The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-10-23
LA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER % 1895.
ne LOST HIS NERVE.
After This Affair With tho Sheriff wild
Jim Was q Changed Man

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After This Affair With tho Sheriff wild
Jim Was . Changed Man.
A score of us saw the man as no
came cantoring into tho frontier
Town on his cayuse, and more than
me remarked how singular it was
shat he was unarmed. He hitched
his horse to a post in front of the
Big Elk saloon, and had just disap-
pcarod within tho door of tho shan.
ty when Il man came running up
and exclaimed!
boys, that's tho sheriff over at
Deadwood, and hos como for Wild
JimV'
We crowded into tho saloon to see
what would happen. There were
five men playing poker at one table
and throo at another. One of the
mon was Wild jim, who was want
cd for murder. On entering tho
place the sheriff had backed up
against the bar and faced tho play
ers. Wild Jim had lcapcd to his feet
and pulled a gun with either hand,
and tho other players leaned baok
and looked around to SEQ what was
going on.
"After mo, Joo?" quericd Wild
Jim az no stood with guns presented.
"Yes."
"Going to tal.o modead or alive?"
eyes"
"You can't take me alive, and if
you move q hand Ill drop you!"
The sheriff smiled and looked
around tho room and back at Wild
Jim and queriod:
"How does tho game stand, Jim?"
Two just dealt a hand"
"All right-hnish it."
Wild Jim sat down and took fvo
minutes to play out tho hand. Then
le looked up and said:
"Surc You want mo, Joo?"
DOG sure"
"Jcst como for mo?"
"Jcst for you"
"Thcn I'm goin to kill you where
you stand:
Ho raised tho gun In his right
hand and blazed away, firing six
shots as fast as his finger could pull
trigger. Tho sheriff never moved.
When thosmokc had rolled out of
tho open door and we could SEQ him,
he stood in tho. samo position and
his faco wore the same smile. One
bullet had burned his cheeks Sec
ond had grazcd his cara third had
cut through his shirt collar under
the left ear. Wild Jim was a dead
shot, and yet he had missed his man
at Is feet.
"Got through, Jim?' asked tho
sheriff, breaking a silence that was
positively painful.
"And you-you arc not heelcdl'
gaspcd Jim as his arm sunk slowly
down.
"No-cor,e on!"
"You didn't bring your guns?:"
mo. If you are through shooting
We'll CO."
Jim laid his two guns down on
the table before him and walked to
the door and out into tho street. His
horse was tied to a post a block
away. Hc reached the horse, mount
ed, and then headed down the long
street after tho sheriff, who was
giving him not tho slightest atten-
ton. In two minutes the pair were
out of sight.
What allied Jim?" I asked of the
barkeeper, who had como to tho
door of tho saloon.
Lost his nerve" no brusquely
replied.
"How do you mean?"
"Why, tho sheriff coming without
a gun and standing there to be shot
OF took all his sand away and made
a woman of him."
Suppose tho sheriff had had o
gum"
The man jerked his head toward
the field wherein Is or 20 victims
had been buried and said:
"He'd a-bin over thar!"
"And will Wild Jim get elear9"
Likely, but he'll hev to leave
hero. Tho boys hev already put him
down as n. g."
At his trial for murder in Dead
wood Wild Jim was discharged from
custody, but he went forth a changed
man. No man took him by tho hand
all men avoided him. Two weeks
later he was found dead in Custer
City, victim of suicide Detroit
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