Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-12-14
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How Billy Bars ord Arrested
Three-Fingered Jack.
The Deputy Sheriff Went Alone Into the
Teton BASIN and Brought Out tho
Horsethief and Two Of
4 His Pals.
81 say, said Col. George Barry at
the Lotos club one night says the New
York Snn, q see they've got Three
4 Fingered Jack at last. Killed him
i down on the Strip. He went into a
little town down there with a lot Of
other bad men, and got filled full OF
4 6ne, lite holes. 3
i Well, sir, there was horsetlief
4 for you He lived simply to steal horses
q It wasn't a business with him twas q
passion, and he was a most exalted,
supreme high ruler, gr;lna past master
of the art. There isn't a town IN the
northwest where his record is not
4 known, and not ranchnan IN Myon-
ing and Montana who won t be glad To
s know that Three Fingered Jack has
4 passed in his checks. It's curious, tuo,
1 I've heard men who knew hin say that
q Jack was as soft as a woman about
4 Some things, and as hard as a Wonlal
about others Barring horse stealing
he was honest as the day, and there
4 wasn't q man wearing a siS-shooter
i who'd 60 further on risk more to help q
i .pard' out of difficulty. I've heard it
said that some men don't know what it
4 is to be afraid. Harry Dacelio used to
4 say Three Fingered Jack coulJin COM
a prehend fear when he saw it in Others.
"a rather guess, though that fear IS 4
4 question o stomach, much as sea sick
ness Isl Jack never would have been
4 sea sick. Ill bet that sinking senssl-
ton of cold never struck the pit of his
4 stomach. I've often thought that one
reason ss.ilor men are as a rule so brave
is simply that their stomachs are well
4 behaved.
But what started out to tell was
]. about the only tine ! ever heard Of
Three Fingered Jacks being arrested.
i He had Sod knows how many fights
with the officers, lost two fingers and
got his distinctive title in one of 'em, i
think. But somehow he always man
aged to come odt first best Barring
lperhaps Scott Hyde. there wasn't d
4 quicker man with ag,ln nall Wyoming
For Montana, and when he snot he
usually shot straight.
We'll, sir, knew g, man at Cheyenne,
i when was stationed at Fort d. A
4 Russell, whose business was catahiEg
thieves It was a passion with him,
hjust as stealing horses was with Three
4 Fingered Jacls, only, it such thing
was possible, it was a ----- sight bigger
passion. His name was Barsfurd, Billy
Barsford, and he was deputy sheriff d
i Laramie county. He was "a fine, big
4 fellow. unusual s. quiet, and the quick
4 est man to move ever saw IL there
was anJ thin, Ri lily Barsford was afraid
of he never net up with it, as they
say out there.
..One day Billy Barsford made up his
mind he'd get Three Fingered J ack.
,There'd been a big bunch or ponies run
off from some ranches in the Sweet
water country, ard the JOB was laid to
4 Three Fingered Jack. Jack had a rrgn-
larry org anized band, with headquar-
tiers over in what was then cailed the
Teton basin, but see they call it jack
sons hole now. 1t is just below where
Robert Ray Hamilton's dead body was
j found in the creek. Jacks band was
made up Of some of the toughest men
in Wyoming, good shots, fine riders and
hard citizens, as good at a fight as at a
drink, and always ready for either. The
Teton basin wasn't sosWell-knoWn8 in
those days as it's now. 1t WASH SO al
mighty safe for strang gers to be drop ins {;
around there promiscu 3usly. Ia fact,
it was SO little known that it was com
monty described as being just over be
You'd the big Teton.
YelL when Billy Barsford made up
i his mind to get Three Fingered Jack
he didn't say a word about it to ANY
body, but just took his horse ana Iii
out for Eag le3rock. He had to go way
round the retons and the basin to get
there, hut he wanted to make sure Of
/ the lay Of the country before he tackled
the gang. There were heavy rewards
out Tor Jack and Billy didn't regard
them with disfavor, althoug b he used to
tell me that the main thing that. started
him was the desire to have the Tory Of
itching rliree- Z inge rci yaelS al one.
Queer ideas Of lory some men have.
Billy got over to Eagle rock all
figh hey. call it Idaho falls now, "a