The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-22

| being closely pressed by a posse on ac-
| count OF "A big bank robbery down in
Longview. Texas. and that they were
pretty short OF rations which was the
reason he had rubbernecked around our
| schooner when We hove in sight
We'll my lad ] said to him. YOU
can hop IN here and feed until you bust,
even II YOU have become robber OF
! honest men. If nothing worse. But devil
the bite do your pardners with you get
and YOU don't tote any Of my stuff out
of this wagon to your camp Of killers,
either.
clifton who was already known as
Dynamite Dick. although didn't know
81. declined the invitation and shortly
aftcrward rode away with the two men
along With him.
a couple OF years after I hal gone into
business IN Guthrie. Charley Clifton walk
ed IN on me ono day with nice-loOklng
girl on his arm. This was right after the
big bank robbery at ingalls,. Okla, which
was committed by the Dalton gang and
felt pretty certain that Clifton, this for
mcr ohubby-faced boy I'd known, who
now knew was regarded as one Of the
worst desporadoes I'm the two territories
had been mixed up In the robbery. His
appearance In Guthrie liked to have taken
my breath away
" You were in that ingalls, job?' 7 said
10 him when we got away from the young
woman moment Don't YOU lie to me
boy for ! saw him waverins a bit.
'lie owned up 10 II.
"Well Well what have you come 10
Guthrie for-to get hung? l asked him.
WIFE WAS IN IGNORANCE.
"He replied that ne wasn't known In
Guthrie. and that ne had come there 20
get his wife, The y0ung woman with him
whom he had married in Kansas City
when the girl was only fourteen years
Old
" Does she know what you are?' l in
Quired OF him.
" No. said he. and she won't either if
] can help it,
Gle was put TO the ordeal on that
question not ten minutes later. He LETT
my store with his wife for "a livery STABLE
where he was 10 get team and pun 0ut
for some point he wouldn't mention 10
me-and ! didn't want 10 know. as far as
that's concerned. A. the two went down
, the street Turk Hackctt, the proprietor
| OF a faro layout i'm Guthrie. and a pretty
dangerous man. stumbled ont of a sd
LOOM drunk. and bumped against Clifton's
young wife If Clifton had been alone
Hackett would have been a dead man in
three minutes As il was Clifton set his
jaw down hard. and simply turned and
looked Hackett over Hackett returned
the stare, and then, with the imprudence
Of drunkenness-he didn't know Clifton
( from Adam-he walked up TO the des-
/ perado
Don't like the bumpin' game Ell.
| Petey? he said. leerng. But you1l get
used to il down in this country. Have
/ another and he gave as bad a man as
/ there was I'm the Southwest a shove with
/ his right shoulder that almost threw him
/ off his feet. Then he stood and laughed
maudlinly Clifton walked up to his
wife
Come on. Grace he said and the
/ two walked on down the street
Three months later Hackett moved
/ with his flyer faro layout to Southwest
! City. Mo. II was only a week after he
had made the move that Charley Clifton
walked I'm on him one afternoon before
/ the game had opened up for play.
| lot of hangers-on were standing around.
Clifton approached Hackett from behind
and tapped him on the shoulder.
Have you got any tolas with you?'
| Clifton asked Hackett.
That's a monkey question 10 ask,
replied Hackett. "Ives always got EN-
On me- What's TT to you%
Because replied Clifton. I've always
made il u practice not 20 Kill an UNI
armed man Il can help IT, And I'm
going 20 Kill you as soon as you get TO
your feet and face me-
'Hackett was on his feet snd facing
him i'm half a second and he was dead
two seconds later. The hangers-on never
made a move. Clinon's horse was out
side with nobody after hlm-for only
few months before the Dalton gang
had robbed a bank in Southwest city ana
killed "a number Of citizens IN the break
away and the people in the town had got
all they war ted of bad-man chasing
DUEL WITH BILL DALTON.
"The story about CHftons handkerchief
duel with Bill Dalton was on the level
The two men had been growing about
the division of plundcr for a long whine,
until, alb 'ut seven years ago. the quarrel
came to head. and the two men shot
at each other in hot blood down in The
Choctaw country, both missing because
their shooting arms were thrown up by
members of the band. Then both Daton
and Clifton made a declaration. There
wasn't ICCm for both OF them IA the same
gang. They were a unit on that point.
Clifton announced that he would quit
the outfit and start a gang of his own.
Dalton wouldn't have this. probably ont
Of ar as much as from selhslness.
AN right said Clifton. then we hght
this thing out at powder singeing range,
and the man that lives. if either of US
does live. runs this outfit
There was liquor aboard OF al hands
az the time of this talk. and both Clifton
and Dalton were at least half-drunk, as
Wakeman. who was a member Of the
garg at the time, confessed when he was
locked up in Guthrie The duel was
quickly arranged. With their guns in
their right hands. the two men grasped
the ends Of a bandanna handkerchief with
their left hands, and stood back to back.
Cal Forman. one Of the worst members
OF the gang, gave the command TO fire.
Dalton lurched as he turned to fire. and
his pistol was discharged prematurely.
Clifton got Dalton I'm the right shoulder.
and gave him a bad wound Neither man
having been killed as was anticipated.
Clifton quit the gang forthwith and form
cd the organization Of his own that ter.
rorized the two territories until the leader
was rounded up Chicago Inter-Ocean.
VERDICT FOR SNYDER & co,