The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-05
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Maud ~ nrr, the woman de9eradr, II
in jnil il Anstin, Texas, for assault, She
lived here quietly ua,I! . woman who was
ica on 6 her rev>l.ra her identity TO the
pa.ice IS soon as she found she was an
object of suspicion she attacked her enemy
with club and almost beat her brains
out. Maud kaynor he's bcen a notorious
character in this State, the Indian Terri
tory and Kan AS for several years. She
gained the title of woman desperate by
reason of her rtcalessness of human life
and her fondness for fights. She goes
armed to the teeth, shoots with unerring
aim, and is quite as much to home with
bowie knife or club as she Is with re-
volver. She has managed to escape arrest
hitherto by reason of the fact that all
manner of stories concerning her have
been in circulation, and her actual appear
ance is very different from the idea which
the people formed of her She is Of compact
frame and about medium height, with a
graceful carriage. Her features are small,
her eyes steel gray, and her Far long and
abundant, In Jail to-day she was raving
because her keepers had taken away her
pistols and knives.
81 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 they
stsa. III bet I've furnished half the
sheriffs in Texas and Kansas with good
weapons in the last five years. 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
a chance. I played it ON detective up
here in the Panhandle once. He had been
following me for about month, and
finally when he got me he took two guns
and three knives away from me- I saw his
eyes hung out as he looked at them, and
says to him:
You'll he well heeled now, won't you 2"
"IIe pretended he didn't hear anything
about the weapons, and showed me some
of his old firecracker pistols. and wanted
me to admire them. told him one Of my
guns was worth bag full of his, and after
getting him little excited grabbed one
of my weapons to show it to him. l
D, lated out several of the good points,
and then tu.iiia 1t on him said:
~ 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 | had his guns, and
mine, too, hut told him wasn't trading.
Just to hurry him up little sent bull
let mighty close to his ear, and a moment
later as he was edgiug Off put another
one near enough to his other ear to SINCE
his hair Such running you never saw. I
watched him out of sight Then | took
his guns and threw them in the river.
wouldn't have been found dead with them
Oh me-"
Maud Raynor went through the Indian
Territory once with about regiment of
Indians and white nien on her trail She
had been up at II ran"h on the Arkansas
River where great many desperate char
acters were conGregated, PAD in Il shooting
airray, in which she tCO& prominent
part the bartender was killed. Every
man swore that the woman was the guilty
party, and she recklcssly admitted it,
though it is probable she was not the real
offender. Some friends If 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 joined
the pursuing party ut various places, until
finally there were about a hundred men
on her trail. She managed to clude them
for several days, and coming finally upon
a band Of chivalrous cowboys. she made
them believe she was Q prosecuted inno-
cent. Her new-found friends promptly
agreed to defend her against all corners,
and when her pursuers came in sight they
were met by a volley which brought them
to stand. In the course of three or four
days they concluded to abandon the
search.
The exploit of which she is proudest oc-
CURED q year or more ago in 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 man named
button, whom she had known many years
before In the course of an evening passed
at a ranch OH the cattle trail, she had a
quarrel with this fellow, and after some
harsh words he rushed a. her with knife.
She was too qui, k for him. He had hardly
got in striking distance before she put a
bullet through his heart. AS he Jumped
in the air and fell back dead his comrades
made a rush ut the woman, and would
have finished her tn, n and there if one of
the men had not taken her part in mild
sort of way. AS they stopped to parley,
she made this proposition:
I'm fight the whole pack of you, one at
time. killed that mhn, an Pm glad of
It. ought to have done it years ago"
One man went out with her and the two
stepped off twenty PAGES, turned and fired.
The man got bullet In his shoulder, and
wanted to quit. The woman was uuhurt.
Standing there resolutely she called OH the
others for victim, but leo one stirred.
Then she tainted them, aud finally, when
she found that they were not disposed to
annoy her further, she said:
Now Pm going to Texas, and want an
escort. How many Of yon are going with
mel"
They all agreed to GO bat two, and to
"You're just the ones that want to GO
|, with me, and you've got to go, too"
The others rather enjoyed the sport She
never took her pistols off them for min
ute. They got her horse out Of the corral
mounted their own. and at her command
rode on in front of her. When she had
driven them ten or fifteen miles she made
them turn back, while she rode on toward
the south.
Unless the woman is convicted for the
assault committed by her in this city the
other day, it is not believed that she will
be punished for any Of her other offenscs.
A wonderful Old Woman.
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