The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-28


next week. Il is said that he wants 90
be marshal Of the new town. and his
friends from Texas are boosting him. one
OF them is quoted in The Chickasha tx
press as follows;
Bat our marshal OF Caldwell. Kan.
is also spoken of as the chief OF police
Of Lawton. It was he, when no one else
would accept the position. stepped for
ward in the early days of Caldwell and
gave his word that nc would protect the
people and property with his life II neces-
sary. Did he do it, Well. 1 guess. re-
marked on old admirer as he wiped the
Precipitation from his forehead. lie just
took a gun and hogged THREE the first
day he was on the force. lie had been
shot all to pieces. but he is good one
yet. and I want to see 'Old Bat get
there"
There are several old Caldwell people
here-men who were active in the events
of the town when bat was marshal
They smiled when they read the above
eulogy on the famous Bat Henry IL
Breten. better known as "Freuchy." was
at Caldwell running a big game when
Bat was there. Dave Sharp was also
there, az were the Splker boys and T. A
Cooksey.
Let me laugh" said one old timer in
Caldwell when he read about Bat pulling
his gun and getting three men the first
dav he was on the Caldwell force I'D
like to show that piece TO Bin Fosset ard
Bedford Wood Wouldn't they laugh.
though when they would read how he
was all shot to piece That ought to De
published 50 that Johnnie Blair az Med
ford. Billy Malaley az Hcnnessy. Pat
O'Connor out at Gcary ia Hockaday
up at Kingnsher ard Ben Key over az
Woodward could read f. lt would do
them more good than a trip to the noun
talns.
"Did I know Bat CARR Wei. 7 should
say so. 7 saw him when he first struck
Caldwell after George Brown was killed.
Albert CoIson became mayer after Tall
hott and his gang killed Mike Meaehcr
and 70 was he who imported bat from
Texas. Bat never cracked "a gun In Cald-
well. except 10 kin a dog. and nobody
ever took q shot NJ him. He newer even
had fist FIGHT or a scrap of any kind
except the dav ne left when he jumped
on r. X. Brown, n light and slender little
fellow who was a telegraph operator at
the Santa Fe depot and boxed h's ears
without cause. He was starting for Texas
on a visit. and the townspeople became -
Indignant over his assault on James
without cause or reason. that they reti-
toned the mayor % notify him that be
would not be needed again az Caldwell"
you are wrong there said a by
stander II was On Caldwell myself az
the time and 7 know exactly why Bat
did not come back Don't you remember
that night that Bats assistant Henry
Brown. who was afterwards lynched 90
Medicine Lodge. wanted % XIII Freuchy2
Don't YOU remember that be met BIN
there between the Leland hotel and Dan
saloon and began pounding him
over the head with his gun til he bled
ike n stuck hog7 Brown was about %
shoot Frenchv when Bat Carr slipped w
behind him ard snatche5 Che gun out %
his hand. Brown smiled that siclr'y smile
Of his and reached ONT 20 set his gun
from Carr afte- Frenchv bad been taken
home almost dead Whan Carr hsrfed
the gun back 20 Brown the latter threw
IS down On him. ard z have beard % Pc
lated that Brown said % BIN. BAT fhif
town is too small FOR both ~ us % I've ia
7 want 20 stay here q little while longer
whether ~ said this er not don't know I
~ ny o7r knovledge. bar 20 is cutie rure I
that Bat carr took p vacation srf rerer 7
came back That was o1 che second Day I
~ December nineteen years aTa
~ This time another o'1 CalfHcu ac- I
1uaIntance n 1fr Clrrs came ard re- 4
lated his experience