The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-06-04

went sx-shooter in hand, and sticking II
in the face of the caller, demanded his business.
The man protested that he meant no harm, but
had come from one Buck Holley who lived two
miles down the road, and said he knew Captain
Mcdonald and wanted to see him. The Ranger
captain reflected a minute.
81 don't know any Buck Holley," he said
81 knew scoundrel by the name Of Bill HOley
some years ago up in the Panhandle and II that
is who it is don't want to see him. I Judge
you fellows have got a gang down the road
there to shoot me from ambush. Who you.
anyway"
The said his name Monasco; that
he staying at Holleys and that he had
brother named Bill Monasco in Amarillo
Il know Bill Monasco," Mcdonald said land
he has brother that was sent to the peniten
tiary. Is that your"
The visitor acknowledged that he the
man--that he had been recently released.
We'll" said Mcdonald, that's about the
kind Of crowd would expect to find Bill Hol
ley running with, and you can tell this Buck
Hoey. as you call him, that l suspect him Of
being connected with this mob and that l used
to make him stand hitched In the Panhandle
and that I'm going to do the same here"
Monasco said Good night" and Captain Nc
Donald never saw him again. Somewhat later,
when he met Bill Holley, he said:
Look here, Bill, I'm afraid your partner
Monasco didn't tell you the message sent the
night came. l said didn't know Buck Holley
but that l knew sorry, bulldozing scoundre
by the name of Bill Hoey, and that I supposed
he was down the road there to take shot at me
from ambush. You weren't in this lynching
mob. l reckon. but they're your friends, and
you'd help EN- If you could. Now, Bill, you've
been counting funeral a good while, and If you
try any Of your nonsense here, you'll win out"
The Ranger captain was out early the morn
ing after his arrival in Alley, and on the trail
The tracks of the five horses were followed to
the houses of Joe Wilkerson and his son Brooks
and to the homes of John and Arthur Greenhaw
In Joe Wilkersons lot he found part of a we'll
rope, the remainder Of which had been cut away
1t matched precisely with the rope used to hang
the Humphreys-the freshly cut ends being the
same on both. The Wilkersons and one of the
Greenhaws were taken into custody forthwith
and other arrests followed as the criminals were
tracked home
The testimony brought out the facts that
the Humphreys had known of an Illicit still run
by two men-one Polk Weeks and a man named
Johns. Also that they had known of John
Greenhaw stealing cattle and hogs, and that
John Greenhaw had once drawn GU on the
elder Humphrey, who had promptly taken il
away from him, instead Of killing him with it
and rendering the community a service These
things, added to the other provocations already
named, had made the Humphreys sufficiently
unpopular in a neghborhood like the Trans
cedar bottoms to warrant their being hung to a
limb, russed up to swing clear of the ground
Guilty knowledge of the crime actually killed
a man named Eli Sparks, whose conscience tor
tured him day and night to the point of giving
testimony yet whose fears upon the witness
stand caused him to withhold the truth He
was large, red-faced man, evidently greatly ev
cited when questioned and Concealing more than
he told. Soon after his first examination no mot
Captain Mcdonald and offered to testify again
saying that he had been too frightened 70 toll
the truth the first time, but thought he could
90 better now The Ranger captain scrutinized
him keenly and made the prophecv tb,+ n,
Sparks would not live 30 DAYS. unless no 90,
rid of the load on his conscience tTe ala ~
just half that time; not however min no ~
fully confessed N0 H"u
me EFFORTS Of the men believed m bo ~
CeFhea as principals in the crime 10 estahIish
Ine" innocence were sometimes wary Soma
uueS Srudeiy absurd and always fruitless Tb.
lneSn ol l"cl mat was weaving and linking l,oaI,
49, mem became daily more tightly woven
SaI,o. ''uposSloIe 70 tear away Knowing them
eNes closely watched, they dared not attor,n.
hight To do so would be 10 confoss u''i,' mp.
capture would be well-nigh certain TiIa ,t a,,i
having comprised the death of a neigtt -
10y AZ SachC!oth and went SOFTLY" Ei,or :.
came TO pass that three of these "cbiins! l.
behai' turned states evidence thai - Il, OF
confessed fully. sacrificing their comrades 'neS
Gr, ,1g law, TO save themselves Eleven n,pn
'0,.s ,neSe three were brought to trial
ava Ia ps ,ne hnal trial John and Arthur Graanhou
bnt ro WA meeNs, Nho were not only murde-srs
uu' co"aray traitors, were given their free eerS
IN exchange for their evidence tbat e't freedom
e'sqI associates to the penitentary for ~, 'nef
Lo'A weeks, in giving bis evidence o NE
maen disturbed but confessed how "p ~
..'Loea the tree and tied the ronss ne nad
, leu 700 long making # necessary @ fo- ued
cJssr ~ ,Ie Humphreys to be bent upward me ,e
this but g1ir UoaG 'onn Greenhaw corroborateJ
amusing il had been He did ~. ellns how
hls freedom. for he was shot dead 20 enjoy
- ~ ~ LIBERATION BY Willie Humphrey SON .. aler
y me Younger Humphreys, and ~ n gu y ons
'2uoTed The righteous &C, = punishment