Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-29

his native state, was rampant BepuO-
lfcau. 10 seems 70 have been the rule
in these new towns and mining camps
10 select for their marshal or chief OF
police. q man who had already made a
reputation as killer. Before Creole
was dreampt OF Creek had qualified
himself for the position OF marshal by
killing four men, In self-defence, he eX-
planned. The beginning made in civil
life he kept brave!y up as an official.
and 10 him belongs the distinguished
henor of having supplied the corpse to
start the graveyard in the new city.
After Creole became more law abiding,
10 needed a higher type OF city officials;
Broken Nose" Creek was elected out
of Office, and is reported to have been
subsequently, shot in mining town on
the GunniSOn.
/ have said that the native born
Euglishman took more naturally to the
calling OF bad man" than did the gem
uine Yankee. One Of the most striking
examples OF this was Ben Thompson,
an EnglishmaD, who was brought out
10 Texas by his parents while he was
vet a child. Thompson began his
vicious career while still in his teens
and before he was thirty he had killed
eighteen men, a record that warrented
his being elected marshal of the capital
citv of AuStiD. Had Thompton been
native born Texan, with lenage of
frontier ancestors running back for
many generations, he could not have
shown more skill as a rider and shot.
He was one Of the few men OF this class
who came nearer being devoid OF ply
steal fear than any know Of. On one
occasion, learning that two barkeepers
in a certain establishment had sworn
they would kill him if he ever came
into their place he boldly walked in
alone. As soon as be reached the mid
die Of the room the two men, one on
each side AID not more than twenty
feet away, raised their shotguns and
fired at the same instant, but they were
so frightened that they missed their
mark, whereupon Thompson, who had
been grimily smiling at them, drew his
revolver and killed the two. 1t was
the same desperate recklesSness that
led him into quarrel with the prOprie-
tor of a theatre in San Antonio. Thomp-
son would have killed the theatrical
manager had not boy named Sims,
who was his assistant, drawn his pistol,
stepped between the TWO, and sent
three bullets through the desperadO'S
brain.
The Jameses, Fords, and road agents
ofthat class, while red-handed murder
ers. do no deserve TO be claSsed with
the western bad man who rather prides
himself on his honesty, that is, he will
not hold up a stage or railroad train
for the purpose of loOting it, but he
does not hesitate to make money by
cheating tenderfeet and manipulating
cards so as 10 win. A few years ago
Harley Mccoy, also a Kentuchian, hav-
ing killed two men in his native state,
and mastered the art OF poker, felt
himself qualified for the ranks OF the
western bad man and so went out 10
Colorado. Here Mccoy at once became
a orotege of the famous, or infamous
'Bat Masterson, the prince Of "killers"
and the NAPOLEON of the western sports.
Harley Mccoy is now about thirty-six
wears OF age, tall, liths aud active. He
has dark, curling hair, black eyes, and
a wholesome olive complexion, and as
he dresses well aud in excellent taste,
his handsome person is sure TO attract
attention wherever he goes. Under
the guidance OF Masterson, Mccoy has