Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-12-14
A NERVY CAPTURE.
How Billy Bars Gord Arrested
Three Fingered Jack.
The Deputy Sheriff Went Alone Into the
Teton Basin and Brought Cut tho .
Horsethef and Two OF
His Pals.

Tue LCtOS ciuo one LIZ ~, 9E'H D StiH N'N'''
York San, II see they've got Three
Fingered Jack at last. Killed him
down on the Strip. He went into a
little town down there with d lot Of
other bad men, and got filed full Of
fine, little holes. ...
well, sir, there was a hoTsethief
for YOU He lived simply to steal horses,
1t wasn't d business with him. it was Il
passion, and he was a most exalted,
supreme high ruler, grand past master
Of the art. There isn't q town in the
northwest where his record is nGt
known, and not ranchman in MYOm-
ing and Montana who won t be glad TO
know that ThreeEiugeled Jack has
passed in his checks. It's curious too,
I've heard men who knew han say thai
Jack was as soft as q woman uUGnt
some things, and as hard us IL woman
about others. Barring horse stealing
he was honest as the day, and there
wasn't man wearing Il siE-shootGr
who'd 60 further on risk more to help y
'pard' out of difficulty. We heard 1t
said that some men don't know what 1t
is to be afraid. Harry DaCellO used To
say Three Fingered ,lac.l uouIttn' com
prehend fear when he saw it in others
rather guess, though that fear Is d
question OF stomach, mulch lis sea sick
ness is. jack never would have been
sea sick. III bet that sinking seus3-
ton Of cold never struck the PIT Of his
stomach. I've often thought that one
reason ssiior men are as a rule so brave
is simply that their stomacNs are Well
behaved.
But what started out to tell was
about the Gully tine l ever heard 81
Three.F Fingered Jacks being arrested.
lie had God knows how many fights
with the officers, lost two fingers ana
got his distinctive title in one Of eul, l
think. But somehow he always man
aged to come out first best. Barring
perhaps Scott Hyde, there w,.sn5 d
quicker man with d gun i'll ali Wyoming
Or Montana, aud when he Shot lie,
usually shot straight
well, sir, knew Q man at Cheyenne,
when l was stationed at Fort d. a
Russell, whose business was CatchiE =
thieves 1t was a passion with hIIn.
h just as stealing horses vas with Three
Fingered Jac.;, only, II such thing
WAS possible, it was d - sight bigger
passion. His name was BarafUri, Billy
Barsford, and lie was deputy sheriff OF
Laramie county. lie was Il fine, big
fellow. unusually quiet, and the quick
est man to move | ever saw. Ii there
was ar, tt.in- Billy har,ford was afraid
r. :. !, J. t,,
say out there.
'.One day BILLY Barsford made up his
mind he'd get Three Fingered Jack.
Thered been Il big bunch OF ponies run
oft from some ranches in the Sweet
water country, and the JOB was laid to
Three fingered Jack. Jack had Il rc.gt,-
larry organized band with headqutr-
tiers over in what was then called the
Teton basin, but l see they call it Jack
sons mole now 1t is just below where
Robert Ray Hamilton's dead body was
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 4 fight as at (!
drink, and always ready for either. The
Teton basin wasn't SO Weil-KnOWn in
those days as it is now. It WASH SO al
mighty safe for strangers TO be dropping
around there promiscu ,tls|y. In tact,
it was SO little known that it was com
monty described as being just over be-
You'd the big Teton.
SWELL, when Billy Barsford made up
his mind to get Three Fingered Jack
he didn't say q word about it to amy
body, but just took his horse and lit
out for Eagle rock. e had to go way
round the Tetons and the basin to get
there, but he wanted to make sure OF
the lay of the country before he tackled
the gang. There We're heavy rewards
out Tor Jack and Billy didn't regard
them with t!isfavor, although he used TO
tell me that the main thing that started
him was the desire to have the glory OF
ca tching Three-Fingerc Jack all. alone.
Queer ideas Of glory some men have.
Billy got over to Eagle rock al!
right-they call it Idaho falls now, !
believe, and after fooling around there
awhile and finding out what he could
about the Tetons, he went out to the
Shoshone reservation and got an Old
chief there to make him a map of the
Teton country The old fellow drew il
on single. It was an almighty
rough map, as you can mighty well
imagine but It showed the lay Of the
country tairly well, and Billy got a
pretty good notion Of where he was
trying to GO
''By CAD, sir, there wasn't any gristle
Tin the end of Billy Barsford's breast
bone. He's no spring chicken. What
did he do but hang around that Sho-
shone camp four or five days longer,
and then make out to the old chief that
he'd burned up by mistake the shingle
OH which the map was made and got
the old buck to make him another.
That night Billy compared the two
shingles. The maps agreed in essen.
| tial details, and Billy concluded the
old Indian was playing fair with him
So he started out. He went up owe,
T the Tetons and down into the basin, as
fine Il picture Of little valley as q
man wants to see lying out of doors
| the middle Of it and fine pasture grass
| growing.
'.As Billy went into the valley he
| made out a little cabin down next tt
the creek, several miles from the foot
hills. Itwas morning, ana he had lots
I OF time. He got down to the GEEK
got OF his horse and made as il be
| were prospecting along the little
stream. AS he came along toward It's
cabin ha saw TbSee-Fingered JACK taa
three other feI1s1Ys sitting on . #bsslci
ees;de the ~. Their Ninehsstefs