The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-03-25
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A recent letter from Abilene, Texas,
to the New York SIN says Maud Ray
nor, the woman despcrado is in Jail in
this city for assault She is wanted in a
dozen places, and had several complaints
against her before the one on which she is
now held was lodged She lived here
quietly until woman who was Jealous
of her revealed her identity to the police.
AS soon as she found that she was an OBJ
Ject OF suspicion she attacked her enemy
with club and almost beat her brains
out. Maud Raynor has been a notorious
character ~ this State, the Indian Ter
ritory and Aansas for several years. She
gained the title of woman desperado bv
reason Of her reoklessness of human life
and her fondness for fights. She goes
armed to the teeth, shoots with unerrinp
slm, and Is quite as much at home with a
bowie knife or club as with a revolver.
She has managed 10 escape arrest hither-
to by reason of the fact that all manner
OF stories concerning her have been in
circulation, and her actual appearance is
very different from the idea which the
people generally have formed of her.
She IS OF compact frame, and about me-
ulum height, with graceful carriage.
her features are small, her eyes steel
gray, and her hair long and abundant
In Jail to-day she was raving because her
knives.
II suppose I'll never see them again. -
she said. ''When you get into one of
these calabashes they always help them.
selves to what you've got, and whether
you're sent up or not they keep all that
they steal. I'll bet I've furnished half
the sheIitfs in Texas and Kansas with
good weapons in the last five wears.
They don't get money enough together
at one time to buy such things, but they
know just enough to pinch them when
they get chance. played it on a de-
tective up here in Panhandle once. He
mad been following me for about month,
ana nnally when he got me he took two
guns and three knives away from me. I
saw MS eyes bung out as he looked at
them, and says to him:
youg" ~ "OH
He pretended that he didn't care
anything about the weapons and showed
~Ine some of his old frecracker pistols
and wanted me to admire them. l told
him one of my guns was worth a bao
full of his, and after getting him little
excited grabbed one of my weapons to
snow 1t to him. / pointed several of the
good points, and then turning it on him,
| said:
9 I want to see your heels right lively
now
'He thought was fooling for a second,
but when the pistol clicked he knew
it was business. Then he backed off. |
and wanted to trade with me. l had his |
guns and mine, too, but l told him I |
wasn't trading. Just to hurry him up a
little | sent bullet mighty close to his
ear, and moment later as he was edging
oil put another one near enough to his |
other ear to SINCE his hair. Such run
ming you never saw. l watched him out |
OF sight. Then l took his guns and !.
threw them in the river. wouldn't have 7
been found with them on me.n
Maud Raynor went through the Indian
Territory once with about a regiment of
Indians and white men on her trail She /
had been up at ranch on the Arkansas
river, where great many desperate char
acters We're congregated, and in shoot
ing atfray in which she took a promi
nent part the bartender was killed.
Every man swore that the woman was
the guilty party, and she recklessly ad-
mltted 1t, though it is probable she was
not the real offender. Some friends of
the murdered man came along just then,
and organized to lynch her. Getting
WIND OF the programme, she stole a
horse and set out for Kansas. the men
following. Several Indians ioined the
pursulng party at various places until
finally there were about a hundred men
on her trail. She managed to elude them
for several days, and coming finally
upon band of chivalrous cow
boys, she made them believe she was a
prosecuted innocent. Her new-found
friends promptly agreed to defend her
against all comers, and when her pursu
ers came in sight they were met bv a
volley which brought them to a stand.
In the course of three or four DAYS they
concluded to abandon the search.
The exploit OF which she is proudest
occurred year.o more agoin the Indian
Territory. She had been up in Kansas
ON the warpath, and making her way
back to Texas had fallen in with rough
crowd Of plainsmen. One of these was
a man named Dutton. whom she had
known many years before In the course
OF an evening passed at ranch on the
cattle trail she had quarrel with this
fellow, and after some harsh words he
rushed at her with a knife. She was
too quick for him. He had hardly cot
within striking distance before she pat
bullet through his heart AS he Jumped
In the air and fell back dead his com
rades made rush at the woman, and
would have finished her then and there
II one of the men had not taken her
part in mild sort OF way. AS they
stopped to parley, she made this propo.
5ition
I'm fight the whole pack of you, one
at time. l killed that man. and Pm
glad of it. / ought to have done it years
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