The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-09-30
TIsraass TIsraass ,iy Of the Plains.
A WoMAN'DRESSED AS 4 COWBOY
MEETS AND KILLS HER FALSE
LOVER.

The writer met on The streets G
Cheyenne few days ago an oil
friend, last seen on the souther
cattle trail. Old times were talk
ed over. Our friend still follow
ed the Texas long horns, an.
many scenes of the past days wer
recalled and many trail adven
lures recounted. In the cours,
of the tolds Red River crossin;
was mentioned, and our frieni
said he must tell of romanti,
tragedy marking the crossing o
the stream by the herd he wa
with this season. In the outfi,
starting to gather the cattle foI
the trail in the early spring was
young fellow about whom hung E
mystery. He had been with the
outfit since the fall before, and
such was his reserve that SLY
months had not succeeded i'm max
ing him any better known to his
companions than when he joined
them. He was slight and deli
cate in appearance to girlishpess,
yet his duty was always perform
ed as well as that OF the most
stalwart rider. In the spring,
when the activity of the cattle
gathering began, this young fell
low, to whom the boys had given
the sobriquet of Lady" became
restless. An eager anxiety 10 see
every stranger encountered on
the range seemed to have taken
complete possession of him. He
seemed TO know by intuition
when a stranger was about, and
was certain sooner or later to get
a sight of him. Lady" carried
a good Winchester habitually.
and knew exactly how to use it.
1t soon became recognized fact
IN the outfit that the young fell
low was looking for some one,
and the wild cowboys watched
eagerly for the denounement.-I
1t dld not come until the herd
had been gathered and reached
the Red River crossing. The
night the outfit camped on the
banks of the red stream there
rode into the camp a stranger, |
looking for Work. He was a stal,
wart, sun-burned fellow, appar-
emily about thirty years of age. |
as the forman arose from his sup
per to meet the new conner, there
came the rapid beat of hoofs. A
horse dashed up to the group
around the supper fire. a girlish
form leaped to The ground, the
freight shone Oh the barrel of a
Ieveled Winchester as it covered
The stranger, and a voice clear
and stern was heard: "Make
your peace with your God at once.
James Saunders. 1t is I. Ella
Morrow, who speaks to you" A
speli-bound silence endured Tor
a seconds space and then the re-
port rang out and James Saund-l
ers pitched headlong from his
horse, shot through the heart by ,
Lady" the woman he had de-
serted. Scarcely had the smoke
Wreaths fioated upward, when
another report came and "Lady'
had taken her own life. On the :
person of the girl, who had so
long braved the hard life of the
frontier for the purpose of taking !
vengeance on her false lover. was ,
found a letter. This told in pal :
thetic terms the story of her
wrongs. Up to her seventeenth 9
three years before the
date of the tragedy, she had lived
a happy and beloved daughter
amid the granite hills of New
Hampshire. On the seventeenth d,
birthday there came a young d
stranger TO her home. He was |
handsome, accomplished and y
Teaching the winter I
term of the district school, Ella S
was one of his pupils, and the
close companionship in which j
hey were thrown developed love s
On her part. 1t was the old story s.
fhen came desertlon and the Sc "
;ret departure of the girl from her Ii
home to aFenge her wrongs. She u
lad traced her betrayer 10 The
texas frontier, and knew that if ri
he only had the patience to wait
ong enough she must meet him. G.
der task completed, she no long Ii
T had any desire TO live. p
Reverently the rough riders, p
Fho had so long known her as N
omrade, dug for Lady deep e'
rave on the spot witnessing her dl
engeance and laid her therein. lu
he body Of the seducer was pi
flung in a shallow hole re
nd the next morning two lonely bt
raves were left Oh the banks of Ill
he Red River. al
Ii,
Prof. Proctor consles us by say W
lg that earthquakes are assur- pe
noes that the earth is not near th
cath; that hundreds OF thou
ands of years Will still pass be-
)ra She end is seen in Tho Sfa.6y Il.