Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-01
BELLE AND HER fIsrous.
The Lady Competent to Qsc them on
Reporters and Detectives.
F,,a.a he Van york III


Prom the Nan York "a
FORT SMITH, ARK, June 20.-Parties
just in from Younger's Bend, bn the Can
adian, say that Belle Starr, the outlaws
friend, who was here recently, us highly
dncensed at the publication OAan inter
view with her, and that she tpreatens
vengeance upon the young man VINO
wrote her up. She is busy just nav get
ting a new pair of reviewers into Working
order, and cannot spare time to make any
visits, but she says she Will have month
or six weeks TO look around after awhile,
and that II she then comes across the tel
low who wrote the letter about Der she
will take his ears home to ornament her
sidebOard.
To one of these men. Larkln Lareaux,
she said: "lye lodged newspaper men
all my life, and when | was talking 10
that little sneaking, veliOw-haUed chap
at the Fort / rad no mo idea that he
was a reporter han you have that am.
Ii got some things straight and some
things he didn't; but that isn't the point.
The point that l make is that | don't talk
for newspapers. Two years ago two
chaps came into IOuuger's Bend 10 see
me, and they would have been there yet,
only took pity on them. Tnev had been
sent by somebody else-an edltoT VINO
didn't care what became Of thcm-and 50
could have had them murdered at t1e
drop OF 1.-THE hat. Three of nv friends were
in the house that night, and ttey came
pretty near opening ca the reporters any
way. thinking they were detectives. Now,
If YOU see ANY OF those fellows, you lust
Tell them tuat some day they VIII get
hurt " men they come here. l don't bother
any body. and I won't be b)tuered.'
LaresuX described her practice with
her pistols, winch. be SAID, was perfect.
she dued a tree rot moIe IMAM six inches
in diameter full OF lead at 200 yards. and
then putting An old hat on "A tree Al about
the same distance, she turned hex oack To-
il aud wheeled with revolver In each
hand, aud put both bullets through tue
hat.
81 haven't quite got the hang Of the
guns yet" she sand. after periOrmius this
feat They are new To me, aud they
wOrS a lltle hard. bat when | get 10
know them better ] VIII be ready for any
tbiUg that comes along
As LareauN turned to 90, she said :
'IBeYe's two kinds Of men thai dOn'tnave
any business here IN 1Ouuger's Bend,
ard they are detectives and reporters.
The detectives have hung around here for
several years trying TO nab my husband.
but he don't 20 ABOUND with brass band,
aud The reporters have been trying about
as long to get a history OF my life. ia be
in big business giving up 10 them what
Pm going To make a fortune out OF one OF
these days. wouldn't II ! suppose there
must be some pretty decent men IN
the States somewhere. bu, the KIND
they send down here make me groan
Only Last April l marched one lel
low out Of here on tiptoe, ami only had
my Winchester with me. lie must have
been hanAiug around here for some time
because he gave tine signal and | a.,
swered him. As soon as / put eyes on
him raised my rife and gave MIN shot
Down he dropped, begging me notio xii
him. Then you get right up and Glide,
SAYS |, aud be did. | followed him clear
down to the neck, firing Jall over hi+
head every few rods Just to see hin jump
don't know who be was bat probably ht
was some newspaper man who wanted t.
spend the evening with M. ou can JUS
tell them all that l amt giving parties
tnIs YEA uru not get very near her house
and consequently knows nothing as 10 tn,
situation there. He asked her IL any o
the boys we're around, and she cautiousl
said she knew where some OF them were
After LareauX had left her, and mad gone
a little ways, ne heard two shrlll aud pc
cuhar whistles, followed by another, ant
at the same instant Belle called TO him
Turning he saw her beckoEing, cutting
as ne said, not an unInteresJing figure a,
she stood IN gay blouse suit, her ARM
strapped on her little person, with a clus
Ter OF trees for "A background. lie re
turned TO her side, aud sue, taking him BY
the shoulder, placed him in an attitude 50
that his face Was turned toward a dense
thicket.
"Stand there" she said, "and dom
look around you"
With this she pushed the cleaning bar
rel OF a revolver oven each shoulder and
close to his cheeks, and then she gave
three low and yet distinct whistles A
few minutes later LareauX heard foot
steps, but be looked straight ahead until
they died out in tie distance when the
w. -sls were removed and theic owner
sad m an ordinary tone:
u Gu csu 20 now. / was afraid you'd
meet somebody that you wouldn't care 10
know"
1t was one of her outlaws" said La
reauX, ''and she was quite right. don't
want to know any of them. But I'm
thinking that il the marshals would 20
down that way now In force they woulC
make a haul"