Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-04
FIGHTING BILL CARR
nEMARkAeLE DEEDS OF DARING OF
A UNITED STATES MARSHAL.

a Card Sharper His First victim--How He
Exrerminated q Band Of Horse Thieves.
Adventure with Bill Dalton-A From
tisr Romance.
The man who goes down into the Chick
esAw Indian country and says he never
heard Of Fighting Bill' Carr Is consider
Cd the greepest kind Of a tcnderfoot.
Carr, the officer In question, Is hand
some Pennsylvania with record as a dep
uty marshal that Is little short Of miracu-
tous.
BILLY Carr came here before the Okla
homa boom" said an old frontiersman.
Vyep, believe he's called the king of the
Ohiokasaw country He first came into
notice on the 4th Of July in 1887. Down
there In the bottom lot Of sharks were
heecing suckers. A pretty girl was In one
Of the crowds trying to induce her fool
brother to quit brace game. The girl
Oficd bitterly over her brother losses, and
chs tough gang stood about and laughed.
Nobody knowed Bill Carr them days, and
% he didn't cut much figger. The man
who had robbed the boy was Coyote Dave,
and he had killed q man or two and had
. private graveyard down In No Mans
4apd. Well, Bill, he sorter stood round
6Wbile after the pretty girl and her brother
had left, and then he began to play. Coy
ote Dave won come of his money, and when
Carr accused him of cheating, he said:
"'Course did tender. Wat you going
90 do about 1t, heye
1.-THE camp turned out an buried Dave
next day.
Eyes, Billy put three holes in David's
carcass inside second, and as he walked
sway I heard him say That's for that
pretty girl with blue eyes; durn his ugly
picture
well, a day or two after this wild
and woolly chap from the Brazos country
plugged hole through our oity marshal
and then skipped out for Oklahoma There
wasn't any one to foller him, and no one
wanted the job of marshal till Bill Carr
said he'd take It II he could have an assist
ant, and he chose Joe McNally. While
Joe held down the town Bill Carr mounted
his horse and chased the murderer down
70 where Oklahoma City now stands The
skunk turned on Bill, and there was an
other killing.
About this time Henry Austin, q full
blooded Chickasaw Indian who had been
killing people worse than the Bender fam
Uy for about ten years, did some new dew
tnent, and the Fort Smith officers wanted
him captured. The old heathen had the
whole country 'buffalOed' except Bill Carr.
30 Bill, hc got on his old sorrel pony and |
~ode out to this Indians lair1n the noun |
for him at daylight, and
feIns. He ~ Bill pop
when the old red man oamo y,sK
ned out and tried to arrest him, but the I
chief slid behind a tree. Bill and him
banged away at one another from under
cover for about an hour, and then Bill put |
three bullets into the old rascal
"But the very worst fight Billy ever had
was with the Franklins and Washingtons.
They was nigger hoss thieves. When Bill
went after them, he took posse along,
and when they reached the cabin posse
man, a personal friend Of Bills, rode up
and pounded on the door. Then those
heather niggers just opened crack and
stuck out their guns and killed that posse
man. Bill vowed then and there that he
would kill every one of them for murder
ing his pard. So he set fire to the woods
back of the house, and when those heath
ems came running out with their guns In
their hands he shot them all down.
after Bill had been spliced awhile and
had been shot two or three times his better
half got him to quit and go down to Vio-
let Springs, o. t., and buy grocery. The
idea Of Bill Carr a-selling peas and corn
and taters like common clerkl Els was
a-saying, Bill turned clerk, but he didn't
like 1t, and neither did the boys Arter a
little papoose was born, and then Bill
was happy. At this time Bill Dalton and
Bill Cook and other tough gangs was
oavorting around, and often said that II
In mi ad a nd
down he made them fellers hard to ketch.
Marshal Nix done heard that Bill Dalton
was down near Violet Springs, SO he sends
Carr a warrant for him and Slaughter
Kid. Bill felt just like getting into the
harness again. One AFTERNOON along come
two galoots on horseback. Bill seen 'em
a-coming and watched them hitch their
horses to the old rack His wife and kid
were in the store when they came In and
eyed Bill.
"'Be you Bill CARR asked one Of the
chaps.
"'Reckon ] be- said Bill as he slid
along the counter toward a six shooter.
who be you unsP'
"'I'm Bill Dalton, and this is Slaughter
Kid, said one of the strangers. Heard
you'd q warrant for us and thought we'd
come in
"'Yes, she Is redhot and still hottin,
said Bill as he raised his gun. Just then
his 2-year-old kid run In atween them, and
his wife run in arter 1t. This spoiled Bills
aim, and afore he could pull a second time
the two geisers begin to bore holes in him.
But he was game and drove 'em out arter
they had shot him three times. They got
ON their horses and escaped, bat poor Bill
lay about dead on the floor. When the out.
laws heered that Bill wasn't dead, they
threatened to finish the work, SO lot OF
the boys from Oklahoma City went dowr
and guarded his house till he got better
Shortly after this Dalton was killed
When Bill got well, he sold out his gro
Gerry, and since then he's making 1t hot fo
the balance Of the gang. Some one sho
him last week during the Rogers fight
but they can't kill Bill Carr. New Yorl
Times.