The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-19

men and dozsa bloodhounds were after
him, was due to his remarkable knowledge
OF woodcraTt and the aid IF his friends in
those woods. He knew the great northern
WILDERNESS as well rs an East Water street
nackman knows the streets Of Milwaukee.
mat he had some hiding place in the woods
IS regarded as certain, but all efforts TO
pump MIN as to the location of the spot
have proven futile. When close pressed he
would go TO 1t, and doubtless friends brC uyht
him provisions while he was secreted there.
Once wnen Sheriff Foley of Gogebic pur-
sued him with bloodhounds, he wa1ed down
a creek for a distance of three miles, and
thus put the bloodhounds off the scent.
1T was a good thing You did not find
me, he has sin said to the sheriff. ''If
| you had, you would h ave become box OF
cold meat, or else you would have had my
corpse to carry TO town. One of US would
| have died"
Investigation has thus far failed to dis
cover deflnl ely who took prov lSions into
tue woods to the robber, but it is a fact that
the family of the girl to whom Holzhay
! was attached was kept under almost con-
| slant surveillance during tie last few weeks
that be was at large. Detective Hartman,
OF the Central Company, who went to
Shawaao few DAYS ago to look up Holz-
hays connections, says that the girl is a
| sort OF dashing Wild Western Queen, who
can handle rifle like ar expert, having
| acq lired the use of firearms under t. g
| tuition of II olzlay. Her sister can shoot as
w-1 as herself. They live in a log cabin in
the woods with their parents. Their father
IS well known in that part If the country as
formerly reckless character. Once he
went to Shawano and attempted to run
the town. d. II. Pulcifer was the mayor
and subjected the belligerent fellow to
heroic treatment. Meeting him in the
street he knocked him down aud nearly
choked the life out of him. The mother of
the two girls was one Of the quartet of
/ you & women who settled in the community
when it was a wild settle nent of few l g
| houses. They were known as the Robin
horze girls.
HolZlays parents do not live in this
country. When he came to this country at
| the age OF 10, seven years ago, he lived for
a while at Fort Howard with his uncle,
| Chris Schwartz, well-to-do German, but
did not stay ere long, going to the home
of his uncle, Oscar Schwartz, a halloween
at Fulclfer. There. up to two years ago,
| his principal occupation seems to have bee /
to read dime novels, and it is said that he
read $50 of them, most of them being
! found in a pile in his room at his uucle's
after he took to robbing trains
and coaches. Two years ago he went
to Montana and became a cowboy, his am
blciol seemingly running entirely in the
1 uI SSOAOu VI beCOLultS lEOutloT nero or
| outlaw. When he came back he said little
about his experience, but there were stories
afoat Tat he killed a ma / in Montana and
fed. At any rate it was observed when he
! returned to Shawano that he would never
sit with his back to a door, and around
the camp fire he always took a position
where he could command view of every
man in the party. He had never acted in
| that manner before
Those who have seen the juvenile Jesse
James. includi G the authorizes at Besse-
mer, have eome to the conclusion that he
is crazy on the subject of dime-novel hero
ism, having read so much trash Of that sort
that his mind has become affected by the
tales of adventure. He says that he turned
robber more for the fun of the thing than
the money there was in it, All that he re-
grets is that he was taken alive.
II wouldn', mind said he few DAYS
ago, ''to be shot dead, a I'd wouldn't dread
being ly che rs much as l do being i'm
| prisoned. have but one wish and that is
to have my hands fres and a revolver in
each Of them. [ would never be taken
alive again, l can tell yoI. If ever l get
out the first thing I'll d. will be to kill the
men who captured me at Republic. II |
could kill them | would die haDuy.n