The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-08-24

and estimation, exactly upon a level
with cowboys. outlaws and Kids.
His novelistic.. Excellency's bugIe had
scarcely rung truce when the widow OF
McSwain resolved TO prosecute the
slsyers of her husband and destroyers
of her home. She employed q LAWYER
named Chapman, of Las Vegas, who
went down into Lincoln county and
promptly began TO stir up all the old
strife. but was soon murdered by
man named Campbell and Others of
the opposite faction. When Governor
Wallace heard Of the death of Chap
man, he rose in all the might and
majesty of g little Territorial official
with tin ear, and went down int
Lincoln county. outlawed Turner and
bis posse and all other officers of the
law who had been fighting Chisum
and McSwain and the Kid and his
gang, had Turner and ten or twelve of
his posse put in irons, and had Colonel
Dudley arrested and relieved of his
command.
HOW TURNER LOST HIS BRIDE.
Twenty-one indictments were found
against Turner for murder, arson and
cattle stealing. He and his associates
lay in irons forty days and nights. en1
were then brought before the Court for
trial, the KID appearing as the princi-
pal wltLess against them. They were
acquitted, but Turner has been bars
raised from that day to this. by
Cd, said he last night, they have
had me indicted in every Court since.
and it has cost me $4,000 to stand them
off. besides all the annoyance and loss
OF time
On the morning of the 9th of Sep
TENDER, 1879, Turner was married, at .
hotel in the town of Lincoln, to a
young girl named Hattie Phillips, who
had cousin married to Surgeon APP
pei of the Ninth Cavalry. The same
evening Appel, with two companies
of negro troops, surrounded the hotel.
seized the bride, and carried her off.
claiming that she was only sixteen
yesrs old and minor. She was after
wards sent to Monroe, Michigan. and
placed in female seminary. where she
still is. She has an uncle living there.
Frederick Godfrey, who was formerly
Indian Agent at the Mescalero Agency,
in Lincoln county, and who took All
active part in spiriting her away. Her
mind has since been SO Influenced
against Turner that she recently APP
piled for divorce on the ground that
the marriage was illegal on account of
her minority. 1t was not so under the
laws of the Territory, but Turner al
mitted it to free her, and the divorce
was granted last month.
THE KID AND COL. DUDLEY.
After the acquittal of Turner and bis
men at the trial in Lincoln, the Kid,
on the advice of his friends, decided to
leave the country, but swors he would
kill Col Dudley before he went A
Court Martial or court of investiga-
tion as to Dudley's part in the fight of
June, 1879, was going on at Fort Stan
ton, in Lincoln county Judge Ira E
Leonard. formerly of Missouri. but now
of New Mexico, had been employed by
Mrs McSwain to prosecute the charges
against Col Dudley of being accessory
to the murder of Der husband and the
burning of her house. Judge Leonard,
at the time a resident of Las Vegas,
was accompanied to Fort Stanton by
John Mcpherson. Chief of Police at
Las Vegas. who had been warned by
the gamblers and thugs of that place to
leave on pain of death. Mcpherson
had been with Quantrell during the
war. and was himself desperate. Re-
turning to Las Vegas some time after
ward, the roughs carried out their
threats and killed him As he and
| Leonard were sitting in their room ~
Fort Stanton one night, shortly after
their arrival. they heard u tap on the
window, Upon opening the shutter
the Kid stepped into the room and an
nounced that he had come to end the
trial Of Dudley by killing him. With
much difficulty they succeeded in dis
suading him from attempting to execute
his bloody purpose. He then mounted
his horse aud struck out for the Staked
Plains, where he embarked in the bus
mess OF cattle stealing at Wholesale,
making his headquarters about Fort
Sumner. and finding purchasers for his
stolen herds among men whose names
ere by no means obscure in Territorial
history and affairs.
Having a difficulty with his old en-
ployer, Chisum, in regard to wages due
him for various services, be sworc VEN
geance against him and his, and from
that time on Chisum's herds and herds
ers suffered. How many men he killed,
how many cattle he stole, how many
deeds of daring deviltry and cruelty be
perpetrated. will probably never be
known until the record books of dam-
nation are opened, and cowboys and
Congressman. lawmakers and law
breakers. Presidents, pirates Govern
ors and thugs are summoned to judg-
ment.
TWO MURDERS IN THIRTY SECONDS.
During the early part of the present
year Deputy Sheriff Pat Garrett, of
Lincoln county. captured the Kid and
took him tn Mesills, where he was tried
and sentenced to be hanged in the town
of Lincoln. He was taken To Lincoln,
ironed and under a strong guard. Soon
after reaching the town he managed to
knock DeP1ty Sheriff Bell in the head
with his handouts. and before he could
recover from the stunning effects Of the
blow, the Kid seized his pistol and shot
him dead. Deputy United States Mar.
shal Robert Ohlinger, who had been
one of the Turner posse ia 1879, hearing
the shot. came running. gun in hand,
to Bells assistance. The Kid. armed