Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-07

IS Kangaroo Gag hut Observation-Disclosures eA-
cept BIZ their own ofiicer5. Still horses
disappeared mysteFiously, and Thunder
bolt and his boy were said TO have been
seen at different and relatively far distant
points.
One blazing hot afternoon at the end of
that summer 1 was riding quietly along
track. II was so hot that the
very flies had ceased from troubling my
horae and myself, and the black c,ows,
perched 10 q tree near the carcass of dead
bullock, were sitting with open beaks and
dropping wings. l was Overtakel by a
couple of police troopers, fine, draggoon
like fellows, we'll mounted and armed with
heavy revOlvers. One of them, McKane by
name, a Sergeant, and late OF the Irish
I knew well, tall good
looking fellow, the beau ideal Of caval-
lyman. The other l had never seen
before. I was glad Of their company
they we're bound TO our station, so our
ways lay together. We pulled up, lit our
pipes. had a duEk of cool water from the
water bag carried slung to my saddle,
lust favored with something from my
flask, and we logged On together. Vi
rangers. TIE Sergeant told me that they
had taken a man who they were tolersoly
sure had been a mate Of Thunderbolrs on
the occasion of the bank robbery; he was
in possession Of stolen horses and had q
suspicious number Of sOvereigns about him;
but 80 to Thunderbolt himself they were
Mt fault. The small free solicitors and
farmers would not, or dared not, give any
information; the bush telegraph was act
lively at work. ThanderbOlt and his boy
were in all probability comfortably hidden
somewhere IN the ranges, certain OF timely
information should the police get upon
their track. / told him that three OF OuI
best horses had mysteriously disappeared;
one Of them, the Doctor, winner OF certain
stCckman's purses, and mack races in par
ticuiar, was well known to him, and to
most people in tie district, and We had
little doubt as to who had taken him. The
Doctor was a slsshing chestnut, with q
great staring white face, like Blair Athol,
an animal TO be recognized mile of amid
a thousand others.
So we rode on, Earning, mile after mile
under the hot sun, intending, when we goi
off tine stony tack on TO the plain, where
the going was good, to carter on, go as &c
get home about the setting of the sun. We
rode over q little stony rise and down on tC
a grassy flat, on which was feeding little
scrubby flock of sheep, belonging to one
Peter White, who kept bush pnblic house
and store q little further down the rosd.
Here, or the dusty track, we very sOol
noticed, the Sergeant and l, the hoo
marks of three horses, one OF then
shod and quite fresh; they had evidently
only lust come onto the road, or elss We
should nave noticed them sooner. Th'
Sergeant rode over to the boy who wa
mindiDg the sheep, but the oonvlcl-breC
young cub, with the Unborn dislike OF hl'
race TO policemen, was sulky, and ssic
that he had seen no one. This was lie
for the horse tracks were on top Of thu
tracks of the sheep where they had crossed
the road on their way to water at the creeh
which ran down the middle of the fat
So we pushed on bit, thinking to hes
AT Whites, q mile ahead Of US, who tn,
travellers might happen to be. We rods
across shollOw ford, startling a grea
mob OF white cockatoos which were drink
ing and bathing in the clear water. and q
wa rose the opposite bank came III sight,
ouarter of a mile from Us, of the LITTLE
clump OF bush buildings which made NJ
Peter Whites Establishments long, loV
verardaed slab rouse, its iron roof shining
in the westering sun, and few bark snC
shingled huts, kitchen, sto.e and stable
behind it, all lying snugly at the foot o
the forest. covered hills, just where they
touched the plain.
As We cantered up to the place, every
thing about it seemed silent and deserted
save that, at the saddle stand in font o
the public house verslda, stood thre'
horses, one carrying pack saddle, on t
which q fair-haired hoy was busy In trap
ping a sway. And one CT the horses wa
the Doctor
Instantly the scene changed. As I sans
out, by the Lord Harry, that's ml
horse" and the Sergeant stuck his spur
into his big brown mare, we heard the boy
scream OF shout some alarm, tall max
rushed out Of the door brandishirg some
thing bright in his hand, sprang on thu
old Doctor, and dashed away, closely fol
lowed by the bay, and leaving the pacl
horae tied TO the rail.
A shout from the Sergeant, Come on
Sir, in the Queens name, and away WI
three went after them, thnnderiDg dowI
the road, round the corner of the paddock
fence, over the steep bank of the creek
into the thick scrub on its far bank
crashing through it, and up the rougl
side Of the hill beyond. As the two raced
over the bald ridge We saw the man
aga inst the sky line, throw out his hsrd
and the boy swsrved off to the right; WI
never saw him sgain that day.
And then began a furious chase-a rae
for life aud death. Hard riders we al
were in those days, hard riders after wilt
scrub cattle and wilder horses, through
thick bush and over ranges by sunligh
and by moonlight; but never snch a rld'
rode l as that afternoon after man.
seemed to feel the frantic passion will
which horse will gallOp until he drops Il
pursuit of his fellow-nOrsea.
We well knew that our horses could mol
keep up the pace at which we were going
We knew that the man we we're hunting
was familiar with every yard otthe wilC
country we we're riding over; we knew
that ne was flying for his lie and would
fight for il; but we rode as the hunts
man of old may have ridden after say
age beast. his prey. Scrambling up hills
gathering down declivities at reckless
pAce-for we were following the best stock
man on that country side-cur horses
laundering over stones and bogs, nay lead
er still ahead of ne; over ridge and dowr
gully we gslloped, the Sergeant never los
ing sight of the bushranger, and keeping
well up.
Once we came down O slide made by The
timber-getters to send down their log
from the top Of the rarge to the saw pi';
in the gully below, our horses fairly sit
ting on their launches and laundering
down amid shower of stones. Then the
race went on through thick acacia scrub
the yellow flowers powdering us as We
ooIorad drrgf