The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-06-13
"coMANcHE JACKS" RECORD.
In His Lifetime He Has Shot Thirty-one
Men and Helped Hang Seventeen.

In His Lifetime He Has shot Inirty-one
Men and Helped Hang Seventeen.
In this western city on the streets
and in the hotel lobbies every day one
meets with many of the most noted
western characters of the day. Bret
Harte would here find many subjects
for wild western history that would
throw some of his previous creations
of fiction into the shade. The Indian
territory is near by, where there Is
employed large number of brave and
hardy men as deputy United States
marshals who appear periodically In
the largest city most convenient to
their working place, SO that Wichita
is often called upon to entertain vls1-
tors of almost as much notorlety as
BILLY the Kid" or Jesse James.
Chief among this number IS Deputy
United States Marshal Jack Stillwell,
now stationed at Fort Reno, l. L.
Jack, or rather "Comanche Jack" as
he is Familiarity known, is handsome
looking chap, with laughing blue
eye, curly hair slightly tinged with
gray, for this noted borderman Is just
| so years of age, about feet 10 or IL
| inches in height, and of massive build.
He is also the acknowledged crack
pistol shot Of the west, and oven In
the days of that Kansas cyclone known
as "Wild BILL who never missed q
shot, Jack Stillwell ranked high.
The number of men killed by Jack
is variously estimated at from twenty
five to thirty-one, and 1T IS known
that in addition he has aided In send
ing seventeen other men over the val.
ley of death by means of the hang
mans moose. Even in this country
where 'killers" are to be met with
every day, "Comanche Jack" Stillwel
is a curiosity, and is pointed out tc
strangers with strange mixture O.
awe and pride
BY this it must not be understood
that this gallant deputy United State
marshal is a desperate who goe
about glorying in his bloody work. Oh
the contrary, he is rather retiring II
his disposition and only when he ha
been drinking boasts of his deeds
When desperate work is to be done or
bad desperate is to be taken Stillwel
is always the man who is detailed +
accomplish it. The territory despera
does and cut throats all know and fea
the intrepid officer, and are aware Q
the fact that if he goes after them h
, will get them, dead or alive. Man
| are the traps that have been laid I
kill him, but he is as cunning as he
brave, and has always managed I
evade the snares that would hay
, caused tho death of less accomplishe
plainsman. :,
Brought up as he was among th
: Comanche Indians, Jack has nevt
! exercised the right of franchise, an
i at the age of so has never cast vot
. He speaks the Comanche and sewers
Q other Indian languages as well as Il
o Indians do themselves, and during Il
, sitting of the United States court
!: this city it is always an amusing sigl
! to sec the Indians, dressed In the
. primitive way, following the gre
I i'White Chief" as they call JAG
8 about the streets. He calls them h
q ''menagerie" and says they are !
. . of dirty, thieving wretches for Il
!, most part, as well as the most accor
plished liars in the world. .-Wichi
n (Kan.) Cor. st. Louis Post Dispatch.