The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-09-28


Harry Tracy. He was an information
al character before his death. But he
is only one Of the celebrated outlaws
whom this country has produced.
Quantrell was the first OF the modern
outlaws. He began on the Southwest
ern border before the war His orig
inal band. formed in 1859. was com
posed Of eight men, But in six months
it had grown TO thirty men, of which
Cole Younger, of the dreaded Younger
brothers, made one. Coles brother got
in later, and it was not until the pres
tige OF Quantrell had been dimmed
that this precious pair gained wide no.
toriety.
Quantrell graduated several delecta-
be pairs of outlaws from his band
OF these the best known were Of course
the James boys One day when Jesse
James was sixteen years of age and
his brother Frank was eighteen, some
militiamen conceived it to be for the
coed of the community that they
should publicly chastise the brothers
They caught the boys on their moth
ers farm in Clay County, Kentucky
and whipped them well.
The Immediate effect of the punish
ment was to cause the James brothers
to enlist under Quantrell, from whom
presumably they learned much that
stood them wen in the many pursuits
OF which they were the object. The
whole world heard OF their daring ex
ploits of their many escapes. often
when capture seemed to be certain; Of
the raids carried on by them long after
Qunntrell had retired from the field
and the Younger brothers had ceased
to be notorious. how it was found i'm
possible to capture them until the day
when Bod Ford, a relation and in their
confdtnce shot Jesse from behind
while the latter was busting 4 picture
on the wall Of his home.
The Southwest brcathed easier when
Jesse James fell, for his death put an
end to the long career and pursuit of
his brother Frank. as well as himself
Frank James settled down in st. Louis
ard to his great credit led thereafter
respectable life
But the attitude of Billy the Kid
more nearly approximates that of
Tracy than did that of Jesse James
Billy, whose right name was William
Bonnie. whose deeds and misdeeds have
supplied subject matter for more than
one penny dreadful. was a New York
waif, who while still young. was taken
TO Indianapolis where he was raised.
He ran away from home one day, and
ever after gave himself up TO that
thirst for notoricty which character
lied him. His first enemy" was John
Chisum, his employer, whom he swore
to kill for a trifing matter of dispute
over wages.
In the East he. at his age. would
probably have been clapped into jail
along with Jesse Pomevoy and other
Youngsters with a thirst for blood, but
on the edge OF Deaths Valley men
rather believed in the right of the ven
dettist TO create his own laws. lie be
came the most feared man in the
Southwest. and he was careful to EOS
ter his reputation.
His vanity was great. aud it con
stantiy fed upon itself. until almost no
risk was too great for him to run. He
walked into towns. killed his men. ana
openly defied arrest General Lew Wal
lace met him while the arthur OF Ben
Hur' was Governor OF New Mexico
and arranged to have him testify at
a coming trial. lie submitted to arrest
and was placed in Jail heavily hand
cuffed at his own request. This was
either vanity or q desire for obvious
reasons to contribute to the desperate
character OF his reputation.
None Of the jailers was in the secret
Of his arrest, Yet one day he announced
that he was tired of Jail life.
The handouts dropped from mis-
wrists, the doors opened. and he rode
away They said it was hypuotism,
but later, when he was actually cap.
tured in earnest Ivy Sheriff Garrett and |
confined to Lincoln County Jail. New |
Mexico, after being sentenced to death |
it was not hypnotism that got him |
off.
Nine men stood guard over him ana |
there was not 4 moment when at least |
one was not watching him. When he
was sentenced he told the Judge he
would never hang, and it was so. One
day he caught the sentinel who was
supposed TO watch him Off his guard
1t was at meal time on the day before
that set for the execution.
The one man at dinner with him
leaned over TO pick up something. Billy
Drained bin instantly with his man
acles. and picking up the dead mans
revolver. marched boldly from the jail.
Again he began his rowing life, defying
pursuers right and left, and yet appar-
emily not taking even ordinary precau-
ton. Some time afterward he was
shot and killed by Sheriff Garrett. who
had sworn to take him dead or alive.
Another career similar to that of
RYacy's was that of Newt VOrce. who
got into a shooting scrape with Deputy
Sheriff 6. Is. Hollingsworth near Deer