Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

forth day came across snare set 10,
rabbits by some human hands. An in,
vestigation proved that it had been 10
use for some time, and had held several
victims, although empty at this time.
This must DO the work of tho outlaw,
since his presence on the mountain had
driven oil hunters away. Two hours
later and milo away I discovered O
snare from which partridge had lately
been taken. felt then that 1 was in
the neighborhood of the outlaws den,
but had to move slowly and exercise
the greatest vigilance. 1 built my fires
in ravincs and with tho least possible
smoke, and whenever night came down
crept under the pines and rolled N.Y.
sell In blanket. On tho fifth and
sixth days did not cover over two
miles of ground, and most of that dis
tance was covered on hands and knees.
On the evening of the sixth day had
10 descend the mountain to renew M
provisions Mt farm house, and what
was my chagrin to learn from a colorod
man that Flint had visited the place for
The same purpose only the night before.
lie gave me the directions taken by tho
outlaw, but when l reached the foot of
the mountain could go no further in
the darkness and had to camp down. I
was astir Mt dayli ght and Mt once made
my way TO the crest of the big hill, be.
lieving that Flint, having supplied him
self with provisions, would be quiet for
two or three days. Whether no did or
not hunted for him another week with
out finding further trace than third
snare he had set for game On the thir
teenth day my hunt came to an end in
singular manner.
was following up dry ravine, so
full of bushes and loose rocks TINT I
had to creep most of tho time, and
was resting under some very thick
bushes when heard movement on the
bank above. 1t might have been caused
by deer or bear, but felt pretty GER
tain that it was q man. lie was ON tbe
bank of the ravinc directly over my
head, and after minute or two heard
tho squcal of rabbit. 1t was Flint,
then, and he was taking the game from
snare. We could not sec each other.
but he had the advantage of being above
me. The bank was too steep to climb,
and 1 wns just turning to creep back to
spot where l could ascend when there
was sort OF crash above me, a sun.
pressed shout of alarm, and next in
slant earth, rocks and bushes we're
falling all about me- 1 sprang
up and as 1 did SO the spread
eagle form of a man struck the bushes
at my right and broke through
them with great crash. l made leap
to get out of the way, but the body had
scarcely come to n stop before 1 was Mt
hand. 1t was the outlaw, as 1 saw at n
glance. The fall had stunned him.
While he still clutchcd the rabbit in his
right hand his left arm was broken. I
lost no time in securing and iisarminr
him, and when he reused up, five min
utcs later, he had no show. He took it
out in cursing, however, and of all the
blood curdling oaths ever heard n man
use he capped the climax got him
about noon, and before night had him
down the mountain and delivered up to
legal authority. He resisted me vipor-
ously for the first hour, declaring
that he would die before he would nc.
company me, but after 1 had used
stout switch on him several times and
given him to understand that he would
be dragged if he refused to walk, he
was more tractablc. He was turned
over to the United States authorities.
arraigncd on six or seven charges of
murder, but convicted and hung on tho
first. l was not present when he was
swung off, but in his speech from the
scaffold he cursed me high and low and
left it as his dying request that his
friends would not rest until they had
taken my life.
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Tho Inl;nn Dlo--l.