The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-05

ms capture Bull swors he vnula .e& ..
aseuising himself as decrepit old rnsn
ooA good strong rope ana went hob
ohng about "OHut's woods. nr..snasr~
to DC looking for a stray horse He eul.rte.3
Onut services BY consummare deceuttr,n
AFTER leading him slightly .way from ire
,acfosure be sprang upon him with tiger
Ike fefocity.
Now I've got ye." he yelled. throwing
the rops around the outlaw.
lou better hold me tight" Os,t
sneered. ana began TO struggle He Ara
NOT Know his opponent was Bull Frszzel.
ne Hxnt was long ard fserce. Onut was
overcome BuIi carried him into tina
county jail at Rockville and got the $500.
Ice story spread like wildnre Bull Friz-
xei was a hero.
He remained hero TO all but his next
door neignbors. They we're the woodvs.
a iue-iong feud existed between them.
Iney mated Ball and he hated them For
Thirty years the greatest object OF their
yves was 10 get even with one another.
Wood Gathering Under Fire
One spring when there was high water
on the river and logs were drifting down.
pun got his raft out and steered over
Ine iowlands back of Old man woeay's.
N ne Wa picking Up driftwood. when
Woody yelled:
shootr'
Shoot, then. you - responded
fTizzel with his characteristic words.
lie never opened his mouth without an
oatn- Woody shot. For two mortal
hours ne poured shot through and
through Bulls bare legs. and Bull no
more minded 1t than IL it had been corn
the story goes. With blood spattsred
over the logs, Frfzzei worked until. he
Sot all the wood he wanted, then quietly
sas Gown and picked the shot from his
legs He went home. got his fastest
E morse. and salloped to court In George
Town Every week the two had cases
OF assault against each other
1t id seem like nothin' could ever kin
hims even when the chain bridge fell
on Nam he got over it," the local chron-
icier says This story is the one most
frequently told about him as proof that
ne was the toughest man alive
Ihe nrst iron bridge over the Potomac
hao oeen completed, except the supports
under the stringers. and Bull Frzzel was
one OF the men who helped to Jack them.
Wnen crash! the whole thing gave way.
me TWO spans sank into the river carry
ing the workmen with them Bull was
near the rock flats and a great part of
she weight Tell on him. The other men
rose from the water unframed Bull
frizzel lay under the n1ass of iron and
timber, with shaggy head crushed and
bleeding. ribs broken and arms shattered
he was rescued and carried TO the old
stone House TO die. Thre doctors carna
rost-haste from Georgetown. They took
ten pieces OF bone from his skull and as
many more from his body. and inserted
silver plate In the great hole In his
temple. In four days Bull was un and
around again. The silver plate. the only
marx OF the accident. became ever after
ward mark for woody's gun II was
considered the only vulnerable spot about
him.
stories Of the War;
During the war incidents and anecdotes
crowded thick and fast about him. The
story goes that he followed out a dungeon
Dehea.n the Old Stone House. where he hid
the runaway slaves he caught. lie was the
dreaded foe of the underground railroad
In the tongue OF the country. he was teeth
and toe-nails for the South" Some saw II
was Tor the money that was In It. but that
may be doubted. He hung the Southern
nag out OF his window when the Yankee
soldiers were passing. Barbara Freitche
mas been extolled In song and story for that
same act on the other side. He named his
Tour children, born during the war. Beau
regard. Buchanan Virginia and Richmond.
When President Lincoin's death was an
nounced by the soldiers TO his country folk
Bull Frizzel cried exultantly:
Christ died fer sinners an Able Lincoln
right! For this he was placed under ar
rest He was taken out at sunrise the next
morning to be shot He stood there on the
Canal road savage and glaring. I'm not
afeard Of yer he cried. ''Shoot away. IL
We darep' They did not shoot him, but
took him to the old Capitol prison. where
he lay for three months.
The time came. Like other men, he had
to die. an he didn' die fghtin' nor Of any
big thing. but Jest q cold He wouldn't go
to bed until the pneumony took him bad
Two days befo he died he says 70 his wife:
MARY, stop wash!n.' fer I won't hsv
long to stay with ye.'
"One of the daughters got q priest an
ono go. n preacaer-seemed 10 me II would
hev done mo- good IL they'd hev got 'em
bcfo'. But he'd hev none OF 'em. He sent
for Woody so as to forgive him.: that was
tho oniiest religion he ever shown. But
ole man Woody he sent back word that
ned meet Bull Frizzei In hell an they
could hev II out then. Bull didn't say
much: he looked aroun' for Richmond. his
favorite son.
Where's Rich?' he asked. % Lord.
hev mercy on me. an he fell Lack dead"
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