The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-20
NET BEETLE EMPr1Es THrRE SADDLES.


ended in blood, she succeeded In capturing
cattle owner who had q magnificent haci-
enda in northern Mexico. They were mar
ried and the old Nightmare" as she
called him, took his little bride to his
country home. In less than two months
the old don was in his grave, and Net was
engaged in the pleasant pastime of spend
ing his millions. Heirs turned up who
laid claim to the estate, instituting legal
proceedings that threatened danger to the
peace and safety of the desperate woman
Foreseeing that she was liable to learn
something of the Mexican penal code, the
maiden mounted q fine horse and rode to
q ranch on the Rio Grande where she
knew there was q large herd Of cattle be-
longing to the estate of the old don. Hero
she performed a feat which would hardly
have been dreamed of by the most hard
ened desperate. She ordered the vaqueros
to round up the herd and drive 1t toward
the Rio Grande, and when they refused
she shot one dead and made another leave
the camp. She was dressed in her proper
apparel at the time, but later in the day
she resumed the buckskin leggings and
jacket Of a cowboy, and, mounting a fine
horse, pistol in hand, she compelled the
trembling poems to drive the whole herd
of 1000 steers across the Rio Grande. It
took her a year to turn the herd into gold,
but she succeeded in doing it, In the mean
time making several trips to Chicago and
St. Louis, frequently stopping at the best
hotels, where her sex was never known,
She now had money enough to have
lived in luxury for the remainder Of her
life, but after making q trip to Europe b
tired of travel and longed for her old 1ife
on the plains. She returned to the west
and bought a ranch near Flagstaff, A. T.,
determining to settle down and lead q
quiet life. 1t was not long before the in
nate deviltry pent up inside of her anatomy
got the better of her judgment She in
some way incurred the enmity of a neigh
boring rancher, who had a very pretty
wife, and instead of killing the man, as
one familiar with her career expected her
to do, she did something much moro as
founding.
She made love to her enemy's wife and
induced her TO fly with her to FL Paso.
Net had so carefully planned the extraer-
binary piece Of deyiltry that she never lost
a dollar and succeeded in running her
enemy's home for life. She carried her
money in her pocket, and when she had
succeeded in Turing her victim into a room
in a hotel in 81 Paso she revealed her sex
and left her. The unfortunate woman
told her enraged husband a true story, but
he never believed it, and the affair ended
in a divorce aud q ruined home.
A cowboy who bad at some time rem
dered Net a great service was tried for
murder in one of the border counties and
sentenced tt be hanged. The woman
heard Of her friends troubles, and his dis
tress touched her heart. She resolved to
save his life. She went TO the little town
OF a half q dozen houses and took q look aB
the Jail in which her friend was confined
There was no other prisoner in the jail,
and one might when the sheriff came to
bring q supper to the cowboy he felt the
muzzle of a pistol at his ear and heard the
words, Throw up your hands!'' He had
just opened the front door of tho jail
MAKE the least noise said Net, land
I will blow out your brains"
She made him release her friend and
fAen they bound the officer hand and foot
and locked him in q cell. Net had two
fast horses near by and a Winchester for
her friend. They rode rapidly toward the
Bio Grande. A posse of Texans were in
hot pursuit, and at daylight, when they
were within o few miles of the river, the
escaping prisoners horse became lame.
Tho Texans overlook them, o battle en-
sued, and the cowboy fell mortallv
wounded at the first fire. Net would not
desert her eomrade. A blaze Of fire poured
from her Winchester, and three horses be-
longing to the posse galloped across tho
prairie with empty saddles. The girl at
tempted to help her dying eomrade mp be-
hind her on her horse. He urged her to
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