Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-29
BILLY GOAT MEAT
PASSES FOR
VENISON
Mean Joke Played by Phoenix
Hunters On Some of Their
Trusting and Confiding
Friends at Home.
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Mack Bats. Cecil Creech and Carl |
Brady are about to go before Justice |
tombstone and demand that several of
their Phoenix friends be put under
hand.s - lzee:. 800
Bats, Creech and Brady are afraid
the victims of a rich joke they per
petrated Saturday and yesterday will
do them personal violence. To pro-
tect himself each is going heavily
armed today
To begin at the beginning, Bats,
Creech and Brady left Phoenix last
Friday 10 hunt deer about thirty miles
west OF Phoenix, promising no less
than 100 that they would bring them
back some yenison.
Saturday morning lew Jones re
ceiyed word from Bats and his con-
federates that they had killed fine
large deer, and to send out at once
a wagon to bring in the meat to be
distributed as they would stay out
longer and Stay q few more.
Incidentally, Jones was asked TO
send out a case of beer and few
loaves of bread, as they were running
short of provisions and would need
more punishment while they tramped
through the woods after the deer.
Anxious to return the kindness OF
the hunter in sending in their first
deer SO soon. after they left Phoenix
Jones packed a case of beer in ice
and rushed man with wagon to
their camp. The wagon is said to
have been large enough TO haul fifty
| deer
Just before the arrival OF the man
| heading the RELIEF expedition, Bats,
| Brady and Creech dressed the deer
and had II ready for him. Saturday
evening he left camp for Phoenix,
To keep his promise to those to
/ whom he had promised venison Bats
returned to Phoenix yesterday and the
greater part of the day superintendent
| the distribution.
Several took big chunks home, some
Of them having the meat cooked for
a late Sunday dinner and others walt
| ing until today to enjoy the gener-
| osity of Bats and his associates.
One incident which attended the
| distribution of the meat which would
have excited suspicion, but which
| seems to have been passed over with
out SO much as a single comment, was
| the refusal of either Bats, Brady or
Creec6 to take any of the meat.
After it had all been given away,
but one small piece, which was hand
ed to Harry West, the first suspicion
| that all was not well became fastened
| in the mind of West, when a friend
found goat hairs on the hunk OF Fenl-
/ son he had received
/ Bats was confronted with his du-
pIicity and, breaking down, coM
| that ne had not been giving away
| deer meat at all, but had distributed
/ among his unsuspecting friends poE'
tons Of goat.
Bats. Creeeh and Brady bought the
| goat for SO from a sneepherder, VINO
/ had his band near their camp. Just
before the man who was to bring them
the beer arrived they cut the goat )
4 throat ana after skinning him nred
two rifle shots through mis- BODY 70
keep up appearances.
Late this afternoon, it was stated
that dissensions have broken out IN
fbe ranks OF the hunting party, and
all because of a joke perpeuated py
Bats on his two companions.
Saturday evening he told them OF
fhe ease with which wildcats could
he killed in the night with the aid OF
4 lantern. claiming that the light
would bring them close enough 10 De
shot easily with a shotgun.
l-.a--z---eaa Cob hit and with thf
Won y. at At whose Mace they had made
their camp, went hunting for wild
cats with lanterns. They started GU
the greater part of Saturday night
getting lost in the woods. But To-
the presence of the man at Whose
place they were staying they mlsh
have been out yet. After seVeFa
hours ne succeeded in guiding then
out of the woods