Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-25
THE QUICK RAID OF THE RANGERS
SERGEANT SULLIVAN RELATES AN
INTERESTING STORY.
The BOY Who begged Not 10 10
Forced 20 the House-rwo Brnss
Women who Laughd nj the Fun
the Rangers Wore Having.


day night last, we received a message
from party at Belview stating that
he had some more OF the Cook gang 10.
Gated about sixteen miles from Beyiew.
Immediate y posIe OF ri myers, consist
ing OF Lee Queen. E,d Conn II. We non
Reese, Robert Mcclure, Arthur Jones,
boarded the ~ o'clock train and pro-
ceeded to Belyiew and met Serg ant
Sullivan, who was on bic way from
The boys at once stated the facts to
thcIq sergeant and he made arrange
ments at once for horses to get to the
place OF location as soon as possible.
About O'Clock we were ready for the
chase and more Jolly set OF boys
you seldom see. About II o'clock that
night we were nearing the spot Of the
expected gang when we met a young
fellow In the road and told him 10 sur
render. We asked him his name and
no told US his name was Robertson.
We asked him where he wgB going and
he said he had Just been TO Mr. J hn-
aOus. We asked him what he had been
doing down there and he said he went
down TO see Mr.. Johnson's girl, We
told him, guess he had better como
along and 10 with US and as we wero
nearing tho house he said For Coda
nake boys don't make me 80 w 10
the house for | am sure 10 get XII / d
n the fight comes up" As he beg ed
30 for mercy we told him he might stay
there and hold the hurg - 'b1l o. d .
and certain that you stay with IN m
We all rode up near the house and got
on our horses and made the run for
-. A.. "a .
the windows and part 10 tho doors
Sergeant Sullivan gave the landlord
u good and reasonable talk and told
him our business and told the land
lord that if l3ill Cook or any OF his gang
was IN his house that ne hld better
take hla wife and children out as We
were going TO search the house and
a fight was liable to occur II they were
In there and I'VE don't want to hurt you
nor any OF your family" We went
into the house and searched eve ything
but found none OF The men wanted
We arcneu several ngiGablplB houses
around aud lIst before day we came TO
a little log cabin supposed - be In
hahlted by some OF Cooks relatives.
We made q run on the little cabin and
Sergeant sullivan run 70 the door and
TOLD them TO open up that we were
officers and wanted TO search the house.
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asked what we wanted. Sergeant Sulli-
van at once told them that we were
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