The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-02
LOOKING INTO TIE aozzLE OF 4 SIX sHoorEI

K N I The MuZZLE OF StA SdOolhl
Texas correspondent of the St. Louis
Posf-Dispateh. He came to Texas in
1876, leaving In the states to the east a
score of which any professional man killer
ought to be proud. His total kills were
five negroes and two white men, and
he was not thsn 80 years Old. 1t is thought
that he came out west because his own
country had grown too hot.
In November, 1879, Haworth attended
a country dance in Pamela county, near
the river. At this dance WAS a young
stranger who had come out Of the west,
a slender, blue eyed fellow, with a thin,
aquiline nose, prominent cheek bones and
a dropping, yellow mnstache that hid a
thin Tipped mouth running straight
across his face like a cash. This was
Bill Longley, already six times a killer
in his own section and destined in the
next two years to become one Of the most
celebrated sIayers of the southwest.
He did not know Haworth, and Ha-
worth did not know him. There is d pc
culiar a~ntagonism, however, between
men Of this class. Drawn by some force
of which they are unconscious, they get
together invariably, no matter what the
size of the crowd. About 10 O'Clock Ha-
worth, pretty drunk, and Longley, cold
sober, were conycrsing in a corner Of
the room, while the dancers occupied the
center Of the floor. The talk began
about horses. It went from horses to
women and from women to weapons.
From weapons it went to the use of
weapons and some argument as to the re-
spectiYe merits Of the takers. An in
slant thereafter Haworth fell at full
length. He had been struck in the
mouth. He leaped up, the blood yelling
through his red beard, and when he gain
ed his feet he was looking into the nluz-
zIe of a cooked six shooter within a foot
of his lace.
He did not speak, and his hands e
up as II they had been jerked by strings.
His eyes were half closed, and he trem-
bled slightly. Longiey leaned forward
and repeatedly jammed the muzzle of
the pistol against the mans lips and
checks. Slowly he was backed to the
door, the savage six shooter denting his
flesh with every step. He was taken in
this fashion to his horse and made to
mount. Longley told him that il he was
found in the county the next day he
would be killed. He rode away in the
dark, still silent and thoroughly eowed.
AHStffc HIS UdQGutuDiS DtdtGLy LIT iSAA
Panoia county that night filed with a
blind, dumb terror of his conqueror.
Haworth was stabbed to death in New
Mexico il 1888.
In the next year Longley killed seven
mel in eastern Texas. Three months
after his arrival in that region his bust
ness became pretty well known to the
people. He was a hold up man, and his
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that carried one or two passengers and
country stores. Early in 1880 he went
west for awhile and in a barroom in Vic
toria met King Fisher, whose reputation
was then at its height. Fisher was born
in Goliad county, and his right name was
John King. He was slender, like Long
ley, but OF an olive complexion. His
eyes were dark blue and his mustaehe
black. His face was exceedingly hand
some. and he was one Of the most expert
as well as one of the most graceful riders
the west has ever known. He assumed
the name OF Fisher when he left his ma
tive couafy. There was a good deal Of
the romantic and debonair about him,
and a history of his exploits would fill a
book.
His trail and Longley's had not crossed
until their Victoria meeting. But they
knew each other by nearsay, and there
could be but one result of the meeting
They drank together and took cigars to-
gethef, and had another drink and squaf-
cd off for a taIls each leaning an elbow
on the counter and noticing every move
mont OF a finger. From the first It seem
ed that Fishers personality had q de-
pressing effect upon Longley. SONY
thing that the fearless seoundrel could
not explain OF understand was Juggling at
his heaftstrinEs. and rs the apparently
Durposeless conversation went "a be