The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-09

less fellow fell lifeless across the
| threshold.
| But though Billy had slain his two
guardians by his unparalleled ef-
frontery and his wonderful prompt
ness IN taking instant advantage OF
the situation, much yet remained to
be done before he was in any degree
safe. Darling out into the inn-yard
he called to the trembling hostler to
bring an axe; and placing, first his
yet manacied feet, and next his
hands upon wooden horseback
that CHANGED to be lying in the yard,
he babe him strike off the connect
ing chains Considering that re-
volver with four shots still left in it
was being held close to his ear all
this time, one cannot wonder at his
prompt obedience. While the axe
strokes were resounding through the
inn-y yard, and the neighbors were be-
ginning to question one another as
to the cause of the two shots, Billy
had, with that remarkable presence
of mind which seemed never to leave
him even in the most desperate cir
cumstances, calmly formed and ma
tured his plans. SADDLE me that
"pinto' (Anglice-''palnted, ''spot-
ted') mustang there and do it quick
er'than you ever did before in your
life" were Billy's instructions to the
negro, as the latter was smashing the
iron links that connected the bandits
hands and feet.-No sooner said,
than done. A rattle of hoofs, as the
hostler galloped the wiry mustang in
to the yard, a clinking of Winchester
gun barrels and cartridge belts as
Billy vaulted into the saddle, the RI
Aes belonging to his late captors
grasped hrmly-one in each hand =
confused murmuring sound of
cries and CALCULATIONS, quickly swell
ing into a loud shouting, as the
crowd about the inn and in the
streets near by discovered the corpses
and grasped the thrilling situation,-
and Billy the Kid was of, -clatter-
ing down the village street with a
wild huzza. But look: a crowd of
armed men suddenly appear in front
of him: they will cut him off, if he
attempts to. escape that way. Quickly
now the "pinto" mustang stops
sharply in his tracks, at the proper
touch of his riders reins; Billy knew
his horse, and had not chosen him at
random Called upon instantly to
surrender by the ever increasing
crowd, the bandits answer was a
sharp wheeling of his horse, heading
him up the street, turning in his
saddle and dexterous pointing Of
the two deadly Winchesters at the
crowd, with gently waving motion
which seemed to every man in that
assembly, las many afterwards ex-
planned it, to exactly cover his indi-
vidual head or heart. And now, as
the mustang started quietly up the
street towards the first side street
which opened into the main one,
Billy was heard to cry out, while the
two hollow tubes he held against
each shoulder seemed to look into
every eye in the crowd, GIVE twenty
four shots here; the first man of you
as moves a finger to aim his gun at
me--well, you know what'll happen
to him, boys And such was the
effect of his astounding bravado, and
of his we'll known skill as an abso-
lutely deadly marksman, that not y
hand moved, a rifle was raised
till the little "plnto's' trot had put
about one hundred yards between
the dramatis persona. Then, with
an Indian yell and sudden twisting
of his 1.-the body down below the
mustangs neck, Billy changed his
hitherto slow retreat into a gallop at
breakneck speed, Then at last, a
shower of bullets rained around him,
most Of them from the excited
throng below, and some from those
more careful of their personal safety
who had lurked in side streets wher
Billy had first been stopped by the
crowd. waiting to get a sure shot al