The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1888-01-04
COWBOY AVENGERS.
No Mercy Shown the Kelly Fien cs.
The Infamous Family Unearthed by q
Mere Accident.
Fire Used to Force the Wretches From
Their Lair.
The Old Woman Shot and the Vile Son
Dragged to Death.


Wichita, Kan, Dec. 30.-Charles
Duncan, a well to do cattleu1an OF
southwest Kansas, who has many
acquaintances and friends in this city
who arrived to day from Oak City,
No-Man's-Land, tell the last chapter
concerning three of the fiendish Kel
ly family as follows: Il left Oak
City Wednesday night and the town
is jubilant over late Developments
and believe if the people had had
fireworks they .,ould have sent up
signals of rejoycing. About two
hours before left they got the news
that Bill Kelly and his sister and
mother were dead and it did not take
ten minutes for every man,
woman and child in town to know it.
From the day the Kelly horror was
unearthed squads of avengers were
golloping over the plains looking for
the Kelly gang, as they were called
down there. Wednesday morning q
party of seven left town for due west,
with provisions for three days, ex-
pecting to take in a curcuit of 100
miles. Going but few miles they
turned south, and in few hours the
wind commenced coming from the
r south, cold and it blew furiously.
They decided they were about a.
likely to find the Kellys by going
north as south, and turned north.
It got colder, and at last, about 3
o'clock in the afternoon, they came
to . ravine which offered partial pro-
!. lection, and decided to camp there
for the night.
While getting the matter arranged
= one ofthe men looking up the ravine
q saw dugout with wagon standing
J. about one hundred feet from it. II.
told the boys to build fire and stay
there and he would go up to tn,
dugout and enquire for the desired
parties-the Kelly family. Whe1
he was about hundred yards ava.
h he was greeted with q shot which h
reported came near him. He fell t.
= the ground and the report called tn
attention of the others and they i'm
= mediately caught ON to the situation
.. and were in a moment on horses TO
the scene of the battle. They mad
5, a big circle around the dugout ant
saw that door facing south, in tn
Ar direction of their intended camp wa
the only entrance. Getting off to
n. side they commenced firing at tn
den and attracted the occupants al
Is Is tention in that way, and Metcalf, tn
= man who had first discovered tn
). dugout got a chance to run down tn
in ravine and get his horse. When b
or returned he disclosed a plan ths
proved successful. Three men wer
8. to go to the dugout from the mort
and dig hole in the top. The tas
= was extremely hazardous and for
moment there was hesitation in d,
, Gliding, but the gang could be caugf
no other way and they went at
with determination. The Kelley
= for as the parties proved to be, con
menced firing up at them, but In
very short time an entrace in the to
- was made and one of the boys ws
so badly shot he died from his il
jurles. He was carried back an
left on the prairie dead.
Z, BURNING OUT THE FIENps.
m Il was now dark and it was unsa1
- to wait till morning. The wage
was partially loaded with hay. The
Ve set it on fire and ran it on top of Il
1d dugont and in that way burned the
ep out. The boys took position sou'
:. - of the scene to watch the outcornir
We of the gang.
THE wife, Mrs. Kelly, was Il