Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-24
if Lon had been able to get his rifle
As he said that.

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words could well do, the resolution and
determination Of the man. He claimed
that the killing of the Colemans was in
self-defense-that it was life for life
and that they booked for themselves
He said the Williams broth.-s never
fired on any man except in sef.d efense
In regard to their escape after the kill
ing, Ed told how they staid in the woods
and finally found their way to the
river and crossed in skihf. and con.
| tinued:
''It was certain death behind and
liberty in front, and l would have
rowed the boat if it had torn my hand
off to have done it. | knew that
OUR PuRsUERs
would look for us up in the woods or
up and dowr the river, so | determin-
ed to strike out at once for the prairies
where there was more room to shoot.
The longest time we were without food
was eighty-five hours. For the first
twenty-four hours of that time we suf-
fered intensely, but after that the pangs
of hunger gradually died away. We
had no friends in the woods to help us.
% has been 50 often stated"
Maxwell said, in illustration of his
antipathy to murder, that one of his
pursuers in the Eau Gale woods was so
near he could have put bullet into
him in a minute; "but v1d see |
DIDN'T WANT TO COMMIT A MURDER,
so | lay down and let him 60 by"
When asked if he was not afraid to
go back to Menominee, he gave his
questioner a look full in the face and
said 81 do not fear anything. | am
prepared for the worst. / have to die
some time. We all have to do that.
and as long as one is prepared it mat
tiers little when death comes. Ii have
to die l will do it like man."
He said he had made no arrange
ments looking toward his defense,
neither had he engaged counsel. He
talked tike man who had
NERvED HIMSELF FOR THE WORST
and was prepared to meet his fate.
There was little of the braggadoico
manner about him, although be is evil
IDENTITY vain of his skill in the use of
firearms. While starting out for lib
erty he was armed with two Winches-
ter rifles and three revolvers Thus
equipped he feared no odds when on
the prairie, and would not have been
caught when he vas had nota surprise
party sprung on him. He aud Lon
were bound for the home of their pa
rents near Iowa, Neb., where they
were captured. Ed says that they
never went south at all, and denies that
he and his partner" as he calls Lon,
were
THE PARTIES WHO KILLED A SHERIFF.,
and wounded and routed his posse
near st. Louis, in October. He hasn't
seen his father and mother in ten years,
but both of them were living at last ac-
counts. Ed speaks fluently and in an
earnest manner. Daring the entire
interview Maxwell did not utter an
oath or vulgar word. When Coleman,
holding up the handouts, said, Here,
Ed, it's time to get ready to go.' Ed
put down the cup of coffee he was rails
ing to his lips, suffered
THE "DARBIEs"
to be put on his wrists, which are sore
from the wounds received in the strug-
gle at the time of his capture, and the
party was then arranged in order, filed
through the staring crowds in the de-
pot, were followed by scores to the
train. got car, and were soon being
whrled away to Menominee, Ed hav-
ing nonchalantly babe his new-made
acquaintance good-by, with the addi-
tional remark that he would see them
again.
Ed Coleman succeeded in getting a
letter Maxwell wrote to his father, evil
IDENTIFY intended for Ions perusal ad-
vising Lon not to trust himself to Bill
Thompson, step-father to Ions late
wife, as he would give him away.
THE MURDERoUs MAXWELL HAS HIS NECK
STRETCHED.
Special Telegram to Madison Democrat
DURAND, Wis, Nov. 19.-Ed Max
well had his examination at 2 p. NJ, to-
day. He plead not guilty, and waved
an examination. On leaving the court
room the officers were overpowered,
though they made brave resistance.
The prisoner was taken by hundred
determined men from all parts of the
county, and in less than three minutes
was hanging from convenient limb
near the court house. Our citizens de-
precate the action of the mob, but were
powerless to resist; the matter was evil
IDENTITY well arranged and slillfully
carried out. After the hanging the
crowd dispersed in good order and our
usually quiet village shows no signs of
the fearful excitemert that prevailed
during the day.