Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-21

h.. bid;nq place, but from some remarks
dropped once when he had liquor IN nun
it was supposed to be cave IN 'ne
rocks and to be approached only win
,bo Greatest difficulty. If l met hiY
abroad it would be entirely by accident,
- carefully avoided crossing any bare
,,locoa where he might espy me from MS
lookout. About mid-forenoon on tue
forth day came across a snare set ior
rabbits by some human hands. AN in-
vcs,ioation proved that il had been IN
rso for some time, and had held several
victims, although empty at TINS unne'
This must be the work OF the outlaw,
since his presence on the mountain nau
dr;vcp all hunters away. Two hours
later and mile away | discovereo a
snare from which partridge had ia'e'y
,oon ,okon felt then that | was IN
the neiuhborhood Of the outlaws oeh'
but had 10 move slowly and exercise
the greatest vigilance. L built my nres
n rovines and with the least possiol'
smoke and whenever night came dowi
I creut under the pines and rollet my
: solf IN a blanket On the fifth an'
sixtb days | did not cover over wv
. miles of ground, and most oil tna' uis
topce was covered on hands ana Ahee'
. On the evening of the sixth day ho
. to de ,cend the mountain to rene" III
; rrovisions at farm house, ana WI
was nv chagrin to learn from acoior(
- man that Flint had visited the place l
I the same purpose only the night pclor
t. He gave me the directions taken py =
,b outlaw. but when l reached the 1901
a tbo maintain l could go no further
: fine darkness and had to camp down.
was astir at dayli ght and at once ma
nd nv way to the crest of the big hill
-, levinq that Flint having supplied hi
-. so,f With provisions, would be quiet
on two or three days. Whether he dld
80 not I hunted for him another week w
Eve out finding further trace than I'll
III snare he had set for game. On the u
om teenth day my hunt came to an euo
,u,a singular manner.
was following up dry ravlne
two full of bushes and loose rocks I'll
rab- had to creep most Of the tlme' a
ich. was resting under some very u
lust bushes when heard movement Oh
and hank above. 1t might have been ca
wed Inv a deer or bear, but / felt pretty
halt tain that it was man. lie was Oh
,vor hank of the ravinc directly over
the head, and after minute or two
, md NO aaaeal Of rabbit. was
min then, and he was taking the game
pSing a snare We could not see each {
min but he had the advantage of being
the me. The bank was too steep to c
dead and was just turning to creep bac
tant- a spot where | could ascend when
came was sort of crash above me-. a
tliled pressed shout of alarm, and mex
70 as slant earth, rocks and bushes
he falling all about me. s
beast up, and as | did so the sp
eagle form of man struck the b
itlaw at my right and broke thu
breed them with great crash. | made
vas to get out of the way, but the bod
tory, scarcely come to a stop before | v
the hand. 1t was the outlaw, as | say
run glance The fall had stunned
lance While he still clutched the RABBIT
r in right hand his left arm was broke
, and lost no time in securing and dislr
Lakcn him, and when he reused up, five
lman utes later he had no show. He to
quick out in cursing, however, and of al
man blood curdling oaths | ever heard a
~ usc lic CdlpIo thS N'ihidA. SDb
ld about noon, and before night hac
was down the mountain and delivered
and legal authority lie resisted me '
|, 900 ously for the fr.t hour, decl
fur that he would die before he woul
as at company me, but after had us
yer a stout switch on him several times
in in given him to understand that he v
him. be dragged if he refused to walk
Iilled was more tractable. He was {,
out over 10 the United States author
'ious, arraigned on six or seven charg
d be murder, but convicted and hung O
d, first. was not present when he
swung off, but in his speech from
- scaffold he cursed me high and Low
'0n' left it as his dying request that
oun' friends would not rest until they
'erS' taken my life.
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