Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-25

made a run for a nearby barn. Albro
| started in pursuit and reached the barn just
| as Williams appeared on the back of a
horse he had taken from one of the stalls.
| He fired again and the bullet struck Will
| liams in the leg. Just as Williams was
about to fire at Albro the horse SHE'D and
! the bullet went wide. Albro then man
| aged to strike Williams on the head with
| the butt of the revolver and brought him
| to the ground.
The shooting attracted number of men
| TO the spot and with their assistance Will
| liams securely tied and placed in the
wagon and brought to the city Jail, Tarks
| still driving.
City Physician Lacey was sent for and
| an examination showed that two of Albros
| shots had taken effect on Williams, both
| in the left leg One bullet was found i'm
| bedded near the knee joint, while the other
: after striking the bone. evidently passed
through. Williams, while the doctor was
probing for the second bullet, laughed and
told him he had better probe the horse
he was ON when Albro fired. as he was
sure the bullet had gone through his leg
| into the animal.
Williams appeared unconcerned and
answered the questions put to him freely
He said his name was Dave Williams and
that he had been here all summer selling
swapping and stealing horses. He said that
il the horse had not SHE'D coming out of
the barn he would have winged Albro
and probably made good his escape He
complimented Albro on his shooting and
said he was nervy man.
L A Desperate Character.
Williams appears to be about 35 years
of age and is evidently a desperate
character He is over six feet tall and would
weigh about 100 pounds. He has dark hair
turning gray at the edges and a dark nous
tache. He was dressed in rough clothes,
with blue overalls over his trousers. He
looks the typical horsetrader, or more prop
erly speaking the typical horsethief 1t is
doubtful If his right name is Williams as a
number Of receipts were found among his eff
fects made out in the names of Gregg and
Gregory. He had about $4O0 in cash on him
3 In bills which he said he had made by steal
r ing and selling horses. He was asked IL he
had stolen Laughlin's mule at Ashland. He
promptly replied he was the man. After his
< wounds had been dressed he was removed
! for safe keeping to the county Jail
While he was being searched at the city
Jail Williams asked the officers to give him
81 with which to pay Tiarks the amount he
had promised for the use of the latter's
team. When paying Tiarks Williams told
him he guessed he had not expected to gel
T into shooting scrape when he agreed tc
s drive him into town.
Williams was originally armed with two
e revolyers, but had three when captured as
t he had taken Morgans from him soon after
e leaving the grading camp. While Morgan
y was driving and Williams had him covered
- with his gun he leaned forward and took the
s revolver from young Morgans hip pocket
r remarking he guessed he would have use fol
q it.
MOrgan's story.
Morgan as soon as Williams drove off witt
l., Tiarks put up his horses at Tiarks' barn
g borrowed horse and rode into town. reach
!; ing home about 6 o'clock last evening none
$ the worse for his exciting experience. Wher
n seen last night he gave the following version
of the affair:
Hardin Moss. the constable at Loveland
received word from fathers office abou
/. noon that man wanted for stealing
- mule was in one of the grading camps
. near there and had the mule with him
: Moss asked me to accompany him and to
gether in Moss spring wagon We drove t
- the camp where we learned the man W,
; were after was eating dinner Moss wen
into the tent while i stayed outside will
the team. Moss was in there quite whil
and / went into the tent to see what wa
:. the matter Moss told me he had givel
~ |
As was moving toward the door of tn
tent with Mess, both OF us having our back
TO the horsethief, he suddenly opened fir
% on lis. Moss was hit in the back and fell
The horsethief made jump for the doc
M OF the tent and, leveling his revolver at m
: head, ordered me to jump into the wagon
% take the reins and lose no time about driv
ing him out OF the country. l did as any
= body else would have done under the crcum
RI stances, climbed into the wagon and too
the reins. The fellow jumped in behind
saying: Now look sharp, young fellow
: Give em the whip and get me out of thi
as quick as you can or | will blow you
head on
"a mot wishing to have my head blown off,
" whipped up the horses and started of at
= gallop the road toward the Bluffs. II
I said he did not know the country but fc
me to make for some railroad. Knowing tn
country well l do, | kept drivin
nearer and nearer to the city, but whe
n. We reached Crescent he seemed to catch ont