The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

the rifle. This weapon was never far way
from Nadeau's hands at any time and
was now leaning against the side of the
hut near bed. The room was about ten
feat vide by twelve feet long and around
table on the centre of the room the
lumbermen and Nadeau were standing.
The lumbermen had each been shaking
dice for the drinks with the outlaw be-
fore Prescott's arrival. When the deputy
marshal, disguised rs lumberman,
stepped into the small room, Nadeau
shouted out to him, "come and shake
dice with me for the drinks. If you win
I'll treat. Ii win you treat''
fAll right" said Prescott, as cool as
cucumber, or refrigerator full of ice,
l. II GO you one"
The officer walked up to the table be.
side Nadeau and began to sake. Each
man shook six times and Nadeau won.
The deputy marshal laughed at his fail
ure and 'acoideatly on purpose" as the
boys say. knocked one Of the dice off the
table on to the floor. As Nadeau stopped
to pick up the dice PRESCOTT struck him
a blow which knocked the outlaw off b is
feet and he sprawlei out on to the floor.
Quick as flash Nadeau was on his feet,
and grabbed his rife, butt before he
could use it PRESCOTT struck him blow
over the head with his billy and laid the
man who wouldn't be Uakep alive, sense
less on the floor of his dwelling.
Nadeau. the outlaw and desperate was
prisoner in jiffy, and when be re-
covered consciousness he soid; "You'vu
got the drop OH me this time PRESCOTT. I
am willing to 60 with you," and as
double irons confined the mans limbs
Prescott rather though he would.
The blow which knocked out Nadeau
hnd cut q bad cash in bis head, and this
wound Prescott dressed. AS he was do
ing it Nadeau said. "You wouldn't have
got me if | had had the rife in my
hands. ia have killed you PRESCOTT.
"No you wouldn IT, said Prescott,
'for / would have shot you first"
Nadeau will be arraigned in the United
States court this morning on the charge
of selling liquor without an United
States license, ASSAULT with intent to kill
Deputy Marshal Prescott, AMI assault on
mail carrier named Moshier, whom
Nadeau nearly killed once.
Deputy Marshal Presoott was not
allowed to 60 to bed at the United States
hotel last night until he had told the
story Of his arrest of Nadeau at least a
dozen times.
81 thank God that Nadeau didn't get
the drop on me second time" said Mr..
PRESCOTT as he babe his friends and the
reporters good night. "If he had I'm
afraid would have been dead man.
and the deputy marshal who has had the
honor of capturing single handed the
most noted desperate Maine has ever sean
went up stairs to bed taking Nadeau's
rife along with him.
Nadeau spent last night in Portland
Jail. He is n medium sized man of very
powerful build, weighing about one
hundred and fifty pounds. HiS COM
plexion is swartby, and he looks like a
half breed. 1t is said that he has some
Indian blood in his veins and his temper
would surely bear out this assertion. Ma
deau is twenty seven years old and has q
wife and young child. He talks good
English and is very Intelligent Many
stories of Nadeau's cruelty and lawleAs-
ness are told and the people of Aroostook
regard him as the worst man the state
ever had.