The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-15

enter the house during the night, and
the officers did not want their pres
ence known. Lucille had almost
reached her cabin when she heard a
cry down the mountain. She turned
and fairly flew back to where she could
signal the officers. The cry was the
outlaw signal and she knew that from
the house the reply would come that
all was safe. The officers quickly de-
ployed themselves and the girl re-
treated to the path by which she came
and went to her cabin. Bill KnaVe
came striding up the road to the house,
quick, alert and with all of the conf
dence born of mountain breeding and
years of successful fighting man for
man. AS he reached a point where
the officers could cross fire an officer
called him to halt, advancing in the
meantime with his Winchester drawn.
Knave did not halt. Like a flash his
Winchester was brought into play and
a ball cut the skin on Deputy Dob
sons temple. That was Knave's last
shot. He fell with two bullets close
to his heart. In the fight that fol-
lowed the only member of the Miller
gang left was Nose" Miller.
The story of Lucille Petit's part in
this fight was never told by the Off
GERS until the outlaw spirit died out,
for they knew that her life would have
to answer for it. Nose" Miller knew
that some one had betrayed him. but
was never able to find out who. He
went further up in the mountains. still
fighting officers and asking favors
from neither friend nor foe. He trust
ed even the mountaineers no more, and
lived alone with his Winchester and
his conscience. But the soul of man
cries out for companionship. This call
reached Mary Redbird. a fullblood In
dian girl, and they became sweethearts.
Miller would not trust even the In
dams now, and would not go to their
cabins. Mary Redbird met him in
the woods and went to his cabin some
times. She guarded him with Indian
craft that has no equal, and of her
tribesmen she made spies who were as
true as the old gang of outlaws had
been and as unerring as nature itself.
The officers knew that Mary Redbird
and Miller were sweethearts, and that
she had foiled all attempts made to
capture him. officers were sent into
the mountains one day, and she was
arrested and brought to Jail on a charge
of harboring outlaws. Behind the bars
she never weakened, and the officers
failed to convict her. AS soon as she
was released she went straight to the
mountain and to Miller. She found in
her absence that Miller had become at
tentive to another Indian girl. All
the hate of her Indian nature famed up
at this evidence of unfaithfulness
more bitter still that it came while she
was suffering a prison cell rather than
betray her white lover.
Bud" Ledbetter. who had sworn
that sooner or later he would capture
Miller. soon became aware of the
changed relations between the white
man and the Indian maid. Quietly and
alone he again went into the noun
tains, founG Mary Redbird, and there
in the wild mountains was re-enacted
the old Biblical story of Samson and
Delilah. She enticed Miller to go to
a dance at a cabin in a white settle
ment, and there got him drunk on
whisky furnished by Ledbetter. She
took him home and put him to sleep.
When Miller was soundly sleeping she
gave the signal from the cabin win
dow, and officers stole silently in and
bound their captive in his bed.