The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-17
DEAD HIGHWAYMAN
 FULLY IDENTIFIED Cousin Says His Name is
 Dan McBee CARRIED TO HORSE CREEK MoBee Spent Friday Night With Uncle
CARRIED TO HORSE CREEK
McBee Spent Friday Night With Uncle and Borrowed Pistol Before Leav- ing-Wagon Is Identified as
 Property of Tom Mc5ee.

urday afternoon between Flat Top and Littleton of s5Oo0, and who was later kill ed, was yesterday positively identified as Dan Melee by his cousin, Tom McBee, who lives near Flat Top.
 The body was viewed by hundreds of people yesterday as it lay in the under taking establishment of the Gaudin com pany. At 4:30 o'clock the remains were sent to Horse Creek, where the interment will be held today.
 Many people knew the deceased and identified him as well as did Tom McBee. He was well known in Birmingham and in several of the mining towns in the Birmingham district At one time he ran drug store at Horse Creek
 The officers have not yet secured any evidence which would lead to the belief that they will capture McBee's partner today They are working on the case, but evidence is rather scarce.
 Tom Melee yesterday made a state ment to the coroner on oath regarding his cousin, the main facts of which are as follows:
 "Dan had been in Texas for the past three years and came back to Birming- ham about a month ago. He had some trouble in Horse Creek before he left there. That was about the time that he was running a drug store in partnership with man named King out there.
 Borrowed a Pistol.
 "The first time I saw Dan since he re- turned from Texas was last Wednesday afternoon. when he went to my fathers house near Flat Top and spent the night. He left there Thursday about noon and l did not see him ursil early Saturday morning, when he came to me and asked me to lend him a pistol, saying that he was going over to Littleton to gamble some with the miners, who were to be paid off. I loaned him pistol, the same one that he had when he was killed. and he left the house immediately. That was the last time that ever saw him alive.
 T am able to Identify the pistol for 1t had my name cut on the inside of the rubber on the handle'
 The handles were taken off the pistol by Coroner Paris and the name of Tom Melee was found on the inside of one of them, proving beyond a doubt that 1t was Tom MeBees pistol.
 The coroner obtained information yes- terday which leads him to believe, he says. that Dan McBee has been in Texas engaged in robbing trains, or some simi- lar pursuit. It is said that around Lit tleton and other mining towns in that negborhood that he had told people that he had robbed trains in Texas.
 Coroner Paris Talks. "The information I have at hand Is than Dan McBee had made the remark several times around Horse Creek Car ! dova and other towns that the easiest way he knew to make money was to hold up the paymaster between some of the towns" said Coroner Paris yesterday.
 'McBee's relatives and friends state that he had been a gambler for long time. When he borrowed that pistol from his cousin yesterday morning he stated that he might get into trouble in a game and he wanted to be armed so that 1 he could protect himself.
 "T understand that he was what was known as a crap shooter or a roller in Birmingham, and a number of the gamb- lers in the city have stated that they had seen him here several years ago
 We are of course working to capture 1 the other highwayman, or other highway men. for there may have been two more of them, but we have nothing yet which would lead to the belief that we will catch the men.
 Detective Bodeker had close call yesterday from the facts I have gather ed second later and he would have been shot. and probably killed by that man. Nix and Pickard fired instantly and killed McBee before he could pull the trigger of his weapon. I do not believe from what I learn that McBee ever saw Nix and Pickard when he tried to get the drop on Bodeker.
 Was at LittIeton. | "I happened to be at Litteton when the killing took place, and Bodeker and Nix came after me on an engine, leaving 1 the guards to watch the body. I tele- l graphed the superintendents office in 1 Birmingham and asked that the train to Birmingham be held until we could get the body to Littleton. but there was no need to hold it. We got an engine and l the body and returned with 1t in four l teen minutes.
 l "There are thirteen bullet holes in Me Bees body. Eleven of the buckshot went l through McBee's body from front to back and the other two glanced off and did I not go through. Nix and Pickard must have been about twenty paces from the man when they fired. Bodeker was only | about eight feet from Melee when he | ripped and fell, and the highwayman would have had dead aim at him had the other men not shot when they did" | Detective Bodeker thinks that McBee was about the coolest criminal he ever saw, and he has handled many of the most desperate that have ever operated l in and around Birmingham. He said yes. | terday:
 q had no idea he would resist after | throwing up his hands. He was as coo as ever saw a criminal, and he was ons of the first I ever saw that absolutely made the officers kill him. He was 1T no finger of being killed if he had only behaved himself and not attempted te get out his pistol.
 All Acted Quickly.
 That thing was the quickest I ever saw. It all happened in much less time than 1t takes to tell It was not over a minute between the time that we heard the highwaymen order MT. Burr to stor and the time that McBee was killed