The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19

l I the party who had not liked the job of hanging dying man, and others, per- haps, who had doubts as to whether ! Dorsey deserved death for his part i' | the tragedy of the night before, which consisted in helping Tom Henry to es- cape from the dance hall after the shoot ing. Whether from fear of weakening | in his party or from the difficulty he | found in making a knot in a new rope that would hold, Mysterious Dave threw down the rope, stepped back a pace and | drew his revolver.
 Get your guns ready, boys he said. Now all together. Turn her loose. Half dozen pistols cracked together,
 and Dorsey's loud supplcations for mer- cy ended short as he went down in a heap, dead before he struck the ground. Held up by two men Tom Henry had watched the death of his two comrades, grinding his teeth in helpless rage, but saying no word. Now. before Mathes could give his orders concerning him, he spoke to the men supporting him on his feet.
 Stand me up against that post he
 said.
  helped him forward to one of the posts
 of the windmill and placed him against it, with his face to the ylnching party.
 Braced against the post, he looked at the band of men waiting their orders with drawn pistols, and at Mathes,
 thumbing his revolver with the air of a
 man who thinks that time is being vast
 ed.
 "Ive no favors to ask of you, Dave,
 he said You promised me protection
 and a fair trial, and you've lied to me.
 It's all right. I ought to have killed
 you when I had the drop on you and
 let the chance go.'
 Among the lynchers was one known
 as Curly, whom Henry knew, and he
 spoke to him.
 "'Curly,' he said I want a clean job
 made of this business. I want you to
 blow the top of my head off, Then
 strengthening himself back, with head
 erect, against the post, he shouted,
 Turn her loosei'
 There were the flame and of the vol
 ley, and Henry still stood as if nailed
 against the post. Then one more report
 was heard-it was the pistol of Curly,
 who stepped forward and fired full in
 the outlaws forehead. Henry sank
 down in heap at the foot of the post,
 and the lynchers' work was completed.
 The bodies of the two men who had been
 shot were laid out side by side on the ground beneath the windmill; the body of Jim West was left swinging from the cross-beam above-and the lynching party filed back across the plaza, to dis perse in the shadow of the jail,
 His part in the Wiping out of the Henry gang, which was really the work of his single hand, set Mysterious Dave up for a time as a useful officer in the opinion of the community. He was made marshal in place of murdered Joe Carson, and for a while things went smoothly. Then the inveterate despera- dosm and lawlessness of the mans character asserted themselves too strongly to be endured even by Las Ve- gas in 'S0. Hoodoo Brown at the time was municipal judge and police magls- trate, and this man, the degenerate son of Missouri preacher was the slckest and most interruptions official in busi- ness in New Mexico While Joe Carson was alive Brown had to conf1ne his prof its to the income derived from peddlinS out fines in assorted sizes, each fine cov- ering the precise amount the offender was supposed to be able to raise after the police had been through his pockets. With Mysterious Dave as marshal, working in cahoots with him, the police court system in Las Vegas became or ganiZed confiscation and brigandage, with a tariff on human life, and a star ing of spells by Brown and Mathes. Mysterious Dave, crafty as he was, made the mistake of bullying peaceable citizens, which is apt to prove fatal er- TOT on the part of a desperado. He had been more than suspected of complcity in certain crimes. The climax came when a stranger was murdered and robbed in Las Vegas one night and his body left at a street corner. Suspicion pointed strongly to men very near Mathes, if not to the marshal himself | The men were brought before Hoodoo Brown, and discharged after a farcical examination. At this a meeting of the committee of sixty, representing the cit izens' law and order clement, was called | and a deputation appointed to wait on Hoodoo Brown to express to him the sentiment of the community on his ac- | tion. They found the office locked and | empty, the worthy magistrate having taken time by the forelock and departed | between two days. He appeared no more in Las Vegas but was afterward | killed in Arizona.
 "Mysterious Dave was deposed from | the city marshalship, and the committee of sixty ran things for a while. Mathes | was too cunning to come in conflict with | that sient-working organization. whose grim warning, scrawled on a sheet Of pa- per tackled against the side of building, was notice enough to send the toughest desperado flying from the town But he remained in Las Vegas for a time mak- ing his mysterious goings and comings as of old, suspected by ali put giving no clue to his doings One day he was not seen in town and he did not reap- pear, which was all that any one save himself knew about his departure. He was afterward seen in Fl Paso, Tex, in company with Dave Rudebaugh who l had been the lieutenant of Billy the Kid. had made a marvellous escape from jail n Las Vegas and afterward was be- headed in Parral, Mexico. Mathes next was heard of in Dodge City, and from there came a report that he had made m unregretted departure, supposed to De in the direction of the newly discov- ared Occur d'Alene mines. Where he