The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-09
"A BAD MAN WAS
"0VERLAND D0C"
Was Chain-Lightning With His Pair
Of Heavy Guns.
He CLEANED OUT A FAR0-BANK.
Made the Owner Throw His OUTFIT
Through the Window aud Then
TolIow IL Himscli-Love Feast
Followed by Death.
He CLEANED OUT A FARO BANK.

last spring" said an Inspector OF ihu'"i'
Aron.ies who dropped into Washington
last week. III Hughes has succumoed 10
tho frost and the scurvy. I'll bet poncho
De gave them both run for their auburn
CHR. When I knew him. back IN the early
eighties and later when the Creole ex-
element was putting the hectic flush
into the checks Of an the old-tmers. he
was so daunucss that / used to think it
would take nothing short OF bolt Of
lightning 90 get the breath cut of him
Hughes wasn't afraid Of anybody. He
stuck up some good men Ia his day, at
the point OF HIS old sawed-off irons-not
I'm the way of depriying them Of their
fust. or anything Ike that. but because
Be wanted 10 indicate that he was on
lland. reht there. and in the game.
Hughes must be Looping towards fifty
years Of axe ir he's alive now. lie began
uoslng around I'm Colorado, Nevada. New
Mexico and Arizona for pay rock when
he was a young fellow. and he struck u
right three times. But he always sold
out before developing. just because ne
needed the money. and then he had 10
SIT AROUND. without "a white chip on his
person. and watch the fellows who had
bought his claims for a few thousands
take hundreds OF thousands out OF the
ground He never made any kick about
the financial end of 10. though
a." All the fun get out Of 1t is in finding
g. anyway he used 20 say. with the true
spirit OF the Quartz-chaser.
A BAD MAN.
Hughes was pretty bad man. He had
lot o. nofches OBJ his gun-stock before
.f N.H B.
poned 90 him after / knew him. His nick
name. overland Doc sounds as if he had
been sawbones. he wasn't. The name
was fastened to him because. one time
when he was shot twice In the shoulder
by a prospecting partner Of his down in
New Mexico De straddled his cayuse and
rode cignty-0ve miles between sunset and
sunrise 90 get medical attention al the
nearest settlement. lie was In daze
from loss OF blood when the cayuse Stun
bie1 into the settlement and then rolled
over dead-incidcntaly rolling on Hughes
soms-and after that the boys dubbed
him Overland Doc.
He did one OF the nerviest jobs OF his
life in Durango Col, I'm 49, He had
brother living there. a young fellow in
his twenties. Hughes looked upon his
brother as a good deal of "a dude. and
didn't have much commerce with him.
one day overland Doc got a letter from
this young brother of his. saying he
boon abused in Frank Bratton's brace faro
bank in Durango The young man stated
in his letter that De had gone mp against
Brattons game, and that after the phony
bank had got an Of his gilt. some 500,
Bratton and his bunch had dropped him
ont 81 a second story window and broken
his leg.
AFTER TROUBLE.
Hughes was in Lcadvile when ne got
this letter. but DE made a Decline for
Durango ten minutes after DE got DO.
Now this Frank Bratton nav was a
pretty evil eczebu FOR anybody TO play
tax with He'd been running a brace
game an over the Southwest and the
Rocky country for years. and he d never
been known 10 blanch when the toughest
and hottest OF his victims had started in
10 puncture the fixtures after dropping
their money He'd always stayed right
along until the shooting was over, and
thin. II any trouble over dead people
doomed mp in front of him. he'd just fold
up his layout and move ON TO the next
stand. He was "a gln-lanner. knife
Gghter and "a Hercules an iu one. and
UP 20 tho time of the incident I'm going
90 tell you about he'd never been called.
"Bratton ran four tables at his Durango
OUTFIT and he'd picked everyone of The
four loollouts for their Quickness on the
trigger and their shreWoness IN SIZING
un In advance the fellows who looked Ike
thov were going 90 shoot Hughes knew
Erqtton. and he know an about those
four sudden guys who sat I'M the look
outs chairs. too All the same at DO
o'clock on the night after be had gotten
that letter from his younger brother. he
turned zap az the entrance 10 Bratton.s
LAYOUT HE hadn't been 10 see his
broken legged brother 40 an. lie just
wanted 90 see Bratton. There was a
preaser on the door and the greaser tried
10 fcn Hughes that he couldn't get In
for Rrattou fancyng that Hughes the
,f5er rofqhf be- along had so instructed
t. s,or,,an rIughos rave tho qre9sor a
.t.. d., .t. f,ro and .bon tho foot trim
s,nr hir and tho next instant he was
,,e,da tho LAYOUT waving both of his
.t...1 ..es s.-.,.-e,.,s er.r, si1o ~ side
49,. -.,i,. ~. .o,..r. r,rstto, who sat
Al. o,.1 .t,. fo,,, loolor.s Inns Inc
80. t,,,,,t 10 feilovss who SAT nlavinr AZ
wn'is uu'' ~. '
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NOW. II would nave oeen me Simplest
thing in ite for any one OK those -FOUR
look-outs % have poSea his hand INTO the
drawer OK 'he eeuel nearest nm ana 70
have got The ready -to-hand gun out LOT ac-
ton. 10 would have heen taking a chance,
Of course Tor Overland Doc was known