The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-29

very cold Capt Bill had not entirely recovered from the bullet wounds received in the fight with Matthews two months before and was bent and debitated but he did not falter. With Queen and Harwell he plunged in and waded the icy water, chin deep, to the other side. Twice more the trail led to the river and crossed and twice more Mcdonald and his men waded that bitter current s.... . Mcdonald now made up his mind that the rob- bers would be likely to cross road that had been cut through the bottoms, and head for the Territory He called to one of his men-Ran ger Mcclure, who appeared just then, little distance away-to get ali the force he could and guard that road, while he, Mcdonald and Queen and HarWell, would continue to beat the brush and search carefully through the bottoms. At that moment Lewis and Crawford were near enough to hear this order, and the realization that it was Bill Mcdonald and his Rangers who the trail gave them sudden and more severe chill than the icy water they had waded
 They had been heading for the Territory as Mcdonald suspected, but decided to change their toward a creek that ran parallel with the river. On their way to it they obliged to cross open field and though by this time 1t night-between nine and ten o'clock a full moon had risen and they were discovered by the men guarding the road, and fired upon They returned the fire as they ran, but no dam age done either side. Meantime, McDon aid and his two companions, nearly perishing with wet and cold. having upon a house in their search, had stopped to try for cup of hot coffee. At the sound of the shots they rushed out. A horse was hitched at the door and Capt Bill leaped into the saddle and hurried in the di rectlon of the alarm. As he rode up, he saw in the moonlight a crowd, the local posse, gath cred on the little hill overlooking the wheatfed where the robbers had crossed. The Ranger captain fully expected to find the captured or dead bandits in that crowd. and called out as he came up:
 Boys, where are they? Where are the rob- bers?"
 Right there, Cap. They ran in the brush by wonder big tree"
 Well, boys, we've got them We'll charge in there"
 They pushed rapidly into the bushes without further parley-McDonald aiming for the tree McCauley and Mcclure spreading out to the right.
 Suddenly the captain found himself confront ed by creek, and looking across saw two armed men squatting in the weeds. They appeared to be on the point of raising their guns to fire but with McDonald's appearance and his sharp command: Hold up, there" made from behind his own leveled Winchester, they were unable to complete the action. Their guns dropped into their laps-they seemed stupefed.
 ''Throw up your hands" was the next order
 The hands went up.
 Capt Bill stepped into the creek, about three feet deep, and, waded across He noticed bag doubtless containing the stolen money and ob- served that the outlaws had laid their car tridges out log for convenient use
 McCauley and Mcclure waded across and as. sisted in searching the prisoners A purse of gold was found in of the mems pockets Ths bag on the ground contained the silver
 reward of $2000 for the capture of Lewis and Crawford was paid by the two banks of Wichita Falls. The local posse divided it into 32 equal parts, in which they shared pro rata with the Rangers