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

TO leave his ranch us if ~ fear. Tho
judge who went 10 Santc Fe was old
enough TO be his grandfather. Al
any other time Clancy would have
been only too glad 10 bavo gone TO
the girl ut Las Cruces
While he waited and debated when
1t would do TO go TO her, ono morn.
ing there rode up 90 his door two
men, and one Of them was Antrim.
When he saw thcm it was too luto
for Clancy to attempt to or1n him
self. All he could do was to answer
tncir questions and submit TO bccom-
Ing their prisoner. The mon took
their loriats and tied him in front Of
his door to u post, aud then Antrim
told him that ho intended to kill
him. Clancy knew the man too
well 10 nsk for mercy. If hc was 90
bc killed he would meet death like
mnu. It YVES hard, though, to leave
the girl without one word of part.
ing. II he had only needed hur let
ter.
When he was tied 30 that he could
not move hand or foot, Antrim
walked OF twenty or thirty PAGES
and drawing his revolver called
Clnncys attention to his right wrist
and fired. Clancy could NO longer
feel that below that wrist he had Il
hand. Whom he tried TO move his
fingers tho muscles seemed TO have
grown suddenly numb
Antrim laughed aud asked him
what he Thought Of such marl;smau-
ship. The boy did not answer a
new hope, though, had come into his
breast. They would not Kill him
outright, merely him, and with
the girl to help him he would not
mind that Anything but separation
from her
Then Antrim spoke TO him again
and fred, and the same numb feeling
camc into his left hand below the
wrist, whore hc hud felt the second
pistol ball crush through the bone
and sinew. But he did not vince
Surely this man who looked 80 boy
ish and innocent would DO satisfied
with this much IN revenge and now
show him mercy.
II Charley Clancy had not been
fresh from the east he would know
that this was pointing . man TO
dcath-an old mcthc' OF torture
caught from the Indians. But nov
n white man was doing it. There
arc but fcw instances where white
white mon havo tried their hands az
/ it, though II * very simple All that
there is 10 do is 20 shoot a man rs
many times uI possible without kill.
ing him, until You are tired Of the
sport and willing that he should die.
Tho first timeit was over tried by
by ono white man ON another on
the Union Pacific railroad. They
point out the station to you. II il
Julesburg. Clancy, though, was not
long enough In the west ohavo even
heard fit. Before the day wus done
ho learned II all, though. Shot after
shot Antrim put into his arms and
legs until YOU could have twisted
them like piece OF rubber hose IN
any direction you desired. Between
the shots hcand his companion would
smoke their cigarettes and rest AM
divide the plumber they had takor
from the house And Clancy would
faint with pain and weakness rs IA,
hot sun beat down on him. Some
times he would not regain conscious
ness until Antrim had fired two Oh
three shots IN succession into hi
body. Ho never showed the whit,
feather though. When he found on
that IL WIS too late to hui, FOR life
oven il tho best surgeons in CT -istyn
dom stood ready TO cmo for III,
wounds, he simply thought OF m,
girl and cursed in his scoin the cow
nrdicc OF the man who WAS murder
ing him.
Everything must havo an end
though. So II IL with pointing.
When the day had nearly passct
away aud the sun was sinking in tn
west, leaving the lonely house on
the mbrolien mesa in darkness, An
trim grew tired Of the sport and tolt
Clancy so, and whilo telling IL h,
emptied hisrcvolvor into thcstOmacl
and bowels Of the man tied TO til,
stake. Then IN and his comrad
saddlcd their horses, and Clancy, dy
ing MS he was, wondered If they wcr
going to leave him 10 the night an,
darkness, when tho coyotes attract
cd by his blood, would come 10 con
tinuo tho work that day had seen he
gun. His mind was still clear, nm,
when Antrim walked toward hin
he tried to curse him for the cow1I'
hc was, until Antrim, placing hi
pistol against Clnncy's teeth, force,
the muz2lc into his mouth and pullet
the trigger; and then the days worl
was over.
There was no concealmcnt abou
IT, Every one in New Mexico lmoy
what Charley Clancy had died for
but few men spoke of it above thct
breath. The judge who went 4
Santa To staid thore. No man care,
TO meet Antrim. There was only ON
officer in the territory who had tn
courage 10 make the attempt TO NJ
prchend him, but SO well did III