The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18

wax on the flap and told the Ranger to
read them when he got back to Browns
ville then return them to him. McNaily
did So These orders for some time
| formed a part of the archives of Texas
and were burned with the old Capitol
years ago,
Acting under these orders, Lieut.
| armstrong subsequently famous as the
man who captured singlehanded and
| brought back from Florida the notorious
man killer John Wesley Hardin, left
Brownsville at the head of fifteen of his
best troopers. They rode due north
along the banks of he turb!d river. To
this day the inhabitants speak of this
wild journey as the red ride. The men
Slew and spared not. Meeting one of
| the rCStlers, he was stopped and asked
| his name. Always he lied. PARROT was
called to the front with his book of tin
| types. He showed the portrait with the
name written across the back. The
corpse was left unburied and the sangui-
| nary procession moved steadily on.
Sometimes relatives Of the dead man
came along and put the body under
ground, and when they did not the yell
loW-trimmed Vultures We're plentiful
and they took care of it. Between
Brownsville and Bona Vista in laval
la county, where the raid ended, one
hundred desperadoes were shot to death.
The absence of telegraph wires explains
the failure of the hunted ones to get
out of the way. They did not know that
death was coming until it arrived.
There is no record in this or foreign
countries of such another series of sum-
1,n1 cinpla W. pf Gnph
nature that the man engaged in 1t
were afterWard induced to speak of it
only with difficulty The lesson was
effective After a purse hung up by the
roadside would remained untouched for
a year. Parrot, whose daring and in
genuity were mainly responsible for the
success of the officers, quit the service
in another year and moved to Waco.
Then he went further West and has
disappeared from public ken, McNally
is dead Armstrong is in business.
The last killing made by this flying
column of eXecutioners occurred on the
banks of Espentosa lake. in the upper
part of Dimmtt county. There lived
in that region a rustler named John
Martin, one of the most reckless and
determined scoundrels that ever ter
rorized the West He had five men in
his band as brave and lawless as him.
self, For some time the exact location
of his camp had been unknown. He
moved about a great deal in the chap
arral though he had no fear of officers,
and, as much as possible kept his move
ments dark. Martin was rs years old,
South Carolinian and the son of
wealthy planter When the Ranger de-
tachment reached Dimmtt county they
captured a desperate named Charles
Smith, known as Black Charlie. He was
the only prisoner taken in the raid,
remarkable brushman and trailer and
they needed his services. Smith sub
sequently entered the service and was
killed in Laredo With a revolver pol1ed
against his abdomen, he agreed to guide
his captors to Martins camp. lie ac-
complished it by striking a single horse
trail and following it in dusk and dark
sometimes at trot, explaining that he
knew it was a ridden horse by the length
and regularity of its stride. They
reached Martins camp on the bank of
the lake at 10 o'clock at night, with n
small moon shining low down and they
opened fire without a word Martin
leaped erect with a siX-shooter in his
hand and his companions fought as
gamely. 1t did them no good. In two (
minutes they were all down, only one
of them showing any sign of life. This
was a fellow named McAllister, native |
of Arkansas. AS the Rangers finished I
their examination of the bodies, mount |
ed their horses and started to depart, |
he stirred family and asked for water. |
One of the Rangers got down, went to |
the lakes edge. filled hat and gave I
him drink. Then, stirring up the camp I
fire, he made hasty examination of the T
woundh. The man had been 7
shot twice through the body, once I
the right knee and through the I
neck He relapsed into unconsciousness [
as soon as he got the water and, think 4
ing that the victim had only a few min .
utes to live, the Ranger remounted and (
rode after his companions. In this par
ty We're two Mexicans named Victor I
and Antonio. Both were from far down
in the Sister Republic and were used by /
he state troops as detectives. Wien the
band had ridden a half-mile from Es-
pentosa lake, Victor whispered to his
and they dropped to the rear
In the dark. Victor said that it was
Dad tnlng TO leave the upSpPfdQO TO mn I
ger in agony for possible hours, and a
still worse thing to leave him to get
well. He believed in making a clean
Job of it, Antonio agreed, so they rode
1apdly back to the camp paying no
attention to the bodies lying about, they
went straight to McAlister, who was
slightly. STOPPING over him,
Antonio shot him through the body and
Victor shot him through the head They
turned back his eyelids examined his
eyes by the light of a match knew that
lie was sure enough dead and rode away.
The next afternoon some people from the
title town of Carrie Springs fifteen
niles distant went to the camp to bury
he corpses and found some signs Of life
n McAllister They nursed him for
'iX months, when he was able to get
]ut. Five years afterward he was
eaching school in Friotown and pieces
If bone were then eXfoliating from his
aw just below the ear, where Victor's
asst shot entered.--New York Sun.