Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

OF the back door OF the Jail. on his way to
the yard TO investigate the cause of the
shot, when the kid. from his position at
the top of the steps of the small seconf-
story building. got him through the BRAIN
Then the jail was in the possession of
Billy the Kid. it's only guardians during
the absence of Sheriff Pat Garrett 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 commanded him to en-
ter the Jail and file the irons from his
wrist and leg. The man obeyed and IL
few minutes the kid was unshackled.
Garrett Takes the Trail.
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 the evil young fellow
who held the jail. He remained in posses
sion of the Jail for more than an hour be-
fore he got what he was waiting fora
horse Then 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 ana TOOK
the horse away from him, 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. buckeo ana
threw him The kid. having been cattle
puncher most of his days, was SVEN
horseman, and they say down there that
that was the first time he had ever oeeh
bucked off horse. But ne got on AGAIN.
and, although tire horse tried to toss him
once more, the kid knew how to get the
animal down to business. ana ne saiopeu
out of Lincoln. heeled. with two good guns
and couple of belts stuffed with ammuii'-
ton.
Sheriff Pat Garrett didn't get back to
Lincoln until the next day. He dian say
much, not being loquacious man. Dut ne
oiled up his guns and looked as II he nad
lot on his mind. AS soon as he found out
what had happened at the jail during ms
absence he sent sudden rider to Roswell.
sixty miles away. for John w roe. the
man who is now the bank president at KOS
well Poe had done some successful bad
man hunting with Garrett before, ana Car
rett wanted 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 sherin's. whose
name 1 have forgotten, started out after
the kid that night.
Toward Old Fort Stanton.
.Tt was a random quest from the begin
ming The three men hadn't the slightest
notion as to which direction Billy the Kid
had taken. They had been told. of course.
of the 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 STAN
ton They made a good many inquiries
along the route at ranch houses. but learned
nothing. The Kid had lot of friends
among the cattle punchers and cow men.
He had mingled up with the Lincoln county
ca tile war. taking the John Chisholm end,
and. in making his getaway from Lincoln.
he knew where to find these friends.
''On the second or third day out from
Lincoln however. they came upon an Old
justice of the peace, in an out-of-the-way
settlement, whose replies to their questions
were suspicious. He was too strong in his
protestations that he hadn't seen hide nor
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 con-
tinued to push.
1T was nine or ten at night, and bright
moonlight when they got to the outskirts
of Fort Stanton. They made for the old
'dobe, which had been used for officers
quarters when the post was occupied, then
tenanted by an old fellow named Pete Max
we'll After the Kids death a 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 suspicion. when he rode
up to Maxweus 'dobe with his two COM
panions that the old man was harboring
the Kid. He merely wanted to question the
old man and get shelter for himself and
companions and fodder for the horses be-
fore taking up the hunt on the following
morning.
Rounding Up the Kid.
They pulled up at clump of bushes
some distance away from the 'dobe and dis
mounted. Garrett walked into the 'dobe.
while Poe and the other man, whose name
l have forgotten, tethered the horses and
sat down on the ground with their rifles
across their knees awaiting the word from
Garrett to follow him to the 'dobe.
Garrett had hardly entered the 'dobe
whey Poe and the other man saw a 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
gun in his right hand.
Poe who told me the story, said that he
hadn't an idea in life that this tiptoeing
figure was the kid He had never seen the
kid but he had fixed impression in his
mind that Billy was much larger man.
and so when he saw this boySh figure
Sinking across the back yard toward the
rear of the 'dobe he simply put it down In
lbs mind some young fellow who was
guarding the shack against possible ma
RAIDERS.
THE man who was with Poe 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 q flash and
covered Poe and the other man.
Who is it? he asked them in Spanish.
Poe called out Friends and the slender
chap backed in the rear door, still keeping