The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-11-19
The OUTLAWS HOME.
row 9UsE CURIOUS LIVED m TIGHT. EYE
SWAMP.
A Pen Picture of the Outlaw That
Takes All Romance from His


L. c. Minor, a route agent for the
southern Express company, was with
the detectives on several occasions when
they made attempts to capture Rube
Burrows, and he can detail many facts
and incidents in Bube's career that have
never found their way to print. Bube
Burrows was an extraordinary man in
many respects. 1t is the popular belief
that he was dashing, happy-go-lucky
sort of a fellow, who loved excitement
and lived high on his ill-gotten gains.
The truth of the matter is, he never
had but very little money at any one
time. j. was often compelled to spend
a very considerable part of what he did
receive 10 get away from the scene of
his iobbelies.
His usual hiding place was in the
swamps of Florida. have learned somess
thing of his manner of living when hid
ing out there. His RENDEZVOUS was in
Santa Rosa county, across the bay from
Pensacola, and better place to hide
| ones self from the law could hardly be
found. 1t is dreary, desert sort of
country, and very thinly populated. The
swampS are covered with thick, bushy
growth, springing from a sort of white,
shiny sand, that is dry and slippery
making it almost impossible to walk on
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back again with scufIle and scramble
to maintain your equilibrium. This san
dy soil was Rube's bed and the over
| hanging bushes his only roof. He never
slept under the roof of house, and this
is what made it so difficult for the Off
GERS to capture him. In the swamp
known as "Tight-eyc swamp the out
| law lived for months, eleven miles from
| any human habitation but one. There
was a denizcn of the swamps who lived
in a hut near Rube's hiding place, who be-
friended the bandit and regarded him with
a certain sort of admiration. Burrow 5
| introduced himself to this old man 5
household as Mr.. Ward, and kept them in
ignorance of his real identity up to the
time of his capture, though they knew
he was an outlaw and that a price was
upon his head The old man had two
daughters with whom RUDE is said to
have been playing the part of a very gay
Lothario, in his out of door home in
Tight-eye swamp. The girls by turns
visited him in the swamps and carried
him food and drink He always had
some money with him, and the old man
of the hut regarded the outlaw as a very
great man, and treated him accordingly.
A kind of signal service, which, while
crude, was successful was established
| between RUDE and the hut. When there
was no danger around the girls would
place it up side of the house. Seeing
this, the outlaw understood at once that
he could 90 to the house without danger
of detection, but he would never venture
out of the swamp when the white flag
was not visible. With the assistance of
tl.i.s- es>--.il, s...l IT, e-.---ll
which he lived like Robin Hood in the
heart of BaInesdale forest, it was next to
impossible to capture him, and if he had
not ventured out to secure more booty
instead of being killed he could still be
baslIing in the smiles of the two devoted
girls who so often befriended him in his
voluntary exile in Tight-eye swamp.