The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23

had not bought a ticket and insisted on
staying. Lake had him put out. Lake
was at the tent door watching his wife
take in the tickets of new customers, when
Killen sneaked up behind him and hot
him through the heart. Killen was tried,
but served only about three years for 1t.
When he got out he went after the man
who had shot HE eye out. The other fell
low saw Killen first and he troubled cir
Gus shows and the world In general no
longer.
Mrs. Lake then went on with the show
and made money. One day out In Abilene.
Kan, wild Bilp' Hickoek, the law and
order man for frontier towns, good fellow
generally, with a lot of notches on his gun,
caught sight of Mrs. Lake. 1t was love
at first sight. This was in the early 7Gs.
He said he was going to marry her. wild
BIZ was always sent for when the Union
Pacific Railroad was advancing across the
plains to deal with the bad men," Once
he killed nine soldiers himself In a saloon
row. He was cut up and shot and dragged
himself for miles across the country to
escape. Sixteen men had gone down before
that terrible gun of his. He was quiet,
unassuming. but brave as they made 'em.
Hickock kept on Mrs. Lakes trail. He
wrote to her and came to see her as often
as possible. "Wild Bill" had a protege
named "Bill" Cody. and had got him a
job with the United States scouts, which
was wild Bill's'' occupation for several
years. Cody afterward took Mrs. Lakes
daughter to Europe with his Wild West
show and she rode before Queen Victoria.
One of Mrs. Robinson's treasures today Is
some dried lower of the bouquet which
the Queen sent to her daughter. Cody
thought so much of Mrs. Robinson tina
he presented her with a silver-mounted
bride made from the scalps of Indians
that he killed.
Mrs. Lake gave up the circus business in
1878. She was rich. and invested her money
in a lithographing concern In Cincinnati.
The panic came on and she lost every dol
lar of her fortune. Then she got a place
with the Great Eastern Circus. She and
her daughter gave an exhibition Of fine
riding. They made two rings for them 10
exhibit in. and it was the first time that
a two-ring circus was ever seen In this
country.
wild Biz insisted on marrying Mrs.
Lake, and she went out in 1875 to Chey-
enne, where she married him. They were
happy together. and he drifted up to Dead
wood, which had just become known, as
n prospector. Mrs. Lake came east TO
Covington the following summer to be
present at nm interesting event in her
daughters family, and while there re-
ceived word that wild Bill' had been
killed by Jack Mccall. a desperate. Nc
Call was caught and hanged.
The next spring his widow went out
there and erected a monument to his men,
Dry. Then she and her daughter came
East and settled in Jersey City, largely
because Linda zea1's practising building
was there and Mrs. Robinson. her daugh-
ter, could practise riding in the winter and
keep her horses schooled. They rave lived
on the Heights ever since, making few
friends and attracting little attention. Mr..
Robinson prospered In the photographic
business. in which he is still engaged in
New York, and the old lady made her
home with him. She talked almost con-
stantly of the circus. III was breath to
her nostrils. Up to two years ago she at
tended the circus regularly every year, but
she used to lament about the distracting
three-ring shows,
They were not the old-time circuses.
The clowns were merely tumblers. men
who fell down. and not men Of wit, like
her first husband. 1t was quantity n
not quality. she used to say, that made