The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-19
ORIGINAL BUFFALO BILL
Dwell In st. Louis and Was q
Tough Citizen.

Tough Citizen.
lie WAS KILLED ~ A BRAWL.
Interesting "Reminiscences of tho Man
Whose Title Was Taken by Colonel Cody.
The Fate of "Hnndsonc johnson" II
Murderer Whom thc Women Adorc,.
And now it appears that it is not alone
to his prowcss. exhibited in encounters
with the bison that roamcd along tn,
shores of the Platte but To II long haired,
wild eyed. stony hearted desperate, who
operated in this city in the carly half OF
the closing century, that William + Cody
Of Wild West show fame, owes his pictur
esquc title.
Dennis Dewey of st. Louis is Il man with
memory, according tn The Republic of
that city. 1t is he who from the dusty
pigconholcs of musty remembrance haS
drawn forth the time ycllowcd document
labeled memoirs of the Original Buffalo
Bill"
''It was in lSi? that Buffalo Bill tlawncd
upon the horizon of It. Louis. says Mr.
Dewey. He appeared here in the role o;
we'll digger. He had two pals. II man
named Johnson and another who's, name
l have forgotten The three dug !, we'll ror
Major Floyd. who lived in the old Prairie
House. When the work was finished thcr
was an alteration about the amount az
the payment. and the trio. or certain mem
hcrS OF it, killed the major in thc presence
of his wife. They wcro unprecedented .;non
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tween second and Third III. h,r,I =, ro
nlizc tho hittrru,ss cnrcrd,rc,, Inv, +h,+
rivalry unless Won, hov, >vitncs.nd :, 1,
was the occ,,sion of rho dc,,h of n;nc mon
mt Kinrslond 4. I1crr,,son' : fourdrv v.h;ch
stood nj the corner of Wnsbinoton ,vcn,r
and Broadway i'm tho fiftics
Buffalo BilI took sides whom thc rcIa
ed. and on one of such occasions he povc
dispute took place on Almond street
There was "A fight. which ended in Middle
ION putting an everlasting ouictus uuon
blatant Buffalo Bill Mddlcton's cn.r
came UP for trial before Judge Lakeland
torncy
legal history of st Louis. Richard Blcn-
ncrhassct was n member of the bar az that
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