The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09
CHEROKEE GIRLS VENGEANCE.
She Betrayed Her Outlaw Lover to the
Officer OF Justice.

She Betrayed Her Outlaw Lover to the
Officer OF Justice.
One of the noted characters of the
| territory, who was captured last week
in the Greenlaaf mountains, about fif-
/ teen miles southeast Of Fort Gibson, al
\ though a refugee from justice for the
4 last three years, has not been dead to
},society. In the Businesses Of those hills
land mountains, where nature has so
1avishly provided natural means Of con-
/ cealment, he was comparatively safe,
Surrounded, as he was, by friends who
Inhabited the scattered settlements
among the hills and canons, living a
free and easy life, never coming in con-
tact with the outside world, except at
his own pleasure.
Three years were spent in the midst
of these surroundings. battling the skill
and daring Of the United States deputy
marshals in their efforts to capture him,
for he had friends who warned him of
any impending danger and kept him
posted on the movements Of every sus-
picious stranger appearing in the neigh
borhood. Naturally he was not a bad
sort of a fellow, and had friends every
where in the hills, especially among the
women, who appeared to admire him
for his reckless bravery. During the
past fall and summer he made numer-
Gus trips to the nearest railroad station
when large reward was offered for his
head. riding leisurely into the town,
trading as he wanted to, and riding
away unmolested.
Among his female acquaintance was
a young and splendid looking Cherokee
girl of pleasing manners, who had
learned to love the outlaw with true de-
votion, and he professed to reciprccate
the passion. After a little While he be-
gan to grow cold, when she learned that
he lad taken up with another girl.
Then her love turned to bitter hate, and
she Ionged for revenge, for, as the poet
sings, "Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned" She knew that big reward
was standing for his capture; that the
officers. were after him in earnest, and
that she could assist them There was
to be a dance in the settlement, and she
knew that he and his latest girl would
be thers-in fact had assisted in getting
up the affair-so when the time for the
dance arrived there was a good crowd
present-the man and his new girl
among them, the very gayest of the
gay. 1t was his last chance.
There was plenty of firewater on tap.
and the outlaw drank heavily, all the
boys seeming to be his friends. He car
red a huge six-shooter strapped to his
side, ard the dance proceeded, while he
considered himself perfectly safe among
his friends.
The rejected maiden was not idle dur
ing all this time. She sent for the Off
GERS. who were waiting near by in ac-
cordance with her plans. They came
and peeped in at the windows. watching
tie outlaw in the glcry of his last revel-
ry, but though hit it best t. bide their time
until a favorable opportunity Should ar
rive-which they well knew was not far
off-when they could bag him without
for they knew that if they
to take him openly some one
would get badly hurt or killed, and
there was no sure thing of it being her
late lover. Along toward morning he |
became rip-rcaring drunk, when his |
friends took him to a house close by and |
put him to bed to sleep off his spree, |
never once dreaming that he was
doomed to awake bound hand and foot, |
1t was then that the marshas oppor- |!
tunity came They broke in upon him. |
and before he could realize the sltua-
ton he was securely bound and shack
ed, and the next afternoon he was safe |
y landed in jail, where he now lam
guishes and reflects upon the uncer-
-ainties of an outlaws life--even among
MS best friends, while awaiting the trial
and conviction and punishment that is
surely in store for hm.-Galveston
Texas News.