, 1892-01-17

Browns gun aud revolvers. The door
was fastened from the outside with a pair
Of chain hobbies and the wounded road
agent made a prisoner.
Ross left the horses hObbled in the
gulch above the cabin and walked rapidly
into Deadwood. Entering one of the
principal gambling halls, a couple of
friends. with whom they had worked in
Stanton's Indian outfit, we're met.
Que of them was Billy Mansfield, who
was afterward taken from the stage coach,
in which he wa being brought to Chey-
enne as a prisoner, and hanged near Fort
Laramie by a vigilance committee. Ross
requested them to accompany him to the
cabin and there a council was held.
Browns condition was becoming more
serious every moment and something must
be done at once. A happy thought oc-
CURED to one of the trio. Lii, ing in
Deadwood at that time was the handsome
and notorious Monte Verdi, who kept a
restaurant where most of the boys
boarded.
In her youth she had been II school
tcachar in Nebraska, but later became a
variety actress and as such was well
known in Cheyenne. Sometime during
her career Monte Verdi had learned a
grert deal about surgery and nursing, and
Mansfield who knew OF this suggested
that her services be secured, at the same
time giving it as his opinion that she
would not give anything away" That
very night Mansfield and his friend called
on Monte Verdi and told her enough ofthe
actual story to arouse both her curiosity
and sympathy. They we're successful in per'
suading her to visit the cabin. When she
had made an examination a hole was cut
Immediately over the bullet. which lay
just under the point Of the left shoulder
blade, and inserting a wire loop the
woman succeeded ip extracting tho bullet.
Every night as long as necessary she
visited the lonely cabin and by her nurs.
ing and skill brought tie apparently re-
pentant road agent around all right. One
night she discovered Ross hidden under
the bunk occupied by Brown. She was at
a loss to know why he should hide from
her as she had been a friend indeed, but
concluded that 1t was his intention to kill
her and make a desperate fight for liberty
should she ever attempt to betray them
aud bring officers to the cabin.
In the meantime the story had got
around among the gang and several no
torious h%ighwaymen visited the cabin.
Ross was shown the newspaper accounts
of the Whoop-up fight and he was looked
upon as a Young hero, good enough to
travel with the best men in the business.
When he again left Deadwood he was at
the head of one of the worst gangs that
ever infested the Black Hills. He was
supposed to have taken part in severa
robbcries before his CAPTURE occurred II
Eureks, Nevada, a few months later.
Old timers do not agree as to Brown,
movements from the time he LETT tn,
Deadwood cabin until he was brough
into Cheyenne a prisoner. Some main
tain he left the cabin a reformed man de
termined TO live straight, but that he wa
a marked man at whom the finger OF sus
picion constantly pointed and finally tn,
; inevitable happened and he was arrested
There is one man in this city who claim
that Brown Was one OF the perpetrators o
the famous Canyon Springs robbery. Thi
statement is given color BY the iollowin,
: which appeared 10 THE LEADER of Oct
J., 1878;
John II. Brown was brought down OIL
A the coach yesterday and lodged in iai
= here. He had a special escort in the per
son of j. l.. Jclm. who states that hi
prisoner has confessed to having been en-