The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-12
a a WOMAN DESPERATE.
A Dead Shot With Revolver And Very
Fond of Fight.


Fond of Fight.
AB1L1NE, TEX. Jan. 30-Maud Ray
nor, the woman desperado, 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
object of suspicion she attacked her
enemy with club and almost beat her
brains out. Maud Raynor has been
notorious character in this State, the
Indian Territory and Kansas for several
years. She gained the title Of woman
desperate by reason of her recklessness oi
human life and her fondness for fights,
She goes armed to the teeth, shoots with
unerring aim, and is quite as much at
home with a bowie knife or club as
with a revolver. 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 appearance is very different from
the idea which the people generally have
formed of her. She is of compact frame
and about medium height, with a grace
full carriage. Her features are small, her
eyes steel gray, and Der hair long and
abundant. In Jail to-day she was raving
because her keepers had taken away her
pistols and knives. :.
II suppose I'll never see them again, -
she said. "When you get into one of
these calabushes they always help them
selves to what you've got, and whether
you're sent up or not they keep all they
steal. I'll 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. played iton detective up
here in the Panhandle once. he had
been following me for about a month,
and finally when he got me he took two
guns and three knives away from me. 1
saw his eyes hung out ss he looked at
them, and I says to him:
"You'll be well heeled now won't
you?
: "He pretended that he didn't care
anything about the weapons, and showed
me some of his old frecracker pistols,
and wanted me to admire them. told
him one of my guns was worth bag full
of hi and after getting him little
excited l grabbed one of my weapons to
show tito him. 1 pointed out several of
the good points, and then turning it on
him I said:
"'I want to see your heels right lively
now.'
"He thought I was fooling for a second,
but when the pistols clicked he knew it
was business. Then he backed off, and
wanted to trade with me. had his
guns and mine, too, but l told him /
wasn't trading. Just to hurry him up q
little I sent bullet mighty close to his
ear, and moment later as he was edging
off put another one near enough to his
other ear to SINCE his hair. Such run
ming you never saw. watchsd him out
of sight. Then / took his guns and
threw them into the river. l wouldn't
have been found dead with them on me" !"
Maud Raynol went through the Indian
Territory once with about regiment of
Indians and white men on her trail.
She had been up at g. ranch on the
Arkansas river, where a great many
desperate characters were congregated,
and in a shooting ARRAY in which she
took prominent part the bartender was
killed. Every man swore that the NO
man was the guilty party, and she reck-
lessly admitted it, 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
horse, and set out for Kansas, the men
following. Several Indians joined the
pursuing party at various places, until
finally there were about hundred men
on her trail. She managed to clue them
for several days, and coming finally upon
band of chiyalrous cowboys, she made
them believe she was prosecuted inno-
cent. Her new found friends promptly
agreed to defend her against all corners,
and when her pursuers came in sig mt
they were met by 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
occurred 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 plaiDsmeu. One of these was
man named Dutton whom she bad
known many years before. In the course
of an evening passed at ranch on the
cattle trail, she had a quarrel with this
fellow, and after some harsh words be
rushed at her with knife. She was too
quick for him.. He had hardly got in
striking distance before she put bullet
through b his heart. As he jumped in the
air and fell back dead his comrades made
rush at the woman, and would have
finished her then and there if one OF the
men had not taken her part in mild
sort of way. AS they stopped to par
lev, she made this proposition:
"I'll fight the whole pack of you, one
at a time. l killed that man, aud I'm
glad of it. l ought to have done ityears
ago."
One man went out with her, and the
two stepped off twenty PAGES, turned aud
fired. The man got a bullet in his
shoulder, and wanted to quit. The wo,
man was unhurt. Standing there reso-
lutely she called on the others for vic
tim, but no one stirred. Then she taunted
them, and iually, 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 you are going
with me ?"
They all agreed to 20 but two, and to