The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-05-19
AR|l|Z0NA'S LONE R0BBER

was next heard of 200 miles away months
later. -.
THE most remorseless. cold-blcoded
men 1 ever knew have had unusually
tender spots in their hearts, which they
tried to conceal as if it were a gricvous
! fault. Once when a dance hall at Globe
burned down and baby was burned,
Jack Herring, the meanest fellow in the
whole camp, was affected to tears when
ever the burning Of that baby AS men
toned for weeks after. Bill prazleton
was the same way. lie held up the Ben
son and Dening stage in a narrow ut
| among the foothills once, and y hen he
saw woman, whose new black earb
showed she was a recent widow, he said:
| Well, madam, who are you:
| am the widow of So-and-so."
How long has he been dead:' asked
the robber as he stood with~a revolver
in each hand. s y,
i" Three weeks was the reply
We'll, I need money mighty bad, but
I'd die before I'd touch a widows. Now,
gents, you just chuck out to me what
| change you can spare, and I'll call it
square. It's worth something to be held
up by Bill Brazleton. You'll have some
thing to brag about the rest. of your
lives go
with that there were some silver and
gold pieces handed out Of the; stage WIN
dow, and the robber told the driver to go
ahead - - a. gE----t - 49,
I'm 1879 there occurred the most start
ling robbery that had yet taken place
It was committed at point not far from
prescott. There was 500, 600 or $40 600
in the possession of! the guards, whose
oho, l1o,5@
was being driven along it was noticed
that a. big brown horse was tied to a
cactus tree at the roadside, a few yards
further on a man with a gunny sack over
his face sprang into, the road. Throw
up your hands and throw out the box
was the order peremptorHy given The
| first man who moves Ial kill him. I'm
| dead shot At the same time he covered
the driver with two revolvers, one in each
hand. Every one laid down his gun Then
he ordered all to stand back from their
arms Next he commanded the box to
be broken open. z His orders were obeyed,
the money was taken and the lone high
Wayman rode away. .ss ~
- Next there was q robbery, committed
on the stage between Silver City, N NJ,
and FL Paso, Tex. Again it was done
by the lone highwayman. Seven Next
cans followed him. The seven We're SUBJ
sequently found dead on the road The
! way he killed them he afterward ex-
planned, was this: He lay down on the
| desert to rest, when he discovered that
his armed pursuers were close upon him.
He jumped on his horse and rode fast
until he got them strung out. Then he
shot the men one by one: until five were
killed. The other two fed. He followed
| and killed them also. No one was left
to tell the tale and. for a, long time it
| was thought the seven came, to their
| death at the hands of Indians
The next robbery was that of Cali
| fornia stage, and this occurred Just a few
miles west of Tucson. The stage was
| being driven through q country compare
| lively free from crime. Among the pas
| sengers was John P. Clum, formerly en-
| gagged in the postoffice department at
Washington, and John Miller, editor of
a newspaper at Tombstone, Ariz The dri-
Yer was telling the story of the last rob-
berry when the lone highwayman stepped
forward with the words, Here T am
| again, boys. Who have you here?
| A peace officer and an editor REPLIED
the driver.
| Well, peace officer and editor, stem
stepped out accordingly -
| 1"Clum had $3.50 and Miller had $40.
which they gave up. g.. ..
81 want some money for brea kfast.'
I said Miller s
| What will half years subscription
to your paper cost? asked the highway
man. Fl. 80 =. Y Y f''Nt
:" Five dollars .rs.
| = Here, take it.
Where will 1 address it?' asked Mil.
Ter. 3s@s@A @rs
Address it to HE'LL said trA high.
| w2Tman. Get In there now and keep
| your mouth shut
"Ex-Gov. l.. G. Hughes of Tucson was
| then United States district attorney, and
| he discovered the first cluetto the frotber.
| man named Davis Nimitz was found
riding a, horse corresponding in every
point With that CT the lone EtgbrT ayman
The district attorney ordered the arrest
| Of Nimitz, who was induced to confess
Then United States Marshal futile of
Tucson devised a scheme for capturing
Brazleton. 1t was planned that Ninitz
| should break out Of jail and escape to
| Brazeton's hiding place in the San
5Gorgonia mountains. This was done, and
I
him the next night Nine of the ner.-iest
| men and best shots in Tucson .wers. ehoS-
en- to help .i1e officers in getting B-azle.
ton One man, who rezernb!ed Nim.tz,
was chosen to personate him. The posse
went steaItkiiy Up into the mountains,
and took places behind rocks overlooking
the scene of the proposed meeting be-
tween Brazleton and Nimitz. Every man
| was well armed. It was slightly moon
fight
according to Instructions the man
VINO nad been chosen to oersonatc Nj
| I1lltz crouched down the mountain side
amid the bouiders and granite rocks The
man who impersonated Nimitz cougiied
twice, and then Brazieton cousqed three
| times as nc drew nearer. The ether man
was TO have couga-a again, but he was
100 ncryots. Braziet5n seemed assured
THAI it ~as al right. ard he ran for
ward, with his rifle across his shoulder, 10
| meet the supposed Nin.itz
Z Come, lets go and pack up, he said.
just at hat moment he saw that the man
was not Nimitz. He whirled about to
Get his Clutch on his rife while the man
before Kim raised his pistol Both men,
I ho5gcver, were too slow. The eight con-
cca.sd men among the rocks round about
Erred voliey ard Brazleton sank on the
GARTH He gasped:
/ a:2ped trapped! trapped and
sd claoissig WITH hioed. Los afgeies
ise "a Correspondence New York sun
Kind Gentlen1an man. you are on
ne wrong pa tn. have watched YOU.
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