Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-03
coMAncHE JACKS RECORD.
A Man Who Has Shot Thir9y Ono Others
 and HelEed Hang Seventeen.


 and HelEed Hang Seventeen.
 In this West Tn city on the streets and Tn the hotel lobbles every day one meets with many of the most noted Western characters of the day, writes the Wichita (Kan.) cor respondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 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 period ically in the largest city most convenient to their working place, so that Wichita is often called upon to entertain visitors of al- most as much notoriety as "Billy, the Kid," or Jesse James. Chief among this number is Deputy United States Marshal Jack Stlllwell, now stationed at Fort Reno, Ind. T. Jack, or rather "Comanche Jack" as he is familiarly known, is handsome-look- ing chap, with laughing blue eye, curly hair slightly tinged with gray, for this noted borderman is just fifty years of age, about five feet ten or eleven inches in height, and of massive build. He is also | the acknowledged crack pistol shot of the West, and even in the days of that Kansas cyclone known as "Wild Bill" who never missed shot, Jack Stillwell ranked high. The number of men killed by Jack is vari- | ously estimated at from twenty-five to thir- | ty-one, and it is known that in addition he | has aided in sending seventeen other men | over the valley of death by means of tho hangman's moose. Only a few months ago, | in fact on November 21, Jack sprung the | trap in this city which sent to their death | the two noted Creek Indian murderers, Jack and Joe Tobler. Even in this country, | where "killers' are to be met with every day, "Comanche Jack" Stilwell is curios. ity, and is pointed out to strangers with a strange mixture of awe and pride.
 By this it must not be understood that this 1 gallant Deputy United States Marshal is a | desperate who goes about glorying in his bloody work On the contrary, he is rather retiring in his disposition and only when he has been drinking boasts of his deeds. | When desperate work is to be done or bad desperate is to be taken Stillwell is always the man who is detailed to accomplish it. The Territory desperadoes and cut-throats all know and fear the intrepid officer, and are aware of the fact that if he goes after them he will get them, dead or alive. Many are the traps that have been laid to kill him, but he is as cunning as he Is brave, and has always managed to evade the snares that would have caused the death of a less accomplished plainsman.
 Brought up as he was among the O. manche Indians, Jack has never exercised the right of franchise, and at the age of fifty has never cast a vote. He speaks the Comanche and several other Indian lan- guages as well as the Indians do them selves, and during the sitting of the United States Court in this city it is always an amusing sight to see the Indians dressed in their primitive way, following the great ''White Chief" as they call Jack, about the streets. He calls them his 'menagerie'' and says they arc lot of dirty, thievip g wretch es for the most part, as well as the most ac- complished liars in the world.