The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-17
~ EYE.FoR AN EYE.
-.-r,ble story of the Wisconsin
. Pineries.
rom the Ne,o York Star.

.,-,rn the Nelc York Star.
y,rr WIS, Sept. 1l.-"You see.
old-timer. as be sat IN NOT ' t"'t "
sall a. land office few days ago. tine
" isIo- m there have law and Justice tneSe
peopie ~ & vas not always So" he was
days Ou' e clark county and well posted
pre-emp -, hack SOME fifty or more years
1T was 49, ~ outlaws made their homes IN
ago sna woods up there. Anu wneu neniy
me ueA7 ard MS young WIG auu I"o mi
.a-ne here 10 settle anu cIeai To-. -
dren ca 4-saSt life the gang soured on nim-
for an Dole it,7 snch a warfare that Hosklns
and KEEP arr+ed against one OF the gang.
finally Iet'i sf,ernoon seven of the gang,
% IL John Gilfroy. Sam Deakln,
Hugo, pouSSsii, Duke Thomas, Syl Worden
WIZ DeI arot1sr Hank, got surprise party
and ms They bound him to . tree,
on fiC9H .-ssence of his wife and children
anu anu ~ lash lash on his bare back mos' uniner-
la si, Iu' Tine pleadings OF the poor wile
cIl1 -, IN vain. No sound or murnur escaped
the lips OF Hosklns; .;so,+ or das;,r a
l I.rnct Hoskins' right eye, tearing the
Dio" gu. ~ the socket Hoskins tainted, and
pan II is ~ also fell in swoon. The scoun-
ms , VIZ ~ felt that they had perhaps gone
drel 81 ~ On they skunk off, one by one. Upon
TOO Ia r. consciousness the suffering wife
Iesai bsonds that held her husband and
cut tno him TO their cabin, and under her
oon ' 5e recovered. But he was not the
o a. man. His ambition was now only Tor
a,-anqe. In a few months MS wlIe dieu
trom nervous prostratlon lie sent MS
TIA L;id-en 70 the home of their grandparents
cni 1norborn near Detroit, Mich. Hoskins
al DeTa on his land. The gang who per-
Ie.-a.od the outrage on him were desperate
l- hut they gave Hoskins wide berth.
ne ..6na dav Hank Worden-it was Hank
rIiad the lash-was found dead in the
WIZ The coroner's jury found verdict
" sJ;od from bullet in the right eye, by
80 ~ as unknown Weeks sped by. when
10 hody of Boden was found-killed by
bnIlet in the right eye. And now a name
less terror seized upou those men, Ihey
To- In,.o not leave the woods, as bounty was
u oet On THAR capture. But they never left
ST. shanties except with loaded rifles on
tboir shoulders The breaking of a twig in
t .i,o woods gave them spasms of fear. In
- or two the body of Gilfroy was
tonnd-shot IN the right eye.
s.World not their Nemesis now concede
HE vengeance satisfied? The state of the
remainder of the gang was pitiable. And
1yban a few days later the bodies of Deakin
and Beardsley were found, near the bank of
the river. shot IN Une rlSnb eye, tHo Telldlu-
ing members of the gang-Syl Worden and
bike Thomas-pale, emaciated, scared and
With shattered nerves, sought to escape
from the unerring rife of the man they had
So deeply iniured-whose life they had
mined They donned disguise and set out
toward where now stands the city of Neils
vile but which was then an unhroken
wilderness. They took turns at watching,
but there was no escaping the vigilant eye
of he who treasures up wrong
1.-THE two men stood on slight elevation,
watching the setting sun, when the report
of a rife broke the silence of the scene, and
Syl Worden dropped dead-shot in the
right eve. In few moments HoSkins stood
in front of the solitary remainder of this
gang Of prosecutors - Duke Thomas.
Thomas pleaded for mercy. He held his
rifle in his hands, but he was paralyzed with
fear and dread.
''Hoskins recalled the scene of that dread
evening" told of his dead wife, his shat
tered life, his ruined home. He had sworn
solemn oath of vengeance, and, raising
his rife, the last of the gang lay in death
shot in the right eye Hoskins was never
seen after that. Some say that the hermit,
aged and gray-bearded, and with only one
eye-the left-who died in his hut in the
northern wilds in 1876, was the same Hos
kins. The initials H. H. were cut into the
stock Of his rifle and seven notches with a
rudely engraved eye bore CHASTITY signifi-
canoe, and partially solved the mystery of
the old hermit's life.n