Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-16

travellers about thirty miles away
Having painted themselves like In
dians, they stopped these men in a
brake. took away their arms and then
helped themselves to their valuables
One of the sufferers said that he
deserved better luck because he had
got the money by an hours hard
fighting on a privateer, but that this
place was too quiet and mournful to
put up fight in. Hare gave him
back some Of his gold pieces
II never felt more strong and hearty
in my life," Hare says in speaking of
this period. 1T felt as If could over
come any savage that walked the
wilderness. Indeed. I was strong nat
urally, for l had whipped the bully Of
New Orleans, one William Marshall,
that was much feared there, in a
pitched battle
A negro trader from Natchez. whom
Hare attempted to hold up. shot at
him, and on account Of the smoke
thus caused Hare missed and the
man got away. but on the way back
to camp he met another man from
st. Louis When they came to a
spring this gentleman incautiously
leaned his rifle against a tree and
stopped to get a drink. He asked
Hare to have some brandy and water,
whereupon that ever-ready wit re-
piled that he would have some water
after he counted up the st. Louis
mans money; that he never drank
brandy or spirits. as he had enough
spirits of his own, and that if he
| (the St Louis gentleman) did not i'm
medately hand over whatever money
he possessed he would get something
better than brandy. He was very
much alarmed and trembled worse
than 1 do now under the gallows." "
Hare took $2,7OO i'm gold from him.
BY this time his men had enough
of wilderness life. They wanted to
get back to the settlements and spend
their money. SO they went first to
Nashville, where Hare bought a ne
gro boy and a two-horse gig. Then
they went on through Knoxville and
Lexington to Louisville. Here Hare
swapped his gig and horses for "a
black boy and a gold repeater" and
they went down the river to New
Orleans, where they stopped with an
Irishman who ran gambling joint.
They shook dice, played cards, bill
| United Stabell," which was played
with thirty-two figures Of different
colors. In this way the robbers man.
aged to get rid Of most Of their
money.
They were forced to pay $1,000 to
a French gentleman who suspected
one of them Of robbing his trunk. the
man in question having been seen In
the Frenchmans room. One of these
men hinted at a cheaper and quicker
way Of settling the matter. But the
stern moralst rebuked him severely.
'I told him murder will out; that
God never forgave n murderer: that
nobody ever led a quiet life that had
anything to do with a murder. l
told him stories from John Wesley
Magazine about the punishment of
murderer. but he said they were old
women's stories"
They decided to take to the road a
second time. At Baton Rouge they
got three horses and located them
selves in a cave eight miles from
Pensacola. They had to enter and
leave it by ladder made from grape
vine. Deer, turkey and wild game
labounded in the neighborhood, also
lalligators.
After a time his men went into
Pensacola for ammunition and lin
gered to dance the fandango with
fiddle and tambourine," but they
brought back the comforting intelll-
gence that rich Spaniard might be
expected along in ten days. When
this man and his party did come along
the robbers painted themselves up
according to their custom, and, after
riding past the company of Spaniards
along the road. suddenly wheeled and
rode back upon them, taking them
com pletely by surprise. Hare's share
of the robbery amounted to $3,12S.
They found a wolf in their cave
when they returned, but couple OF
we'll directed bullets soon finished
| him. Several other parties passed
along the road during the next lew
days, but they were too numerous for
them to attack. Finally they saw a
man and his servant ride along, ana
from the fact that they were both
heavily armed Hare deduced that they
would be worth holding up. They
overlook them about thirty miles
from the camp, and Hare, having put
on a uniform which he had bought in
New Orleans, told this man, who like
wise was a Spaniard, that war had
been declared between Spain and the
United States. Fifty-three hundred
dollars came to Hare himself from this
operation.
At the end of two months, having
obtained some $26.70O, they again
returned to civilization.
They stayed some time at Pensa-
cola. and got rid of a greater part OF
their money; then went to New Or
leans and spent what was left.
Again, on the road outside of Nash
Vile. Hare by himself, robbed a man
of s97O, but an even smaller robbery
shortly afterward in Franklin coun-
ty, Virginia. was his undoing.
About 3 o'clock the night robbed
the drover, as | was riding along very
rapidly to get out of reach of pur-
suit. l saw standing across the road
beautiful white horse, as white as
snow: his ears stood straight forward
and his figure was very beautiful.
never saw so white a horse as he was.
When | approached and got near MIN
he disappeared i'm an instant which
made me very uneasy and made me
stop and stay at house nearly all that
night. | think this white horse was
l,,l ,;.t ,,l JJn rDrnn A warn me OF