The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-21
A DESPERATE OUTLAW.

He Pursuit u Capture By . N0fvys
Cool.Hesdo6 Detective.
A Canadian officer at Calgary, N. VT,
tells Q New York Post correspondents this
story OF An adventure with q desperate
whisky-tradcr: IL have had some close
calls with whisky-traders in my time, and
still" he added, meditatively, 81 never had
TO shoot n VET After \ moments
pause he continued: "Onc Of the most des-
perate men I ever arrested for having
WHISKY in his possession was Blank. It was
In the fall of ISL. lie had q four-in-hond'
load Of whisky, gin and brandy that he "a
running across, and he and his partner
| were both riding in the Hagon, Blank hav-
Ing nosaddle-horse. This. cargo was all ho'
| possessed in the world, and he knew that 70
he was caught he could not pay . fine Of
800. for this was his second offcnsc, and, Of
course his four horses, wagon and liquor
would Be confiscatcd. WbGn I first caught,
sight e. them they were about three miles.
on. n / at once rode towards them to 500
who they were. As soon a. they saw that
] was after them they whipped their horses
up to q g0llOp. but my horse wa fresh and
. fast runner, and before they had gone far
It was plain to see that I was gaining fast
on them AS soon rs Blaak saw this he
stopped, cut of the leaders, and mounting
q Of them, ga.lopcd off; but by this time
] was within half a milo Of tie wagon.
"Whcn l rode up alongside / saw at .
glance that it contained whisky, and also
that the man who remained with it was not
its owner. / diSmOunted and made him my
prisoner. telling him to rcrain there with
the wagon until l returned 'LOOk here,
stranger said he. don't follow that man,
he WON'T DO taken alive. He is armed with
. Winchester and a Colts -evolvcr, and to
prove 20 you that ne won't be taken alive,
I'll tell you who it is. It's HANK
"'That's the very man l Yant,' said /. 1,
jumped on my horse and PUT the spurs to
him and rode after Blank. l caught up to
him about half q mile further on in q coulee,
wherehe had dismountcd AID was trying to
hide. I gallopcd up to him so fast. and:
pullediup SO quiet, that, in stepping back to-
avoid my horse. he caught his heel on the
ground and fell. Before ne could regain
his feet / had dismounted and covered him
with my revolver. He sprang to his feet
and tried to draw his. l LAID my hand -
his shoulder. telling him. that he was my
prisoner, ct the same ime holding my re-
volveF close to his head. BY this time no
had his partly drawn, and, seeing this, I
pressed the trigger until the hammcr Of
my self cocker was as far back as it could
60 without swapping. He told me to shoOs
and.be cursed, MT At tho same time sprang
forward, 50 that tho barrel OF my pistol
caught him on the temple, tearing . deep
cash back into his scalp about six inches
hnR. This partly stunned him, but in two
or three seconds he recovered.
His revolver vas . Colts = single.
action, and therefore it REQUIRED To- b
socked before it could be fired. By this
Gme it was drawn. aad he attemptcdto cock
il. Ieaught hold Of the hand in which he
held it and turned il 70 a side, and at the
same time told him that I would count ten,
and II he did not drop his pistol when tho
number was counted I would blow out his
brains. He called out: BLOW away
soanted up to nine, and pressed the trigger
% that the hammer rose, and on seeing this
be dropped his weapon and gave himself
up. I got HIM mounted % his horse and
brought him hack to the wagon. Every
thing vas As 1 had left 1t. but the prisoner
who had been there was gone, and I did not
blame him for going.
"Of all the men / ever arrested this Wa
one Of the mast desperate. I'll had given
him tho least chance he would have shot
least excited I should have shot hmm. But
Am not Of IN excitable nature, and besides
Inevef want to take away that which I can
never return"
"Wel, yes" said L n think . GOOD
many men would havo lost their heads
under such circumstances and pulled tho
trigger"
~ suppose come might hsve done 90"
said Simmons, - he scratched . match TO
light his pipe. which had gone out while he
was talking. Then be added thoughtonl1y:
what puzzled ne most Is that when he
ran with such force asainst my yevolver
' when my finger ,sas pressed against tho
Heincer II didn't "a of and shooA him.