Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-20
ANTRINI'S DEATH.

"A " Il IL VI - bl14A L lie
There Is M intoxication in the
thedding Of human blood that Is for
tunatcly given TO but few men TO
know. Some men arc more susccp-
tble to 1t than othcrs-ju-t as some
men degenerate more rapidly into
lrunsaols by the drinking Of wine
than others. This blood drunken
ness Is not war Soldiers seldom
know il. In war when you feel your
kayonet sink to the shank in the soft
Welding breast of another, or drops
man with bullet, you lose interest
IN thoman you have killed aud jerk
on, your bayonct or load your riilo
for another Blood drunkenness is
merely killing for the sake Of killing.
A hundred years ago this blood
drunkenness was recognized by the
law prohibiting butchers from sory-
ing as jurymcn. II is still recognized
90 our frontiers, where the restraints
Of law are not 80 rigorous as in popu-
bus communities. \ hulf score years
40 1t was more common thun ut
p1sent. There were but few sec.
tons then but had their blood dipso.
uaniacs.
New Mexico had one, and his name
WIS Billy Antrim. Had he been an
uaent Greek instead Of being IN
Al.ican. mythology would have
mad, his cruel ferocity immortal.
H.Has only u boy when no got his
IN; tasto of blood. When death
oNrtook him ho was but twenty
hcc, yet he was known TO have
hlled more men than there were
years in his age. Al but his mother
njoiccd ut his death rs il n pesti-
ence had been staid.
There was another woman, though,
that rejoicod to SEQ his body VISITOR
and swell and blaclen. Still, tho
dead man Ind loved her, and she had
lived with him rs n wife lives with u
husband, yet it was not FOR jealousy
she killed him. Before she had met
him she had loved another man. His
name was Charley Clancy. lie was
foreman of tho H-B Cattle company,
on tho Rio Grlndc, near Tulerosa.
The people along tho river called it
tho Ii bar = outfit. He, too, was Il
young man just from the cast, with
no more business 10 be- IN New MoS-
icoat that time tian a preacher has
in purgatory.
When he had first mot the girl It
was in Las Ciuccs-that strange lit
tie town near the Mexican limo
whose history runs back to the Span
ish conquest. lie was young and
green, and perhaps homesick, and it
was not long before no was in love
with this girl Of alien race, for she
was Mexican. After that ho found
the ranch moro and more lonesome
md Las Cruces moro and more pleas
ant. Home could not have been
more desirable. When q man is in
love and his love is returned by u
beautiful girl, with her presence any
place is heaven. 1t was so in this
case, and Clancy's visits to Las Cru
Cos became very frequent.
One day while he was there there
was a prisoner brought into town
whose presence created more excite
ment than If he had been the gov
ernor Of the territory, for it was this
man Billy Antrim. Every one crowd.
Cd to Eco the desperate, aud with
them went Clancy, for no man was
ever more feared or more noted for
his forocity. SO great was the terror
inspired by his deeds that when his
ulal came there were few men who
would serve as jurors. Among those
VINO did serve was Charley Clancy.
no was young aud green, and they
made linn foreman OF the jury.
when the girl-you need not know
Her name, for 1t is that OF n good
iahily' rs good as your own per
maps, and besides she, too, is dead
now and it would avail you nothing
well, when she learned this she
lmplorcd Clancy, in her terror, 10
withdraw, but he only smiled ut hen
ie'ns and answered her tears with
KISSES, She was Il native of tho coun
ny ana he Q strangcr.but, boylike,
ne thought lie knew II all
when the trial was ended and the
uelIh sentence imposed, for that was
Wv only verdict possible. Clancy ~.
turned 10 his ranch aud ms cattle
promising the girl not TO BIO long al
sent While no was gone the ma
Whose death he had voted for q,
capped prilpn. The judge who In
presided at the trial in his terror lei
inc county and wont 10 Saute 70 (
DC safe, and the girl wrote TO Clanc
% DO on his guard aud como TO he
~ once, Womanlike, sho though
'hM while with her no danger coul
reach him, lIo received the lettel