT IN L"H,E
dangers AVID SWrt, ses..s The Two n't''-
isnett ;ht eXccutc,T >Vpe oi I'll" o",t'rNl
|, saad .Ae!y sue s IL 1888
CAPTURE was something nlArVo."NS. II
the. i;,.l Of 1861 thc; stripped a t"''n !"
A.iz,i.:. and robbed eight passengers.
pur>ui, WIS ,pa'lsby thirteen Z n, ral
the party came upon the T"A'' agents
while .ti,oy were seated .on,tIn GROUND
dividing their plumber. a complete
circle was formed around Ii" par, h"'
with the arms Captured from the stage
coach they drove the men over hall a
mile and put them to rout.
In the same year, one day. when the
pair uese.ridinS ,lon : tht h'.hx ~ bout
forty miles from Fort Smith, they were
suddenly attacked by y force OF about
forty soldiers, herders and ranchmcn.
Their horses went down at the iirst vol
lev, but the two men, shooting right and
lett handed, produced such confusion
that escape into the bushes was an easy
matter. In this affair Dandy jim got
two bullets through hi. fhat G;md i FAKE
across the left shoulder, while EeI'oy
had a charm al his watch-chain shot
away and two bullet holes in his cloth
ing
A month later The pail rode into 4
rancho in the Indian Territory and asked
for dinner. While at the table Il posse
of nearly twenty men, surro!nlcd the
house, captured Tie oula wa. horses and
demanded the surrender OF the men
themselves. The house had but one
room, lighted by one window and en-
tered by 4 single door. While jim
guaxAs4 w. door Lskqy. taYl tbs viz.
dow. With a cup of coffee in one hand
and a recover in The other he Would fire
a shot and then take q sip, having no
/ more fear. afaIn Ius Of stone. a.Uhe
fight lasted upwards of two hours, and
= ended by the posse retreating aud Civ
4 inc the outlaws a clear road TO escape.
In 1868 the two men planned the
| plumber of q Texas railroad train. Each
was armed with two rcvolvers, and at
ten 'b'N1ck at night they built 4 fire on
the track in an uufrequented spot. The
calculation was that the train would
come to ( Sop 1t sight Of Vie fire, and
while Jim mounted the engine and took
care Of the engineer and fireman Leroy
was to 20 through the passenger
coaches. They knew it was u train
carrying at least 80 passengers, with q
probability of half the men being armed,
bus the one n,.:! lad planned to take all
the change; a,ain,t him. The engineer
saw The hrt tihi "a ptctedsa trick, and
) instead Of shutting off steam, he put
on more, and dashed the burning brands
clear over the smokestack as he rushed
his train out Of danger No fewer than
. five men, outside of this instance, have
: tackled such 4 JOB a> train-robbing. but
.. these two were going through the whole
, business along, and they nigh have
rraped q rich harvest for al that is
known to the contrary. Both Lel'oy
and Jim have stopped stages when
alone, and made from five to eight per.
sons get down and submit to robbery
Later photographic news from Del
Norte. Colo, describes the lynch!ng Of
, lie Roy and a companion named Potter