Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-18

All the worlds stage. and all the
 the men and women only players: They have their exits and their entrances"
 And ne one believes this more to day than Walter Richard Morrison. at present an inmate of the county jail. says the Chicago Inter Ocean. As Deadwood Dick his entrace on the stage of the world was to play leading part in one Of the most exciting dramas the West has ever known. As Walter Richard Morrison his exit in the world is to play the lowest part on the stage Of the life as it is found in every large city in the country. Today he is a warrant is the West side jail
 From the honored place of scout to Gen. Custer up to almost the very time when the fighting commander of the Seventh cavalry fell with his men on the bloody battlefield of the Little Big Horn, Morrison has fallen Co become a figure we'll known to the police and jail officials of Denver. Helped Make the West.
 His life history is one full of TO- nance and pathos. In his younger days he was one of the men who aided in the making of the great West. Today he is an old man, past three score and ten, for whom life seemingly holds but little But even in his present condition he is not disheartened. Although. to use an every day expression, he is down and out" he still finds something Co live for. but his greatest joy and pleasure is in telling of the days hen he was scout with Custer. Deadwood Dick has been a familiar sight in Denver for fifteen years. He was at one time wealthy. and until seven years ago he was ir comfortable circumstances. But since , that time he has been eking out an | existence by manufacturing and sell ! ing an insect powder. The old man | is a pitiful sight as he sits in the | jail. He has long, black hair that almost reaches to his waist and ! this he says is the pride of his life. T stood it all right when l lost my money hh said, but it would kill me if I should lose my hair II is the only comfort I have"
 One Of Clusters Scouts. 7 DeadwoOd Dick tells a remarkable ' story of his experience with Gen. Custer. was with him during all ! the trouble on the Little Big Horn, ' ' he said. "On the night before the
 massacre I told Custer that there
 was but one way to get away from the Indians. At that time we thought there were only about 1 1.500 red men. [ But instead of that there were more than 2.000. Most of these men were under Sitting Bull Custer told the men that there was no danger. and | the best thing for us to 60 was to | stay right where we were
 A scout by the name Texas Jack and myself left the camp to take a ! look about This was on the day be l fore Custer and his men were killed. i TeNas Jack and myself rode for some i distance up the river. felt sure
 we were about to be captured. So ! I told him ] would give the Sioux
 war cry for him to answer with the
 coyote yell, for by doing this all
 he Indians would go in the direction {. Of their chief IL worked out just as ! I thought it would.
 All the Indians started in the di- rections Of the chief and we started
 up the river which was the only means of escape. We ran across one
 small group of Indians headed in
 the direction we were going. We made up our minds that the only thing to do was shoot until our am
 intuition was gone and then run.
 We did this and managed to get
 through On the next day the In-
 dians, under Sitting Bull. killed Gus
 ter and his men. We were the only
 two who escaped. If Gen. Custer had
 taken my advice Clusters last fight
 would never have been"
 Morrison refers to many of the principal warrior chiefs.
 While Sitting Bull was the biz
 chief and the ruling spirit over all l the Indians, Crow King, BLACK Moon, ! Low Dog and Crazy Horse, along with many others, were to be feared. { These Indians which Morrison speaks
 of are all mentioned in the history of Custer's last fight.
 ! Morrison, or Deadwood Dick, and Texas Jack stayed together for some
 time They went into Mexico in a
 prairie schooner, which they ob-
 tained by trading their ponies. They
 got one horse and a mule with the
 schooner for the ponies.
 The mule was fast one" said Deadwood Dick, land I entered him