The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-17
LED HER MEN IN THE FIGHT.
THE DARING EXPLOIT OF A TEXAS
RANCHMAN's WIFE.
How Capt" Cassie Redwinc Pursued
captured the Herd of Cattle They
Had stolen From Her Husbands
Ranch.
From the New York Sun.

Talk about nervy women said the
major. There's a woman up in the Pan
handle of Texas who is afraid of nothing,
She has hunted all SORTS of game, and kill
ed it, too; has fought the Apache and Co
manche; has herded cattle; helped to run
down horse thieves; is the best horsewo-
man on the range; can throw a lasso with
such experts as Mexican Pedro or Apache
Jack, and yet is a good housekeeper. cook
and the best nurse in the state. Everybody
on Upper Red and Canadian rivers has
heard of Mrs. Cassie Redwine.
About seven or eight years ago band
of Mexican and white robbers devastated
the Rio Grande country stealing cattle
and horses by the thousand. They must
have cleaned out fully dozen ranches and
killed at least twenty men before things
got too hot for tnem. and they left that
part of the state. The next thing heard
of the gang was a series of terrible rob
berries and murders committed in the up
per range, along the Canadian and the New
Mexican border OF course there was a
| general pursuit but it didn't amount to
anything, as the bands always succeeded
in escaping into Mexico, where the pur-
suers could not follow.
lone afternoon during Redwlne's alb
sence from his range a bunch of 800 cattle
was run off. and of course the news was
| brought in by the cowboys Mrs Red
wine had often heard of the Rio Grande
| gang of thieves, and she Immediately made
up her mind it was members of Il who
| had stolen her cattle. Instead of sending
cowboy off to San Carlos ranch, thirty
miles away, for help she called in and
hastily equipped eighteen of the best cow
| boys on the range for long ride and a
| hard fight. She didn't send out Jim Lu-
cas-, the boss of the herders, as chief, but
| took command of them herself. Leaving
half a dozen men at the ranch, with or
ders for ten more men to follow when
Redwine returned. the brave ranca wo-
man mounted her big roam horse the best
trained and fastest in the Panhandle, and
started in pursuit. Heretofore the pGr-
| suers had always followed the tral Of the
stolen cattle through the eslacado and
over the range, and as The loss was not
discovered for several days the thieves
always had start enough 10 get to the
border in advance. Instead, then, of fol-
lowing the old trail, Mrs. RedWne or
Capt. Cassie as she is Familiarity Known
to the cowboys started in a direct line
for the nearest crossing of he Graude.
L ne roe over prairie, ntStlt diiti INNS
was kept up for twenty-four hours, with
an occasional stop of a few minutes to
| rest and water the horses. Then the
band went into camp on the banks of a
small stream, the horses were watered
and picSeted out in the grass along the
banks, and the men and their leader re-
freshed themselves with a meal of dried
beef, bread and all the strong coffee they
could drink, after which they slept four
| hours under the shade Of the trees. Then
on again they went for another pull OF
eighteen hours before they stopped for
rest of more than few minutes 1t was
a hard ride; hard on men and horses, and
| one would naturally think that the wo,
man, at least, would have given out but
she didn't. The, men all said, after the
affair was over, that Capt. Cassie was the
freshest one in the party when the band
pulled up, on the afternoon of the third
day, about a mile above PecOs ford. When
the cowboys had dismounted and watered
their horses Capt Cassie told one of them
to take a scout afoot down to the ford
and ascertain whether the thieves hal
crossed at that point Arkansas Joe, vino
had been selected for the work, returned
in an hour with the information that no.
body had passed that day over the trad,
but that there were three MeXicans camp
ed on the south side of the ford.
Just what l expected, said Capt Cas-
Pecos and cross at the ford about a mile
above then come down in the rear of the
MeXicans and hold them till we get there
Joe mad no idea of what his captain
had in his mind, but, as he was there to
obey orders, he asked no questions but
Immediately started. After giving Joe's
party time enough i'm which TO accomplish
their mission. the band remounted and
after riding up the river, crossed at the
same spot at which Joe had made the ford
some time before. They then rode back be-
hind the hills and halted under cover in
the pass a quarter of a mile back of the
ford. When they drew rein near the mouth
of the pass they found three strange
horses ricketed out in narrow cove. These
they knew must belong 20 the Mexcans,
but what the greasers We're doing there
was mystery to all except Capt Cassie.
She was satisfied as 10 their business. Aft
er piCketing the animals, one of the men
was sent forward, returning in a short
time with Arkansas Joe and his men ana
the three Mexicans, who had been taken
by surprise and captured without a shot
They We're three Misunderstanding scoun-
dTels. Capt Cassie meanwhile had order
ed her men TO throw three lassoes over the
branches OF as many trees at the side of
The pass in plain view of the Mexicans
when they were brought in. When they
were taken before the captain her first in
How many men has your chief and
when do you expect him? I give you three
minutes in which 10 reply
whether il was the sight of the sway
ing ropes or the steei-bue eyes of the
armed Amazon before them that scared
the Mexicans out of their wits, there's no
telling They confessed that they were
members of the band of thieves who had
been efc behind 10 watch the crossing and
notify their chief If anything suspicious
was seen, and then gave the number in the
gang Of marauders as thrty-two. They did
not know when the gang would appear.
but looked for them by the next day at
noon al furthest.
Here you Big jim, said Capt. Cassie
when she had received this information,
take these fellows back in the brush and
let three OF the boys change clothes with
them. Then when the gang comes down
to cross, the three men dressed in the
Mexicans clothes can keep in sight of
the gang, mounted on their ponies, and re-
treat as if leading the way into the pass,
before the gang can discover the trick
1.-THE change was soon made. and the