The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-06
A Five-Foot Cockney Policeman at
Dawson Did It.

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Dawson Did It.
Since Wyatt carp, once famous as a
Euu fighter in Arizona and California.
went up into the Klondike very little
has been heard Of him by the outside
world The last exploit that brought
him into prominence was his decision
in h NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. prize light
in San Francisco, when he gave the
tight 20 Sharkey on an alleged foul. For
some years before that ne had been
quite an orderly citizen for one of his
reputation as a gun fighter.
From the stories that have drifted
down from the KlOndike in the last
few weeks, II appears that carp has
resumed a favOrite trick OF his, known
in the west as shooting up the town
He was much addicted TO IL in the old
lawless days of Arizona and California.
carp was never a man who could
easily be tanned, consequently a story
told of his suppression a few weeks
ago by a diminutive cockney member
OF the Canada mounted police viii be
interesting to some of his friends here.
carp drifted into Dawson several
months ago fun Of a determination to
get action said a san Francisco man
10 some of Earp's old western friends
the other night. Civilization, policemen
and progress generally knocked out
In . sun ABnLllAh 6dllt III the STATES
some years ago. and. like Bat Master
son and a few other relics Of the old
days, he q been quite orderly and
well behaved for some years.
But when he got to Dawson he
found a settlement like the places in
which he made his reputation Is o bad
man many years ago. He found men
carrying CUR around in their belts and
getting drunk and shooting people who
happened to displease them. and it
gave him b fever to get back into the
y game in which he was an adept i'm the
days gone by.
S 10 carp discarded his store clothes.
got himself a flannel shirt. ~ pair of
leather trousers and a sOmberero. stuck
a gun in his belt, loaded up on bad
whisky and went around the saloons
bullyragging everybody who would
stand for his game, and ak
ing a few shots at some men
who resented IL. There were a number
of bad men in Dawson VINO were sur
nCiently aWed by EaTp's reputation 20
stand for him, and his own way. Well.
the fact that carp was hitting it up
got TO the ears of a little ive-fOOt cock
uey member Of the Canada mounted po-
lice. one Of whose duties it was 10 see
that Dawson behaved itself. Now.
carp didn't know much about the
Canada mounted police and the man
ner or men who compose it,
Therefore. when ne was interrupted
in the gentle amusement of cleaning
out a faro bank in Dawson one night
by this little chap coming up to him
with a request that ne give him his
gun, he opened his mouth and his
eyes very wide, swOre a mighty round
OF oaths and asked the little fellow i'm
riding boots and cap IL ne wanted TO
visit hades at once or wait a few hours
carp was somewhat surprised when
the little fellow simply smiled politely
and said:
You must give me the gun or burv
st. sir and extended his hand for the
weapon
carp swore some more. but not
quite so e~lOquently. for all the while
the little man vas smiling calmly In his
face. Finally carp. clean clustered By
the situation. pulled his gun from his
belt and fired it three times into the
ceiling. ~whereupOn the little man. still
smiling. said:
Now, you'll have to bury It or I'll
have-tO TAX IL away from you. sir
Take my gun away from mel"
roared carp.
Exactly. said the little man. May
be YOU doubt III do it, sir?'
The witnesses Of this %colIoquy didn't
kno what 10 expect from carp. but
they knew what would happen pretty
soon If carp became defiant. because in
Dawson people know what 20 expect
from the Canadian mounted police.
They knew. too, that this little cockney
had squelched every bad man who had
Sver come into Dawson. and they didn't