The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-14
WILLIAM COOK, R. A.,
In This Instance, Road Agent,
Reported Captured.
WILLIAMS CAREER CONDENSED
Makes Interesting Randtng--Began
business Early and Acquired ,Grca.
Proficiency In His Special Limos
Previously. lsoportcd Doad, Hut
Later Events showed Him to 10
Very Much Alive.

SANTA FE, n, NJ. Jan. l2--Marshal
Hall yesterday received tho following
telegram from Deputy Marshal Perry,
dated Fort Stanton:
Captured Bill Cook. OF Oklahoma
territory, this morning. viii take him
from here to Roswell. thence to Okla.
hoIna territory"
Cook 10 the loader OF tho band that
has boon terrorizing tho Indian terri.
tory for the las. few months, aud there
isa heavy reward offered for his capture
dead or alive.
Bill Cook 10 about twen.y.four years
old aud mixed blood Cherokee Indian.
Hc was frat heard from when he was
barely seventeen years old, when he
was serving six months' torn In tho
United States jail A. Fort Smith, Ark,
Tor smuggling whisky into the reserya.
ton where he lived. He was cute
enough 10 behave himself, and when no
was released ho was mado posscman
undcr ono OF tho deputy marshals OF
thu iuu'ho ActIhuf1' ~ was III tUls
capacity that Bill earned n little homes,
money. He captured horse thieves and
was paid rewards for them,
BECAME A THIEF HIMSELF.
Bill retired from the business to ba.
come thief himself. He fell In lovo
with Martha Plttmau, the pretty daugh-
ter OF white parents living at Sopulpa,
10 the Creek Nation. O!d man Pitt
man acornsd the suit Of the young Jail
bird, unI Bill thereupon declared his
iaienlion OF going TO the dogs
Bills brother. Jun, aided him in re-
organizing the remnants OF the Dalton
gang OF outlaws. Their act was to way.
lay aud rob Postmaster Starr. who was
sbau.to pay oil the Cherokee Indians.
jim was captured through his brothers
,reachery.
The gang was next heard from at No.
wata, where the express office was rob.
bod and A. Q Richardson killed. Two
uAys !ater'me gang looted the express
o:Ece at tort Gibson.
On July IS last tho depot, express OF.
fee and several stores at Rediorks on
the st. Louis ( San Francisco railroad
were cleaned out by detail, from tho
gang after all the Inhabitants had been
driven from their homes out upon open
lots near the depot. The night express
tain was also held up and plundercd.
SEVERAL or THE GANG KILLED.
The town Of Chandler was raided and
the bank robbed in broad daylight.
abou. two week, aitetward. Tho citi.
rens organized posse and had battle
with the outlaws. several OF the gang
we're killed.
Bill was reported killed at the time OF
The robbery OF the train at Conatta, but
lie soon proved himself very much
alive. His gang was overtaken near
l.asobka, by force OF marshals and
police. Two Of the officers aud one OF
the gang were killed and two bandits
we're wounded in the fight that followed.
Other outrages reused the entire
country, and Cherokee officers placed
$50 men in pursuit OF the gang, and 90
militia uudor Captain Brown'joinei in
the chase. They were melted by the
offer oil rewards. agsresn,ing over Sl0.-
Gov. Six men who were believed to
have aided the gang were drrested, but
the outlaws themselves evadod pursuit.
The gang repeatedly went into camp
near Tulso. and also in a cave near Fort
Gibson. When their pur,uers went 10
dis!odge them they would disappear,
only 10 be heard from again in fresh
ou!rares. Finally trouble broke out be.
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