The herald., 1893-06-15
THE CAPTURED OUTLAWS.
[Continucd from First psge.l

hat no one knew what we were after.
Ny deputies started from Fresno and
look the railroad through Porterville to
loilittle switch station near Mansen.
There they were met by team and
gkKen to the neiehborhood of Wilcox
-,afson, where the fight also took place.
edtFor sometime previous we had had
aa.hrtain persona keeping both eyes open
1nqthe mountains and at length got
aptnething OF the run of the bandits. 1t
sfhh found out positively that Evans
klways left lis horse and cart at the
Widow Perkins place. For this reason
Which is right by the road and at the
loot OF the ridge from her house. After
9Mesring In the deputies came on to
Los Angeles and appeared before the
district attorney, who issued warrants
ior the arrest OF Evans and Sontag for
dsoppiDg the United States mails. These
warrants gave me full authority to go
after them in the capacity OF United
States marshal.
~ GARD JOINS THE POSSE.
"Wednesday night, one week ago, |
left Los Angeles to join the posse. l
hook pains that my presence should not
be known in Visalia. / passed through
that place at 8 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing. A few miles from that town
Htopped at ranch house where spent
the day. At dark resumed my trip to-
wards the deputies. About 10 O'Clock
Thursday night, while passing by q
high cfumb of rocks, l was startled by
's.Halt, hands up there" | could see no
one but knew who it was and said "All
right boys, they are up" Whereupon
the. boys instantly appeared from
amongst the rocks and Joined me.
"We made the rule never to move
about in the day time and waited until
dark before moving. Our first camp
was made on the top of Stoakes noun
tail. We would lie among the fissures
of the rocks and survey the surrounding
country With q field glass during the
day, and when evening fell we would
explore somewhat in the valley. We
ageo wentto the Stone Corral.
THE CAMP MOVED.
sa s%as"Finally, about daylight on Sunday,
we moved our camp and took possession
Of Bacon's cabin, whore we met the ban
dts. There is slight misunderstand-
ing OF the exact situation of
the country by the battle ground.
The Stone corral is not by Bacon's cab
in, bnt is at the foot OF Stoakes noun
tain, about mile and half further up
the cafion.
S. THE cabin is an old board affair with
four rooms. There are two doors to it.
the front facing the road and the rear
facing towards the hills.
10 "Or party was completely worn out
when we went into camp. We had
started no fire since we had been upon
the case, and had eaten nothing but
cold and canned goods.
THE BANDITS SIGHTED.
jackson and Rapelie were on guard
for that day, SO Burns and myself turned
into one of the rooms facing the road
and went to sleep. We had all removed
our shoes, to avoid making any noise in
stepping about the floor OF the cabin.
Nothing transpired during the day. but
Just as the eun was setting Rapelle
started to 60 ont of doors. We always
took the precaution to scan every quar-
ter before going about, 30 before he
-sstepp~a e.st ks--st~PP~d -oss tiIU tixr vpi1-
hold. and upon looking towards the hill
saw two men coming over the ridge.
He called Jackson, who took my field
glase and closely examined the men.
Jackson was able to make out that one
zcarried a rife and the other q shotgun
fhnd rife. The two guards aroused us.
Burns, who knew Evans, took the field
glass and looked through one Of the Stats
over the window.
They are our men, boys he report
cd. after brief glance.
al Immediately we proceeded to get on
our arms and plenty of ammunition.
Jackson, Burns and Rapelje had rifles,
while bad shotgun.
ut was impossible to wait till they
got upon us and fire from the windows,
because they were both barred up by
heavy scantling. There was only slight
crack between the Stats, just wide
benough for a man to peep through. An
sother reason was that Jackson and
Rspelje were both expert shots and had
esuch confidence in themselves that they
thought range Of 100 yards was short
enough.
10 s"The night before we had been talk
ing in the camp over prospect of meet
ing Evans and Sontag. 1t was believed
by many that Evans wore breast plate
OK body armor OF some kind, as be had
never been wounded in the body. In
regard to this Jackson said: 'I'll tell
you, marshal, | don't propose to take
any chances with Evans. II we should
meet those fellows, | would shoot his
eye out The accuracy of his aim was
showed In the fight the following day.
bnp THE SHOOTING COMMENCES.
''But to return to the fight. We fled
out by the front door, the one towards
the road, and took our positions. Burns
got by the northwest corner, while Jack
Eon and Rapelje took the southeast.
The bandits were about 100 Yards from
the cabin, near the aide OF an old straw
pile.
''The first shot was fred by Jackson !;
sure enough, he aimed at Evans's eyes,
and the bullet took off q piece of the
ybone and the flesh over the right eye.
Evans fell. Rapelje shot Immediately
after Jackson.
"Sontag then fred, and he and Evans
took refuge behind the old manure pile,
which Ia about three feet high. / went
to the door and shot several times at the
bandits, but soon went out of the house
around by Rapelje. Jackson then went
around by Burns's corner. Unfortu-
snately jackson was sighted by Sontag,
who let fly and shot him In the right
foot by the aukle. Jackson dropped,
but crawled around the end OF the cabin
Ito the side where / was.
e Let me tell you young man that for
about 20 minutes 1t was the hottest fight
sLlhave seen for some time. The shots
few thick and fast Evana and gontao