The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-22
/ Mated FEMALE BANDIT AND SMUGGLER
, Woman of Irresistible Beauty Whose Dramatic
Career Has Parallel Outside the
Widest Dreams of Fiction.

II K conceded on the s~uUuorn Oo'
Tovas that the female bandit
! snugoIer, who was wounded and
0D 0+,,rod by the Mexican rurales after
s' 5esnerate battle few days since on
aha Rio Grande, is none other than
wv .od odventuress and all-around bad
Nv. who is we'll known in the In
WV, w. Tarritorv as Zalia, "The Devils
~" ,"an saws the Kansas City Journal.
oSo i now confined in military
Ds,.t.I in Monterey, and her physi-
,ans saw she has performed her last
3 l Ssrino exploit and fought her last
battle,
This strange character, who has ex-
;,,ood vicissitudes of fortune in
tor short career without a parallel
an+si5o of the widest dreams of fic-
t,or was born in an Indian village on
ho Western plains. Her father was a
..,.y+orious Frenchman who lived with
+bo Comanches for more than half
oortnry, He married the daughter OF
1ror Jacket and raised large family
of children. After the Comanches
cottled on their present reservation
This Frenchman, whom the Indians
called Heap Write" from the fact
that he spent a great deal of his time
IN writing, built a home of no small
nroportions and devoted all of his
really fine abilities to the education OF
his children.
Zalia was the beauty of the family,
and no one ever suspected her when
she was young girl of possessing
fine terrible traits of character that
she afterwards displayed. She spent
one wear at school, either at Jackson
vile, ILL.,, or a place of the same
name in some other state, and when
she returned to the territory it was
easy to see that she had mastered
many little arts that gave her consid-
cradle advantage over her sisters.
Sometimes she visited Fort Sill
when the Indians were drawing sup
plies, dressed as a Comanche maiden.
In this costume it was said that she
was irresistible She wore robe
literally covered with variouSly color
ed beads and sparkling gems, the
making of which had occupied the at
tention of two generations of the most
skilled artists of her tribe. Long
chains of beads of gold, intermingled
with strings of elk's teeth that had
been dipped in molten gold, were
wound about her neck and allowed to
hang in loops about her waist. Of
this period of her career she after
wards said that she had more than a
hundred offers of marriage.
When I was young girl l could
easily have married any one of a
! dozen rich men, she said, land at
least three men who proposed to me
nave o4uCe become famous.
Her career of crime began about
thiS time. She fell in love with a pri-
yate soldier, who was bugler and
musician. AS time passed it became
evident that the beautiful semi-civil-
Pzed child of the forest fairly worship
ca the handsome young soldier. She
would have passed through fire to
nave gratitied his slightest wish. The
Cugler'S comrades believed that he
vas sincere in his protestations of af-
ecuon for the Indian girl.
lew days before the soldier lover
vas 10 receive an honorable discharge
rom the army pretty young woman
arrived at Fort Sill, who made no at
Flp to conceal the fact that she was
oecome the bride of the bugler at
NJ early day. Eager rivals were not
aVNlng to carry the news quickly to
and She lost little time on con-
'ulnatlng a horrible revenge. The
D'uSpectlng and unfaithful lover was
'eo TO a former trysting place in
1--WE OF trees not far from the In
i'n girls house. There the half
r '11Ieo girl met him with a stilleto in
" BOSOM, and, after rebuking him
abusing him with the singing
,I'ue OF an educated savage, threw
arms about his neck and drove
NeeA little blade into his heart.
''luS the blood and foam from his
''s HpS as she gently let the limp