The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-18

cowboys were right behind them, riding
and shooting. They couldn't get IN
range so it would be convenient to drop
so they quit shooting and made the bron-
chos climb. They never once lost sight of
them robbers. I don't know whether they'd
have caught them very soon if the robbers
hadn't made blunder.
Harry Brown the city marshal of Cald-
we'll, and Ben Wheeler, his deputy were
the head robbers. Ben was big fellow,
more than six feet high, and weighed 225.
He was too heavy for his horse and the
horse was losing his wind. So what does
they do but turns into one of the deep
canyons, thinking they could hide some
where, l reckon. Anyhow, they started
up the canyon with the cowboys after
them. 1t was deep one without any out
let at the upper end. First thing they
knew we had EN- penned in by the steep
banks of the canyon on three sides and
the cowboys on the other. 1t was a tight
place, | want to tell you, and it did not
take them long to agree to surrender and
go back to Jail guess We did promise
'em protection, leastWise we said If they
would go back with us we wouldn't hang
them on the way TO Jail. But we declined
to be responsible for accidents. That's
natural enough. How could We help 1t Il
something did happen TO them after they
got back to jail?
Course something did happen. They
knowed and we knowed that it was goin'
to- They had been caught in the act of
killing respectable citizens and they had
nothing else to expect. We put 'em in
Jail safe enough and put handouts on
them. Along toward evening the boys be-
gan to ride in from all over the coun-
try They had heard about the killing,
and after mature deliberation, it was de-
clded that the Jail was no safe place no
how, and the state had expenses enough
of its own. SO, for the good of the COM
munity, ii was thought best to make a
Nshort sure job of them and relieve our
selves from further anxiety.
along in the evening some of the boys
went up to the Jail to see how the pris-
oners was. AS / told you, they was all
ing, but when we went up there that night
they had got the irons off. How they done
it never did know, and they didn't have
time to explain. When the door was open
ed they broke for to get away. Brown got
such start that it was necessary to per-
forate him then and there He died with
out a kick. He was pretty game fell
low and was town marshal of Caldwell
at that time, as l have already remarked.
His deputy, Ben Wheeler, the big fellow,
had to be winged. They shot him so he
couldn't run and held him Tor the final
ceremonies. The other two robbers, Billy
Smith and John Wesley, was cowboys, but,
being poor runners and having been pre-
viously relieved of their Winchesters and
side arms, they were easy to handle. Be
sides the boys knowed 'em and did not
want to disfigure them. They rounded up
the prisoners and took EN- to a lone tree
handy to town and near the river
''Then the three was strung up on the
one tree. OF course as Brown had already
departed this life, they want no need OF
stringin' him up. 1t was big funeral we
had the next day, six men dead, and all
died with their boots on. 1t was the big
gest day we ever had in Medicine Lodge