Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-11-28


Harry Tracy raised some hula
baloo for while all right remarked
an old Westerner. but he never COM
mitted q murder after his own death,
ami that's what an OUTLAW I know of
once did. It was about twenty years
ago. At that time was a deputy
marshal in Utah. The principal BUSH
ness for the marshals office them
days was catchin' 'cohabs and cattle
ristlers. What's a 'cohabe' Why,
he's a gentleman that ISM satisfied
to have one wife nestlin' in his buzz
yum, but wants to have three or four
or dozen.
well, as | was sayin', there was q
whole heap of cattle rustlers there N
them days, an one of the worst of
EN- was a fellow named Bill Dawse.
Bill sure was bad one. He'd come
up on bunch of cattle at night, some
times all alone, cut out few steers
and make off. If. the men ridin' herd
tried to interfere, the chances were
that one or more of 'em w3nld soon be
ridin' the golden range If they didn't
go to q worst place, an guess most
of 'em did that last.
"Cap'n Story was United States
marshal then. an he made up his
mind that Bill Dawse would have to
quit his foolin'. and do it righ. quick.
So the next time he heard Dawse ad
been dom some funny work he took
me an another fellow an we started
out from Salt Lake. u was near Too
ele that Dawse had been seen. an at
Tooele we got lot Of Mormon farm
ers to help make up posse.
ut wasn't much troubls to find
Dawse. He wasn't the kind that would
run away from trouble. He sent warsl
to Cap'n Story where he was. an that
he didn't propose to be taken by the
marshal. nor even the whole Territory
of Utah. He also gave it out cold
that if a posse came after him the
first man he'd shoot would be Cap'n
Story He expected to pick off the
rest at his leisure, he said. This fel-
low Dawse could hit a two-bit piece
at hundred yards ten times -unr'n' +,
so it was no joke to go after him when
he showed he was some determined.
This didn't seem to worry Cap'n
Story a bit, and he didn't have much
trouble in gettin a posse. We caught
up with Dawse in the foothills along
the west side of the Oquirrh Noun.
tains He hid himself in the bru. II
behind some rocks ind when we got
within range he began to burg away
Sure enough. the first shot ne fred
killed Cap'n Story. Another killed one
of the members of the posse, but be
fore he could do any more damage
one of our shots dropped him. The
firing stopped suddenly an we knew
what had happened.
Everybody rushed into the brush,
and there, sure enough. was Dawse,
laid out so he couldn't rustic no NOR
steers in Utah. There was curious
thing, though. He had gun In each
hip pocket. an both of 'em was point
in muzle out. OF course, there was
grabbin for them guns, for every
body wanted them as souvenirs. Two
men got hold of 'em about the same
time and each gave yalik to pull
the guns out of the pockets. Both
them guns went off about The same
time and both those men was killed
"Well, sir, after that we were mora
cautious, can tell you, but We inves
tigated, an what do you suppose we
found? Why, that son of sea cook
knew that the posse would get him
sooner or later, an he just framed il
up to ring in a cold deck after he
was dead. He had tied buckskin
cord to the trigger of each. of those
guns and had fastened the other ends
to his pants, so that if anybody gave
the gun a yank it would set off the
trigger. I've seen a lot Of life in the
West when 1t was q sight tougher
than it ever will be again, but for pure
cussedness, that beats anything ever
saw or heard of--Chicago Inter
Ocean.