Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-08-25

brought before tho court for trial, tho Kid
appearing as the principal witness against
them. They were all acquitted, but Tur-
ner has been harassed FROM that day to this.
"By Cd" said he last night, "tboy have
had mo indicted 10 every court since, and
it has cost mo six thousand dollars to staud
them off, besides all the annoyance and loss
of time"
On the morning Of the 9th Of Sep-
tember, 1879, Turner was married, at
hotel in the town of Lincoln, to young
girl named Hattie Phillips, who had oou
sin married to Surgeon Appel of the Ninth
Cavalry The samc evening Appel, with
two companies of ucgro troops, surrounded
the hotel, seized the bride, and carried her
off, claiming that she was only sixteen years
old and minor. She waa afterward sent
to Monroe, Michigan, and pluccd 10 fe-
male seminary, where she stil is. She has
an unolc living there, Frederick O. Godfrey,
who was formerly Indian Agent at tho
Mesoalero Agency, in Lincoln County, and
who took an active part in spiri,ing her
away. Her mind has since been SO influ-
onccd against Turner that she recently up.
piled for divorce on the ground that the
marriage was illegal on account Of her mi.
nority 1t was not 80 under the law of tho
Territory, but Turner admitted it to free
her, apd the divorce was granted last
month.
THE KID AND coll DUDLEY.
After the acquittal Of Turner and his
men at the trial in Lincoln, the Kid, op
the advice Of his friends, decided to leave
the country, but swore he would kill Col
Dudley before he went. A court martial,
part in the fight of Juno, 1879, was going
on at Fort Stanton, in Lincoln County.
Judge Ira Il. Leonard, formerly of Mis-
souri,, but now of New Mexico, had been
employed by Mrs. NloSwain to prosecute
the charges against Col. Dudley of being
accessory to the murder of her husband
aud tho burning of her house. Judge
Leonard, at tho time resident of Las
Vcgos. was accompanied to Fort Stanton by
John Mcpherson, Chief Of Police of Las
Vegas, who had been warned by the gam-
blers and thugs of that place to leave on
pain OF death. Mcpherson had bean with
Quantrell during the war and was himself
u dcaperado. Returning to Las Vegas
some time afterward, the roughs carried out
their threats and killed him. AS lie and
Leonard were sitting in their room at Fort
Stanton one night, shortly after their ar
rival, they heard a tap on the window
Upon opening the shutter the Kid stepped
come to end the trial of Dudley by killing
him. With much difficulty they succeed
ed in dissuading him flom attempting to
execute his bloody purpose. IIe then
mounted his horao and struck out for the
Staked Plains, where be embarked in the
business of cattle stealing at wholesale,
making his headquarters at Fort Sumner
and fiuding purchasers for his stolen herds
among men whose names are by no means
obscure in territorial history and aff,rs.
Having difficulty with his old employer,
Chisum, in regard to wages duo him for
various services, he swote vengeance against
him and his, and from that time on CHS
um's herds and herders suffered. How
many men he killed, how many cattle ho
stole, how many deeds Of daring devitry
and cruelty he perpetra.ed, will probably
never be known until the record books of
damnation are opened, and cowboys and
Congressman, lawmakers and Iawbrcakers,
Presidents, pirates, Governors, and thugs
are summoned to judgment.
Two MURDERS IN Thirty sEooNDs.
During the early part of the present
year Deputy Sheriff Pat Garrett of Linoolb
County captured the Kid and took him to
Messilla, where he was tried and sentenced
to be hanged in the town of Lincoln. He
was taken to Linooln, ironed and put under
a strong guard Soon after reaching the
town he managed to knock Deputy Sheriff
Bell in the head with his handouts, and
before lie could recover from the stunning
effect of the blow, tho Kid seized his pistol
and shot him dead. Deputy United States
Robert Ohlinger, who had been one of the
Turner posse in 1879, hearing the shot,
came running. gun in hand, to Bells assis-
tancc. Tho Kid, armed with Bells shot
gun and pistol, saw Ohlinger coming, and
cooly hailed him with "Hello, Bob!"
Ohlinger paused second, and it cost him
his life; tho Kid poured charge of buck
shot into his heart, killing him instantly
two murders 10 half minute. The young
monster then stepped out on the portico Of
the old house in which the dead men
had been guarding him, and defed tho
whole town. lie made one man knock his
irons of, and covering another with his
death dealing shot gun, ordered him to
saddle horse that was standing in the