The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-04-06
A MAN FROM DODGE.
WHAT HE REMEMBERS OF THE
WAYS OF "BiLLY THE KID"

WAY VT BILLY ne NiO.
Tbe Quickest Man with Weapon I'm the
Whole Southwest Was the Innocent
Looking Dare Devil the IIid-He Never
Missed.
There was look of great disgust on the
face of the man from Dodge the other day
when the reporter him, and he appeared
to be detected as well. 81 hev ben figurin' on
goin' back to Dodge" said he, "but that
scheme is busted; 1 see by the telegraph items
in the newspapers that the sloons is all closed
down there, and what is life with Twin fur
whur the sloons is all shet up9 But that
wasn't what | was gOin' to talk about was
readin' bout fellers that was handy with the
gun an how fast they could fan the hammer.
There was something about Pat CARROTS
KILN Billy the Kid. Now 1t happened that
was down that way when the Kid was killed
an know somethin' about it, an know, too.
that Pat didn't give him square show fe[
his life But then he'd a been a fool il he
had, cause Billy could outShoot any man in
New Mexico. The Kid was, an no mistake,
a holy terror. He was one of those strange
things you come across oncet in lifetime,
an while he was as smooth an pleasant a lit
tie Teller as yer could wish to 'soCiate with,
he filled Teller with sort o. awe-l think
that's the word. He like a snake
shinin' in the sun, so slick an so handsome, an
yet his touch meant death. He was slim an
light haired, an blue eyed, an his face was
sort o. pale; his upper teeth stuck out little
bit, an that made him look more innocent
than ever. You somehow amt afeared of q
fellow whose teeth sticks out in front. He
didn't weigh very much more than 40
pounds, an he pleasant companion; his
eyes was rather pleasant until he got mad,
an then they shot fire.
81 seen Billy kill two men, an he did the
job up clean. They never kicked, an they
had their lights put out in great shape. They
was cowboys, an they swore they'd kill the
Kid cause they'd heard so much about him.
That time ut least the Kid wasn't to blame.
He hadn't killed no relatives Of their'n. 1t
wasn't very fur FIN Socorro, which wasn't
much more'n village then, an we was in
camp when the Kid an another fellow come
ND. Now we wasn't oveTglad to see Billy
cause he had hard name; they said he'd kill
a man if he didn't happen to be stuck on the
color O. his hair an SIGH like. But we wasn't
goin' TO let on. That little devil was so sweet
on us that you'd thought butter would
been safe in his mouth an that made US
more uneasy than ever, though there was ten
o. us an only two o 'em, the Kid an the fell
Ter y Well, as was sayin', we was
eat ~, iii I'LL ~. fer it was after sun
lT'Al ollileI' W eulte-Jl 'T' Kid
Gown, when two fellers rode up.
had seen em, but he never let on an kept on
eatin' as material as If there wasn't nobody in
hundred miles that was goin' to hurt him.
THEY LET LOOSE.
"When the strangers got near enough TO sec
the faces O the fclleTS eatin', one o lem said,
There he is an without more sayin' they let
loose. Iuever saw anybody skin around so
lively as the Kid did; he skipped six or eight
feet an l thought sure he was hit cause I've
seen fellers do the same way when they had
bullet straight through the heart; but Billy
he wasn't teched. The fellers on horseback
let loose twicet an then Billy he up with his
gun-he had one o. the purtiest Winchesters
you ever laid your syes Oman fired twicet.
1t was a bullet for zach man an he brought
EN- both, each one through the heart. Billy's
gardner didn't seem 'ticularly nervous; he
at eatin' his supper all the time, an seemed
% think that the Kid could take care o. him
self. When Billy had killed the fellers he sat
down agin an finished his supper an then
rode away. As he an his pal was goin' Billy
says to US: I'm in hurry, or ID help you
bury those ducks We never found out who
they was, an we buried them then an therS,
an then went on some distance an camped
fer the night. We wasn't goin' to sleep so
near two dead men.
"Billy was a mighty queer lad; never
thought o. nothin' cept KILN. The only
thing to do was TO kill him. 1t wasn't no use
to put him in jail, for he'd break out an the
felers that put him there would have to
hustle around lively after that to keep out
the way O. bein' killed themselves. The thor
tiles captured him more'n once, but he allus
managed to get away, an each time he killed
somebody. Once he killed two deputy sher-
ifs who had him in charge by takin' the gun
Of one OF 'em away, an when the Kid got his
fingers anywhere near a gun there was bound
70 be a dead man not fur away. There
wasn't no man in New Mexico who could
shoot agin him with either a pistol or Win
chester, an he never missed. Talk about
Iannin' the hammerl Well, he could jest
make pistol talk, an when he was around
all the boys sung small, tell We. I wasn't
sorry to hear that he was killed; fact is, ]
Thought Billy had : sort o. grievance agin
me, an [ was looSilt out sharp that he didn't
plug hole in my carcass. Billy was d thief
an outlaw, but he was a sandy lad an
terror I'm wayback. I don't believe thu man
ived in New Mexico what wouldn't say tbat
he felt queer about his hreastbOne when Billy
was in town an filed up more or Less With
border co'Wle. "-ChicagO Trlb]Se.