Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-10
4 CHECKERED CAREER.
The Ups and Down; Of a Gresns
County, Pa, Boy.
Reyisiting His Early Home for the fir.t
Time in Twenty-Five Years.
His Exploits.

passed through Wheeling yesterday, en- route
for Greene county, Pa, his old home, where
he has not been for twenty years. Mr.. hall
has had twenty years experience with the
roughs and cowboys Of the border, and
has established a reputation as a nervy,
fearless ran, who never shrank from the
performance of his duty, no matter the
odds or the dangers that confronted him.
In certain Of the border towns he has &C
quired the sobriquet of Red Hall" the
mere mention of the title creating a deadly
hatred and wholesome fear in the minds
and hearts Of
EVERY HUSTLER M HORSE-TmEF
who breads arrest. He has been a detective
for sixteen years and in that time was never
known to shirk his duty. Previous to his
following his present line Of business he
was q member of one Of the famous bands
of rangers, which have 30 long defended the
lives and properly Of the csttlemen of the
Texas ranges from incursions by Indians
and Mexican r~ustlers. Mr.. Hall while,
serving in this command, early established
a reputation for his daring riding and
deadly Workmanship. He served during
the civil war in McMullen' rangers, a body
of Federal troopers that aided materially,
by their gallant action, IN restoring
THE STARS n STRIPES
to this historic soil. Mr.. Hall has arrested
more noted evildoers than any other mai
in the State of Texas, He has had num-
berless hand-to-hapd encounters and bears
the scars on his body Of q dozen desperate
conflicts with border desperadoes, in each
of which he was successful in downing his
man. An instance of his nerve is shown
in the following incident.
Thre enoted desperadoes, who were wanted
on several charges, rode into Fort Worth
where Hall happened to be at the
time. A friend of the outlaws
gave them notice of the detectives
presence. Fearing to encounter their re-
doubted foe, the desperedoes started at once
for the Territory, REINFORCED by several
companions, all heavily armed. Hall dis
covered their fight Just after they had left
and by hard riding succeeded in overhaul
ing them within a few miles of the State
line. This extraordinary mar drew his
gun and, facing the crowd Of. desperate
men. partly by threats and part
ly by persuasion, succeeded III
ARREsTING II PRISONERS,
and so frightened their companions b.
threats of having them arrested on thu
charge Of carrying concealed weapons tina
they ever surrendered the very Winchester
rifles they carried across their shoulders
Mr.. Hall also carries a scar on the left side
of his neck. made by a ball from the re
volver of Ben Mccullough the. noteo
Texas desperate, who was killed severa
years ago in a fatal duel with a companion
at a variety theatre in San Antonio, Tex
HFsvEttempted to arrest Mccullough al
fort Worth, where he was
PAINTING TIE TOWN REL
in true border style, ~gaIloping up and down
the streets on a pony and shooting at every
head he saw at a window. Hall challenged
the wild rider to halt, bat received for an
answer q leaden bulIet in his throat. he
staggered and fell, but rising to his feet
tumbled Mccullough out OF his saddle with
a shot in the hip. Both men were confined
to their beds for several months, but finally
got on their feet again. The episode
checked Mccullough in his reckless career
for a while, but soon after he became as
wild and daring as ever. This desperado's
career from the beginning of his border ex.
p~erience to
HIS TRAGIC FINAL
at the muzzle of a comrades pistol, would,
if faithfully recited, page with the mirscu-
lous adventures Of the lurid heroes Of Nun
roe's ten.cent histories. Mr.. Hall is a me-
dunn sized man, apparently about forty-iVe
years Of age. He is quiet and intelligent
looking, and despite his brazed countenance
and dark penetrating eye, the last man q
stranger would ever pick out as 8
border hero. Mr.. Hall has been a residen'
of Southern and Western Texas for twenty
FIVE years, having left home at the age o.
twenty to seek his fortune in the far West
During all this time he has never hearo
from his relatives and does not know
whether or not his parents or any of his
former friends are residing at or near the ole
homestead he has not visited for so man.
years.