Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-05
MARY SULLIVAN THE DES?EGADO.

In Caldwell County. Ky. there
lived Oh the lotions Of the Tread
water River two families, destined to
most terrible end, the CanpbrllS.
Reilly, j. t.. and Bud; and the Sni-
llvans, Tom and his sister Mary.
They We're considered nrIthrr better
nor worse than those about them.
They were ignorant and rather shift
| less. but so We're many others III the
neighborhood. Soon. however, the
country people round about began to
say very strange things about the
@lrl. Mary Sullivan. She was
bright. quick girl Of ~, with light
hair, light blue eyes. and IA little
above the medium III height No
man for miles about could out-lft
her With gun or pistol She was
dead shot. On horseback there
wasn't boy i'll the country who
could ride faster over rougher coun-
try, or who dared to commit half the
dare devil pranks that Mary con
stantly delighted in. She rode
horse like man Mary had lost all
sense Of girlish delicacy. The effect
of all this in quiet country neigh
borhood can hardly be imagined.
Mary Sullivan's name became the by
word for all that was infamous, and
the staid country matrons lulled
their babies ITO sleep with stories of
the horrible Mary and her midnight
rides and crimes Then rrlmor
turned to other things. Mary was
often seen with the Campbell boys,
once or twice she was seen with them
and her brother late at night, dash
ing ut her usual break neck speed
over the country roads.
About this time the most daring
robberies began to be committed in
the northern end of the county.
Farmers found their smoke houses
open night after night. Several
stores were broken into and robbed,
and, strange to say, no one knew
who committed the crime. One old
farmer began to talk very freely, say
ing he recognized Mary Sullivan at
the head of the Campbells breaking
into his smoke house. A day or so
afterward Mary
GALLoPED Up TO HIS HOUSE,
Called him out and asked him what
ha meant by saying what he did
''ld you see me and the Campbells
at your smoke house?" asked she, at
the same time pulling a big navy re
volver and showing it under his nose.
Tho oil man cfopnp,>roJ out en-, ,-n1
ogy, and was never afterward heard
to say word against the Campbells.
Among the most bitter denouncers of
the gang was an old man named
Felkers, who lived a few miles from
them on the Treadwater. One even
ing, just three years ago, two men,
afterward discovered to be Tom Sui
livan and Reilly Campbell, rode up
to the old man Felkers, took him
and his old wife out and beat them
severely. They then rode off. This
affair caused the most intense ex-
citement. A mob was hurriedly
formed and some forty men rode |
over to Campbells. Mary Sullivan
had in some way heard that they |
were coming some hours beforehand.
She and her brother Tom went over
to the little log hut of the Campbells |
and barricaded themselves. When |
the mob came up they demanded the
instant surrender of the whole gang.
Mary yelled out tauntingly: Come
and get us. you cowardly Dogs
Fire was opened by the mob, and the |
Campbells and Sullivans promptly |
returned it. After little they made |
it 80 hot for the mob, that it had to |
retire. The only one hurt in the |
melee was L. Sullivan, who was shot |
in the breast, but who soon recovered.
The gang became moro bold after |
this, and robbsries became more fire.
quent. At this time An event hap
pened which was destined to cause |
the entire destruction of tho band.
Mary Sullivan met Crockett Jenkins. |
The meeting itself was romantic
enough to merit its being told. Mary
was riding along the Trsadwater one
spring day two years ago, when she |
saw man on the other side prepar-
ing to come over. The water was
deep, the little river had been raised
by frequent rain and she yelled over
to him not to attempt to cross there |
He either did not hear her or paid
no attention, for he plunged the horse |
in. The current was too strong for
tho horse. and he soon threw his rider
off and tried to save himself. Then,
with his heavy winter clothes on.
Jenkins would most certainly have
been drowned but for Mary's dash
ing into the stream with her horse
and rescuing him at
THE PERIL OF HER LIFE.
She brought the man up to her
brother Toms to let him dry his
clothes. A mutual admiration soon
sprang up which quickly warmed into
love. From thut time on Mary Sui
livan and Crockett Jenkings We're
warm lovers. jenkins. who lived
some miles away, moved over to Sui
livan's, and the love of the two was
tho talk Of the county. From that
time on the gang had no more faith
ful follower than Crockett Jenkins.
About month ago, however, Crockett
tired of Mary and began paying his
attentions to another woman. Fer
some time Mary was ignorant of
what was going on, but when she
heard OF it her jealous hatred was
terrible. II will kill Crockett Jenk-
ins if he dares to betray me-" she had
said to more than ono. At length
the storm burst. One night about a
month ago, Mary accused Crockett of
his infidelity to her. He laughed at
her. She was too excited to get a
pistol. but sprang at his throat \
struggle foil ,wed, but Mary would
have strangled him then and there
but for interference. Crockett left
the house Some time before this
the band moved up from Treadwater
Bottom. and had hired a little gro
Gerry some four miles away on a pub
lie road leading to Princeton. A
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