The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-16
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HI LOST HE NE6vE.
Afesr, rhls Aaair Wnd JiA Was : CAaassS
Man.
A score Of M saw the man - he came
eantering into the frontier town on ms
cayuse and more than ono remarked
how angular It was that he was un-
armed. He hitched his horse to . post
in front of the Big Elk saloon and had
just disappeared within the door OF
the shanty when . man came running
up and exclaimed:
.Boys, that's the sheriff over ut
Deadwood, and he's come for Wild
Jiml' $50
We crowded into the saloon TO see
what would happen. There were 1--we
men playing poker at one Table and
Wild Jim, y: no was wan ted Tor murder.
On entering the place the sheriff had
backed mn against the bar and faced
the players Wild Jim had 1eaped to
his feet and pulled a gun with either
| hand. and the other players leaned
back and looked around to see what
was going on.
s.After me, Joe?' queried Wild Jim,
as he stood with guns presented.
| Yes"
.'Goins to take me dead or aliveT'
Eyes,
! "You can't take me alive, and if you
move a hand I'LL drop your
| The sheriff smiled and looked around
tho room and back at Wild Jim and
queried:
"Ho,v does the game stand. Jim9"
.sI've just dealt q hand"
l. '.Au right-finish it. :"
Wild jim sat down and took Ave
minutes to play out the hand. Then
/ he looked up and said:
''Sure you want me. JoeT'
"Dog-sure."
s.Jest come for mc?''
| SsIaSk for von.ss
..Then I'm goin' to kill you whore
you stand!' .s
He raised his gun in his right hand
and blazed away, firing six shots as
fast as his finger could pull! trigger.
The sheriff never moved. When the
smoke had rolled out of the open door
and we could see him he stood in tho
same position and his face wore the
same smile. One bullet had burned
his cheelx-a second had grazed his ear
lar under the left ear. Wild Jim was q
dead shot. and yet he had missed his
. man at fifteen feet.
s.Got through, Jim?' asked the
/ sheriff, breakin9 a silence that was
; positively painful.
casped Jim as his arm sank slowly
down.
s.No-come on.''
'You didn't bring your guns!'
mo. If you are through shootine
we'll go?''
Jim laid his two guns down on the
5 table before him and walked to the
door and out into the street. His horse
. was tied to a post a block away. de
: reached the horse, mounted and Their
headed down the long street after the
sheriff, who was giving him not the
| slightest attention. In i've minutes
the pair were out of sight.
! '.What allied Jin?'' I asked of thu
: bartender, who had come to the doo1
of the saloon.
}, s'Lost his nerve" he brusquely re
Q piled.
. ''How do you mcan?
''Why, the sheriff coming without
gun and standing there to be shot a
took all his sand away and made
Q woman of him."
q ..Suppose the sheriff had had a gun?
! The man jer<ed his head toward tn
;! field wherein fifteen or twenty victim
q had been buried and said:
q He'd a-bin over thar'!'
Q "And will Wild Jim get clear?'
Q Likely, but he'll hev to leave here
d The boys hev already put him down a
l. n. G."
l. At his trial for murder in Deadwoo
,, Wild Jim was discharged from custody
It but he went forth a changed man. n
man took him by the hand-all me
avoided him. Two weeks later he wa
found dead in Custer City-a victim {
2 suicide.-DetroitF Free Press
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