The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-07-27
A COLORADO BANDIT.
The Man Who Kept People in a
Good Hu11lor White he Plum
dered Them.

!, The young Colorado bandit and STAG
( robber, Henry T. Burton, stretched Ilis fet
tered limbs for comfort upon "a bench in
: cell Of the Central station all Of yesterday
excepting when the police officials visite,
him, and chatted with his guard.
NV hat are you going to do with r1e, any
hoW?o he asked. fsJust tIink of llavns
TO drag this iron around. T,Te had tl1est
on forty-six hours" and he held uD tht
manacIes, which seemed formidable enough
to hobble Jumbo vito. ssI don't want tc
go to Auburn or Albany. want to be
somewhere where / can work. We al
hear Ia the west about your. eastern =peni.
tentiary and its human ways, and want
to get there. / might get pardoned some
day if behaved myself.
There is nothing in the convict's coun-
tenance to suggest yindictive nature.
Not even when he alluded to the SLAYER of
MS father, whom lle found and killed after
an eight years hunt, did he betray anv
nalevolence in his voice or manner. when
he related the tale of the stage-coacn load
OF passengers whom he frightened into
| surrender by means of dummy confeder-
ates posted behind al ambuscade, he laugh
ed as he added: E"Fhey didn't know was
alone. / blindfolded each one as he or she
came out. always try to keep everybody
r 7oA g.
loss IS easy as possible' -
The group outside of the bars Joined in
the merrlmelt provoked by the Iudierous
idea Of keeping people good-hun1ored
while they were being plundered. Pass
ing on TO other adventures, Burton said. in
answer to the chiefs question whether he
had ever seen the James boys: Yes, I
saw Jesse once, and IL was 4 funny meet
ing. | was quite young fellow then. and
had been doing souoe work Oh tho road in
texas. I stopped at q ranch near Waco. |
| noticed a welI-built man, who seemed to
eye.me closely. / made up-Iny mind that
he was an officer and was after me, In
the morning when [ went ont to the barn
to get my horse, this man was there, 100.
after his. He kept his eyes ON me and / |
saw him get his hand on his pistol. I felt |
queer then reached for my own, but he
got the drop on me. He snid, NO you
ion't, kind Of laughing like us he cover
ad tae with his weapon, bit / kept my
hand Oh my pistol I said Co him, you've
got it on ne, but I'In going TO fight for ii.
Well, We both saw that it4vould be a fight.
% we parleye1i, and ttjeniile asked ne who
was, and I asked him the same thing:
out | Waa afraid Of him, still thinking he
vas All officer. Then he said that Jack
Younger had told him about me. and chat
le was Jesse James. He was getting TO-
Eether lot OF fellows (ths was before the
aid on the train at Fort Worth) and he
wanted me TO join him badly, but would
lot go. [ afterwards found out who he (
vas. {
II became an expert shot with the pistol
iding around. generally fred off about
hundred cartridges day, but not at peo-
lie, you understand. When T was on
orseback and saw a bird on the wing OF
q animal going by I inst blazed away at
), and III that way got plenty Of practice
nd became good shot" e
Marshal Matthews, of Detroit, who S
uarded Burton OH his way to this citv. '
ad not received any instructions up to a t
ate hour lastnig nightconcerning the disposal I
the prisoner or aCvices that any steps Z
ad been taken to get over the dilemma 4
rising from Warden Cassidy's demurrer u
receiving Burton, because he had not t.
cen convicted in the United States Court v
this district. One Of the penirentiary Il
spectors, however, assured Chief Given tt
at he thought there would be no difficult y
in the way if the concurrence of the il
ldges Of the United States District Court 4
uld be obtained to an application or or n
I to have Burton admitted, as this would a
erconle the objection. Attorney-Gener- tt
Brewster is expected to reply to-day Oh
yorably TO the proposition to leave the g
alter to the Judges Philadelphia Times. th