The morning news., 1891-09-30

/ unexpectedly. He slw that he was
GU numbered and wouli be overpowered
and he fed. He had not yet killed ten mon,
| though lacking only one or two of the num-
ber. he W on horseback. It was more
than race for life, for death stared in the
face both pursued end pursuer. Mile after
! mile IN the open highway the flight was
kept up, Parker doubtless intent OF saving
his hire for close quart RS. The pursuers
discharged their guns as best they could.
Finally some of the party got within good
range and fired. The outlaws horse fell,
ont the rider was seen to enter a thicket
near by.
Examinations of the surroundings showed
That the outlaw himself must have been hit
as we'll as his horse for there was a plain
bloody trail that led directly from the horse
into the woods into which the man had been
seen to run. This trail was followed by the
armed men away into a high and rugged
| mountain range near by--a wilderness uu-
broken for more than ten miles in one
direction aud for about four in the other
across the range
Search was continued day after day with
the utmost caution, but Parker could not be
fourd. Weeks and months rolled around
ana still no tidings of the outlaw. There
was, however, one consolation-the assas>
slnations had ceased There was general
rejoicing, though the mystery which hung
over the disappearance of the outlaw added
painful suspense to the lull in the storm,
Tor the security might be only temper ary
It was possible that the man was recovering
slowly of his wound and he might vet
return.
The war ended and year passed. But
still there was no tidings of the outlaw
The mountain had been time and again
searched in vsin for his hiding place or for
MS dead body. An unfathomable mNstery
hung about his fate. One DAY in 1866 or
1867 party of hunters were going through
little skirt of woods bordering plante-
tion in the settlement about four miles from
where Parker's horse had been killed
They suddenly came upon q pile of
human bones, with remains of clothing
near by. Lying by the side of the
skeleton was pair of army saddle-bags
These contained two pistols and some other
effects, which were instantly identified as
Parkers. The high skull bone had the uner-
ring marks of the famous young outlaw.
There remained yet the evidence of thief tai
shot that had been fred at the fugitive
years before, for bone of one of his legs
had been broken by it. In that condition.
carrying his effects with him, the man had
crawled distance of four miles over one
or the most rugged mountains i'll the
state.
Within sight and within calling distance
OF the skeleton was the residence of one of
the most prominent southern" men in the
whole county-a man who had once been a
good friend of Parker. The suppositIon is
tnet the wounded outlaw had endeavored to
reach that friends house, but, becoming
completely exhausted from loss of blood and
starvation. he died before gaining the de-
sired refuge, though it was in full view of
his longing eyes.
Day after day, while he lay suffering
Parker's voice was heard in its piteous
cries. After the skeleton had been found
the mistress of the mansion had a distinct
recollection of having heard those cries.
But Parker's remorse, however deep and
long-torturing it may have been, could not
have surpassed that of the one who was the
beginner of the long series Of tragedies for
which he had made himself responsible.
Lafayette Jones himself died a raving
maniac in the most horrible agonies.
After the killing of Capt Waugh the as
sassin entered the federal army, remaining
with it in good record until the disbandment
after the war. When peace came, and thers
were no longer scenes of bloodshed to oc-
cupy his thoughts, his mind gave way under
the memory of the assassination of his old
friend and the consequences that followed
He had learned that his friend, acting under
orders of the government that he in hone ,ty
been cen3ured, much less deprived Of his
liIe, for the part taken in the arrest and iu-
prisonment of Jones and in the appropria-
ton of his property. Horrible visi ms
haunted him. and then there came that wild
delirium of brain which seizes the insane.
and the poor fellow died raving maniac,
bound in manacleE. in a cell of the asylum
for the insane in Tennessee.
Among the victims of Parker's retaliation
there were several members of Jones own
family-the father and two sons. Another
brother of Jones, becoming desperate, had
joined the band Of robbers and he, too, was
killed by southern man while in the act of
robbery in the course of the reign of terror
there in East Tennessee. So four men-alI
the male members Of that household were
wiped out of existence as the consequence of
the political troubles in that atregion. Among
other victims of Parker's wrath were the
father and grown son in another household
near Capt. Waugh's home.
Nor were these all the tragedies resulting
from the Jones and Parker murders. The
friends and men assassinated by Parker Wis
tied wifi retaliation upon the family of the
outlaw-every male member who did not
flee the state being hanged or shot in re-
venge. The killing Of Capt Waugh led the
violent tasirg away of fifteen or twenty
others, union or southern in sentiment of
both parties. 1t has been stated that more
than forty-five men lost their lives in mur-
ders and assassination in that one county
CJohnsoa) in East Tennessee in the course of
the war and in retaliation Immediately after
the surrender. The members were about
equally divided between the secession and
union sympathiZers.
Long after the war closed one of the men
engaged in the robbie of Capt. Waugh's
widow and family. one Of the leaders in the
assassination and a blood relative of Mr..
Waugh, was killed by boon companion in
q drunken revelry. Nearly every actor in
the tragedy has passed away, the end COM
ing with violence or in insanity.