The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-27

followed a few days later as Bennett had told it to him few weeks before he died:
 After the picnic holdup a cowboy rode into Pawhuska one evening and informed Bennett that the men who had robbed the picknickers were camp ed in an opening about five miles from ' the town. Bennett ordered his horse immediately. and, with Wiley Haines, started after the outlaws. Hitching i their horses about mile from where ' the camp was supposed to be, they crept cautiously up to the glade.
 1 Sitting around their saddles the Mar tin brothers were shaving, one holding mirror for the other. Fifty yards beyond Simmons was patrolling back and forth with Winchester over his shoulder. Bennett easily recognized the horses that had been stolen, as a man in cattle country learns to do with ease. They were at a distanca of four hundred yards and were just plan ming method of attack when Sam Martin jumped to his feet and shouted to Simmons:
 That looks like a man over there"
 Almost at the same instant Simmons rifle cracked and a bullet whistled through the trees close by. The battle was on and a. fusillade of shots was kept up for half an hour. The Martins crouched behind their saddles and Simmons fortified hims:lf behind a Iclump of bushes. The officers were fairly well protected.
 Bill Martin was the first to be struck. A bullet penetrated his body and he lay over on his face out of the battle. Almost simultaneously a bullet from Simmons rife struck Haines in the shoulder. The softnosed bullet made a frightfuI wound. The firing ceased for moment and then the two outlaws started for cover toward the other side of the opening. Bennett stepped bold ly out into the opening and his killing of Sam Martin is described as follows
 Martin was running directly from me, and aimed at where his suspend CTS crossed in the back. Just as aimed he turned his head over his shoulder and the bullet struck him in the mouth. He rolled over and over like a jaekrabbit shot on the run"
 Sam Martins neck was brelcsn either by the fall or the force of the bullet Bennett then hurried back to Haines whom he believed to be dying. Witt a pocketknife he cut from the shoulde the copper jacket of the bullet, bound up his wound and took him on horse. back to surgical aid. The bodies of tht last desperate outlaws were buried ir the pottsr's field ~ at Guthrie on the [ night following. ..-. .r
 In their camp were found 1000 round lof ammunition, four Winchester rifles of the best pattern and horses ant
 saddles they bad stolen a few day before. Marshal Cross's star was pinn. } ed on the inside of one of their coats.
 The death of Bennett and mention ot
 the Martin boys recalls the chase o more than twenty miles United State! Marshal W. D. Fossett and his deputy
 Jim Baxter, gave the Martin boys dur ing the same summer. The two of . ficers happened to be at Mulhall, wher a telephone report came that two mer t had stolen horse and buggy at Psrr, - and were driving westward. They drove , past Mulhall, and the officers with diff
 f1culty confiscated a team and bugg, ) and followed. The outlaws were in tht lead, but the officers were soon within rifle shot and kept up running, in
 termittent fire during the whole dis tance to Sheridan. Farmers joined il