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

slender, stealthy figure tiptoeing out
of an clubhouse at the back OF the
| 'dobe toward the rear door of the 'dobe.
The tiptoeing man had q gun in his
right hand.
Poe, who told me the story. said
that hadn't an idea in life that this
tiptoeing figure was the kid He had
never seen the kid, but he had a fixed
impression on his mind that Billy was
much larger man, and so when no
saw this boyish figure Sinking across
the back yard toward the rear of the
'dobe he simply put 1t down In his
mind as some young fellow who was
guarding the shack against possible
marauders.
"The man who was with Poo near
the clump Of bushes let out a cough
that he couldn't hold In just as the
sinking figure reached the rear of the
'dobe. The slender chap with the gun
turned like flash and covered Poo
and the other man.
Who is it,? he asked them in
Spanish.
slender chap backed in the rear door,
still keeping them covered, however.
Poe says that he has never been able
to figure it out why the kid didn't kill
him and the other fellow where they
sat, right then. He had the bulge on
them, for they sat with their rifles
across their knees, right in the blaze
Of the southern moon, silhoutted
against the sand. If they had made
! the slightest move, Poe thinks. they
would undoubtedly both have been
still, and probably the kid might have
feared that they really were friends.
I'm the meantime, Garrett had en-
tered the 'dobe, and had found old
Pete Maxwell in his bunk In tho front
room. Garrett reused the old man,
and they were having a confab when
the kid entered the room from the rear
door. -;~
Garrett Almost Cornered.
Garrett, with his customary eau
ton, in entering the bed room, had
moved around to the side Of the bed
nearest the wall. As he sat ON the
! edge Of old man Maxwe1Ps bed he was
in a heavy shadow while the rest of
by the moon rays that streamed
through the open windows.
1.-THE Kid, still a-tiptoe, entered the
room. He was probably more or less
blinded by the strong Light of the
| moon, and he didn't see Sheriff Gar
| rett sitting in the deep shadow on
the far side of the old mans bed.
"'Pete,' asked the Kid, in sort Of
hoarse half-whisper, who are these
men outsider
Garrett had silently got his gun out
as he saw the Kid enter the door. He
wanted to take Billy alive IL he could,
but when he saw the gun In the Kids
right hand he knew that he couldn't
take any chances.
to make some sort Of reply to the
Kids question, when the desperado,
his eyes having become somewhat used
to the darkness, suddenly caught sight
Of the dim figure Of the sheriff on the
other side Of the bed.
His clutch on his gun was Just
Tightening and the gun was just at the
a bead upon the sheriff, when Pat
got the Kid. CARROTS first bullet
took him just little bit above the
heart. CARROTS next bullet took him
plumb through the head. The gun
dropped out Of the outlaws hand, and
he fell with q groan and died In a
short time. Then Garrett went to tho
rear Of the 'dobe and called Poe and
the other man In.
That's the way Billy and Kid met
his finish. according to. the narrative
of one Of the most reliable men in
the southwest, who was on the ground
when 1t happened. Pat Garrett him.
self never claimed that he had got on
the Kids trail at the beginning Of his
| ride out Of Lincoln and tracked him
down to the end like a bloodhound.
but that's the way the story got into
type at the time. The point isn't par
ticularly ~momentous SO long as the
career Of the Kid was stopped some-
how or another but inasmuch az there
are few or none Of Billy the KIDS
kind left now, it's worth while to got
the manner Of his wind-up right"