Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-12

came into a neighborhood where were
three houses, about one-half mile apart,
and forming almost triangle. The
marshal had capiases for the three men
who occupied them. belonged to the
revenue department, and had no au-
thOrity to arrest. There was but one
officer present who had the capiases,
but upon an occasion of this kind men
do not stand much on the strict letter
Of the law. Our force was divided into
three parties, and each one repaired to
. house for the purpose OF making an
arrest. 1t fell to my party's lot to arrest
Bob Shaw. who was charged with be-
Ing an accessory before the fact to the
killing of a revenue officer, had been
arrested, indicted and had given bond
for his appearance and forfeited 1t.
Now Bob was q character in that Sec
ton Of the country. He weighed about
zoo pounds, was perfect specimen Of
physical manhood, and had the reputa-
ton Of being recklessly brave and
scrupulously honorable. He lived In
tho center of the enemy's country, and
OTueI W Iltthc Ill dlItot IL was ilCNCo-
sary to have a good force. Just before
court raid was organized and all the
capiases were placed in the hands OF a
marshal, who accompanied the party,
the revenue department assisting the
judiciary and vice versa. ~
Apprised of the dangerous character
Of my man our party carefully sur
rounded the house, story-and-a-half
log affair, with a log kitchen at one
angle and q rough porch In front of the
door of the dwelling extending around
in front Of the kitchen door. There
was but one window below and two
small windows above In the dwelling
Between the caves and the walls Of
the house was an open space all around
Of about four inches. A person up
stairs could pass around the wall and
cover any object with gun or pistol
for q distance of ten or twenty feet
from the house. Beyond that distance
one could not be seen except from the
two end windows.
10 was known all over the country
that we were somewhere on the ridge
and everybody was on the lookout for
n. AS luck would have 1t, Mr.. Spur
rier charged one of the other houses
with his squad of men before 1 could
get my crowd in position, but was dis
covered IN time for the moonshiner to
rum out Of the house. He was fred up
en- by three or four OF Spurrier's men,
bat got away. This directed the atten-
tion of the man that I was going to
surround, and was able to place my
men in a safe position before they were
discovered. AS 1 walked to the front
gate apparently unarmed, Shaw's wife,
q beautiful little woman, with a baby
n her arms and a little girl by her
eide, came out of the building. She
went TO the kitchen door and fastened
n Just as stepped up on the porch. I
asked her II her husband was In. She
said to me in low tone: "For Gods sake
DO not attempt to go into that house."
asked her to go In herself and tell her
husband to come out She said she
eoasd not do 1t, neither was 1t neces-
nary, for he intended to die before he
would be taken, and noticed the tears
running down her cheeks. Thereupon
she left with the children.
Iwent to the door>and found It fast.
ened on the inside.sI heard voice up.
stairs asking whe was and what ]
wanted. / looked up over my head and