The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-28
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F7astlsularE OF tszs Deputy uLzrahEIrH Death /
-carelassnes. Of the BaEEaEsrlan
short HZuln His Murderer.
Caldwell kan. Aug. 25.-Saturdsv
night Deputy United States Marshal
Ed short captured Charley Bryant.
one of the famous Dalton gang, Mt Hen
uessey, OK. This gang had been MAX
ing their headquarters in the Cherokee
strip and Short had been hot on their
trail The capture was made under
diticutties- Short waited until Bryant
had gone 20 bed, when he rushed into
his room and covered him with his re-
volver. Bryant tried to get his gums
but he was overpowered and hand
cuffed. When the Rock Island train
came north through Hennessey sun
day afternoon Short boarded the train
with his prisoner 70 take him 70 Jail at
Wichita
After the train started he asked the
conductor if he could take his prisoner
into the baggage car, as ne thought the
balance OF the gang would attempt to
take him at some OF the stations through
the strip. The prisoner was taken 90
the baggage car, but as the baggage
man had no weapons Short returned to
the smoker and brought a revolver.
This was given TO the baggageman,
whose clEclessucss is the cause of the
bravcst United States marshal in the
west being corpse now. He laid tt
down on the top of his safe and went to
the mail department The conductor
was writing at a desk in the car when
he was suddenly ordered 20 jump
Looking up he saw the prisoner holding
a revolver within four feet OF his head
About this time the train was slow
ing up for Naukomis, a dismal station
on the prairie with nothing but de-
pot and a section house. The des-
a.. D al a q
20 mako his escape but saw short
standing on the platform of the smoker
with a Winchester in hand ready 20 re-
pulse any attack that might be made TO
rescue the prisoner. Bryant immcdi-
atcly closed the door, and with his
handcuhed hands cooked the revolver,
opened the door and fired a
bullet through shorts body, It
going in at the top of his left shoulder,
in front, passing clear through the body
and coming out under the right arm at
the back. Short fired at him with his
Winchester, the ball striking EryuHt
square in the breast, passing complete
ly through the body and struck the
partition in the car, carrying flesh and
cloth with it, Both men received their
death and only wounds In the first two
shots, but kept on firing bryant emp
tied the six cham bers of his revolver
and Short fred eight shots from
his Winchester. The ends of both cars
were riddled with bullets. John Dob
son, "a prominent druggist from El Reno,
was sitting In the water closet ia the
front end of the smoker, when one Of
B the bullets crashed through the win
/ dow, striking him iu the arm, passing
! completely through it, but luckily just
missing the bones and arteries Con
| ductor Collins was just behind the
! prisoner and Just 10 range of the bull
i lets frem the marshal The only way
he saved himself was by clutching
] onto the irons at the side o.
. the car and swinging out Bry
[ ant was the first man TO drop and Ia,
/ fell foremost down the steps
Short caught him by the leg and helC
him with head almost touching the
Z ground. He called 20 the conductor
( and when ne got to him he died.
The prisoner was dead when plclSct
up from the platform and carried intS
the car. Short was placed on a cot
when ne said 20 the conductor. ''Jin,
am dying; wish ] could see mother
The conductor thought he was not Sc
riousIy hurt and told him so, but inside
of ten minutes he expired