The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-17
CRIMINALS STRANGE CAREER.
Capt. Bulloek's Story of Ills Search
 for Little Reddy.

Capt. BuIloek's Story of Ills Search
 for Little Reddy.
 Capt. Seth Bullock, who was Sheriff of Deadwood in the days of the big mining stampede to the Black Hills. is now supervisor of the great forest re- serve in that same country. Before migrating to South Dakota, in 1876, he had been noted as an officer of the law in Helena, Mon., and it was the re- putation gained there that caused his appointment as Sheriff in the new mining camp. Capt. Bullock is tall and of wiry physique and has about him the alert air of a man who has spent much time in chasing evildoers.
 The first crime in DeadwOod,' said he, that shocked the whole commun- ity was the robbery of the Cheyenne stage coach and the murder of its driver. Johnnie Slaughter, popular young fellow, which was perpetrated within three miles of the camp. Though every effort was made to discover the criminals, not cIew turned up for several months after the deed was committed. Afterward we learned who all the principals were, but this story has only to do with one of them Little Reddy from Texas'-the thief and desperado who was the actual slayer of Slaughter. He had been in Texas, but his real home was in Ohio.
 By accident found out that 'Reddy' had hand in the job. but it was a long while before I got on the trail. Then I ascertained that he had ! gone back to his old home in Highland county, Ohio. Armed with a requisi- tion, I went East to try to get him, for we had never given up the hope of punishing the villains for their das- 1 tafdly work. I found him keeping q store in the same neighborhood in which he was born and reared; he had married a lovely girl, and had the re- spect of the entire community.
 Tt was uphill work for me trying to l get the sheriff and other officials to be- lieve that this young fellow had been a highwayman and murderer in the l West. But at length I secured his ar rest, and was ,congra tulating myself on the thought of taking him back, when his attorney, Judge Hough, now living in! Washington, got a hearing in the i local courts, there being, a law in Ohio that probable cause must be shown before a defendant could be taken out of the State to answer criminal charge. This was decided in my favor, and again. I was blocked by Judge Hough, who appealed to the Supreme Court, Disgasted, | returned to the West, and ere long got wire that Reddy had broken jail, an event I had all along anticipated.
 Months elapsed, and I had almost given up hope of capturing my man, when I heard of his return to the Ohio home and the curious deeds done by him after getting back there. It seems that he was afraid to reveal himself to his former friends, so what does he do but get about him a gang of thieves and proceed to the work of robbing his old time neighbors. In little while the entire country. was terroized at the operations Of a bold and desperate band Of freebooters who plundered even de- fenceless women that were suspected of having any valuables. Finally the whole county turned out to hunt down the bandits &a@ l They were traced to their hiding place, and in a fight Little Reddy was shot and disabled. Then it was that l was telegraphed for, and making haste to the scerce, once more I got hand cuffs on the murderer of Johnnie Slaughter. But again I was doomed to Idisapp ointment. With native cunning, land fearing his life would forefeited if he went back to Dakota, the villain pleaded guilty to enough burglaries and robberfes in Highland county to secure him an aggregate of seventeen years Imprisonment inthe Columbus penitentiary. All the rest of his old gang of stageeoach and railway rob- bers, including Joel Collins, Jim Berry land Sam Bass, were killed in course of time, as they richly deseryed,-From