The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-03-25

Kid told tho deputy sheriff guarding
him that he wished to go to the yard,
and the deputy sherin unlocked the
wristlets and leg irons SO that the
hobbies only hung to his one wrist
and one leg.
Bnly's Break From Jail.
when the kid got to the Jail yard
with the deputy sheriff he made his
jump with the quichness of cat.
Across tho jail yard was a small two
story building, the second floor Of
which, as the kid knew, contained
arms and ammunition belonging to the
county to be dished out to the posses
which the sheriff frequently had to
organize from among the citizens. A
flight Of outside steps led to the locked
door Of this second-story room.
The kid was at the top Of those
steps in three jumps. and he put his
the door in almost before the deputy
sheriff knew what was coming of.
THE kid got his hands on 4 pair Of
loaded guns and was back at the door
in time to find the deputy sheriff hop
ping up the steps. gun out. The kid
got the deputy sheriff through the
heart with the first shot. Then he
stood at the top Of the steps, waiting.
1.-The deputy sheriff who was across
other prisoners heard the shot, and he
came running over. He had just poked
his head out Of the back door of the
Jail, on his way to the yard to investi-
gate the cause Of the shot, when the
kid, from his position at the top of
the steps Of the small second-story
building, got him through the brain.
Then the jail was in the possession
of Billy the Kid. it's only guardians
,,~ivo M oh~ - on3A d.
rett having been the two deputies
whom he had put away.
Going to the front door Of the Jail,
the kid put the first man he saw on
the street under the gun and COM
manded him to enter the jail and file
the irons from his wrist and leg. The
man obeyed, and in few minutes the
kid was unshackled.
Garrett Takes the Trail.
1.-THE town In the meantime had
found out what was going on at the
jail, but the citizens were terrorized.
Not move was made to swoop on the
evil young fellow who held the Jail.
He remained in possession of the Jail
for more than an hour before he got
what he was waiting fora horse.
Then a man who had just ridden into
town on a fine horse passed by the
Jail. The kid, standing in the door
of the jail, put the man under the
gun, directing the horses owner to
mosey down the street and out of
sight When Billy mounted the horse
the first time the spirited brute. re-
belling against his new rider. bucked
and threw him. The kid, having been
a. cattle puncher most of his days,
was as we'll horseman. and they say
down there that that was the first
time he had ever been bucked off
horse. But he got on again, and al
though the horse tried to toss him
once more, the kid knew how to get
him down to business and he galloped
out of Lincoln. heeled with two good
guns and a couple Of belts stuffed
with ammunition.
Sheriff Pat Garrett didn't get back
to Lincoln until the next day. He
didn't say much, not being loqua-
cious man, but he oiled up his guns
and looked as If he had lot on his
mind. AS soon as he found out what
had happened at the Jail during his
absence he sent a sudden rider to Ros-
we'll, sixty miles away, for John w.
Poe, the man who Is now the bank
president at Roswell. Poe had done
some successful badman hunting with
Poe along with him on the hunt he
was about to. undertake for Billy the
Kid. Poe arrived at Lincoln the next
morning. Sheriff Pat Garrett, Poe and
another nervy friend Of the sheriff's
whose name I have forgotten, started
out after the kid that night.
Toward Old Fort Stanton.
1T was random quest from the be-
ginning The three men hadn't the
slightest notion as to which direction
Billy the Kid had taken. They had
af 0f direction
he had taken in riding out of town,
but that meant nothing, for the kid
had made several crafty and scientific
detours in evading Justice in his day.
by sheer luck. however, the three
men took the path which led toward
Fort Stanton. They made good many
inquiries along the route at ranch
had lot of friends among the cattle
punchers and COW men. He had min>
gled up with the Lincoln county cattle
war, taking the John Chisholm end,
and. in making his getaway from Lin
coin, he knew where to find these
friends.
ION the second or third day out from
Lincoln, however, they came upon an
old justice of the. peace, in an out-of-
their questions were suspicious. He
was too strong in his protestations that
he hadn't seen hide or hair Of the kid.
The sheriff didn't pin the old justice
to the stick at all, but he formed his
own conclusions from the old mans
ratified and nervous talk, and one OF
those conclusions was that the kid had
passed that way very recently. That
way led toward Fort Stanton, then
abandoned. and toward Fort Stanton
the three men continued to push.
1T was past nine or ten at night and
bright moonlight when they got to the
for the old 'dobe, which had been used
for officers quarters when the post
was occupied, then tenanted by an old
fellow named Pete Maxwell. After the
kids death fairy tale went around
that Billy had been in love with a
daughter of Maxwell, and that's how
he happened to make for Fort Stanton
after making his break from Lincoln:
But that was moonshine. Maxwell
was living alone in the 'dobe. Sheriff
Pat Garrett had not the slightest sus-
picion, when he rode up to Maxwell's
'dobe with his two companions, that
the old man was harboring the Kid:
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