The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
LITTLE READY.
HIS OLD NEIGHBoRS WOULDN'T
BELIEVE
He Was a Highwayman, But His Con-
WINGED Them.

He Was Highwayman, But His Con-
WINGED Them.
Capt Seth Bullock, who was sheriff of
Deadwood in the days of the big min
ing stampede to the Black Hills, is now
supervisor of the great forest reserve
in that same country. Before migrat-
ing to South Dakota. in 1876, he had
been noted as an officer of the law in
Helena, Mont, and it was the reputa-
ton gained there that caused his APP
pointment as sheriff in the new mining
camp. Capt. Bullock is tall and of
wiry physique and has about him the
alert air of 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, a popular
young fellow, which was perpetrated
within three miles of the camp.
Though every effort was made to dis
cover the criminals, not clew 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 of Texas'-the chief
desperate 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 a hand in the job, but it was a
long while before got on the trail.
Then I ascertained that he had gone
back to his old he me in Highland
county, Ohio. Armed with a requisi-
tion, went East to try to get him. for
we had never given up the hope of
Furnishing the Williams for their das-
tardly work. I found him keeping a
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.
" 1t was uphill work for me trying
to get the sheriff and other officials to
believe that this young fellow had been
a highwayman and murdered in the
West. But at length secured his ar
rest and was congratulating myself on
the thought of taking him back, when
his attorney, Judge Hough, now living
in Washington, got hearing in the To-
cal courts. there being a law in Ohio
that probable cause must be shown be-
fore defendant could be taken out of
the State to answer a criminal charge.
This was decided in my favor, and
again / was blocked by Judge Hough,
who appealed sto the Supreme Court.
Disguised, returned to the West, and
ere long got wire that Reddy had
broken Jail, an event I had all along an
ticipated. 49,.
Months elapsed, and I had almost
given up hope of capturing my man,
when heard of his return to the Ohio
home and curious deeds done by him
after getting back there 1t 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 terrorized at the
operations of bold and desperate
band of freebooters who pIundered
even defenseless women that were sus-
pected OF having any valuables. Fin
ally the whole county turned out to
hunt down the bandits.
They were traced to their hiding
place, and in fight Little Reddy was
shot and disabled. Then it was I was
telegraphed for, and, making haste to
the scene, once more I got handouts
on the murderer of Johnny Slaughter.
But again I was doomed to disappoint-
ment. With native cunning, and fear
ing his life would be forfeited if he went
back to Dakota, the william pleaded
guilty to enough burglaries and rob-
berries in Highland County to secure
him an aggregate Of II years impris-
onment in the Columbus penitentiary.
All the rest of his old gang of stage
coach and railway robbers, including
Joel Collins, Jim Berry and Sam Bass
were killed in course Of time, as they
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