The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-02
MI. MUNGEY. BAD MAN.
TEE sTORY or TOUGH CHARACTER
or TINE WESTERN co UNTRT


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n,sh 80 h.hind All, Mind lives Mnnoev.
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$780, .na no .eomino,v has no teeth.
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49, th., no v.. tbs son n, a rich pennsvlvanian
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~. ,onah.., ch.r.c,crs IN tie limited states
u,,..r .oon ann.ared IN the front rank. and
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- he .hot ana killed his emplover. the IN.
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80, =. had stol.n. us dealt hi. own game
r.. 80 month. ali vent we'll One night Mum.
..v vent on a ,pree. He turned up in his gam
hiins bouss auhtine drunk. paouita Lonna, the
Mexican woman VINO IN 1871 was the heao OF a
We. there playing faro; Her lover. a ha,,-oreed
cattle man named Martinez, was win her.
Mos. hs,.d Mnnasv Tho latter waiI.a mn
- p.nu,,. thr.v HI. arm. around her, and
n,omntIv ,.,..d paonita as . ,b,eld. and backed
promp.iy Isisoa I"au sn.,au. no,'s y,
.soo, unl.ss he hit hi. sweetheart. At the door
1nnrsv dronn.d IN. o,rl and Vanished. Mar.
timex followed. As he sprang through the door,
Muprey. who was waiting by IL, shot him dead.
Munsey disappeared that night. He went
West TO Colorado. and nothing was heard OF
him until 1870. when he bobbed up in New
Mexico. For three years ne hved oy stealing
cattle. In 1874 he picked up a partner named
ward shot near Henrietta. Tex. after trying to
s..hsr ~ until 1878. when they crossed the line
into ARIZONA. They made their home in the
mountains above Fort Apache, working to the
east. where the soldiers could not get them.
On the line in New Mexico near Arizona was
. ranch known as Hell's Coffin. A COW puncher
named Bailey owned 1T, and ran u saloon and
rode up to Hell's Comm. They left their ponies
. a. ,he so9bo sna , fnSer sqin aRs sai aside f tne.f ss Wers
and his bartender. Mungey called for whisky.
fssssa u: snd s sps bi ~ 0Ea lh'G ae ssltey bs c lSfsi
draw a. Munaey shot him. Then Swan and
ManE,s;y si Sp PENS hh Are on N Shs sSw : I :no The Is a, a.
left eve. but stood his ground. One OF the cow.
boys broke through adoor and got away. The
Iuks Scott Was Marsbsi then and when he |
heard Of the affair he act out to capture Mungey
HsiI's comm. had rounded nm = herd OF Bailey's
cattle and were making for the mountains
% Z HsiIs C am and there strnck Munsey's Trail
To- . ,Ss movntains AZ he Pass Dmre canon tSs
two dssneradoes evidently exnectino nnrsuit
had turned The cattle into he water and The
trail was lost scott divided his men into two
snnsSs 6ns .onsS went I'M the momntains ON on
The left OF the canon and the other went
up on the right. Scott followed the stream
III. me ms Hs came mnon Wnngsy and swan
lat. n tha astarnnnn Tbs 6rst hot Scott 6red
ssr1ch swsn In The him and he feIl beiiplsss
Ssnnn., rnIa5 danntv namsd uatchLIss
Scntt Tyssd ~ Ntnnoev a second time and The
Bloomer fell seemingly dead. AS Scott bent
nxer him Mnneev hecsHe verv mncb alive and
fred point blank at the Marshal. His bullet
rsvoIvsr AGAINST Nnnpeyss left tennis nnIieS
he triages' Somebow Nunaev mpnaued m
move his head. and the bullet crossed his face.
ME- h'9e tha ",bar S.n,,u anh Sw.
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