Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-18
DEADWOOD DICK AN OUTCAST
MAN WHO WAS WITH CUSTER AT THE MASSACRE AT LITTLE BIG HORN HAS HAD REMARKABLE CAREER.


1 in a race. There was considerable money up and when the mule came out in the lead cleaned up a lot of money Texas Jack left me soon after that and don't know what became of him. He was mucE oIaeI than ] was. [ guess he must be dead
 Has Had Two Fortunes.
 T started to travel after he left me and have been all over the coun- try. I went back to Montana and got a lot of sheep. l was very wealthy twice, was almost a millionaire once. and the second time I was worth more than $500. .00O
 T married and had one child, a daughter My wife died about a year after we were married. After my daughter was married I did not see very much of her i married again and my wife and I worked in the mine. She was killed by falling rock and I was struck in the head by another rock and badly hurt. Since that time have not been able to remember very well l cannot remem- : Der the dates of Casters last fight. or many other things that were very interesting to me. have had two ! farms. one in Montana and one in | Dakota. l sold both of them and everything else I had and started | to follow the races.
 My travels took me down into : Texas: l don't remember the name of the place. It was a little town. l went into a saloon to inquire the l shortest trail to a certain place The place was filled with cowboys One of them. whom , recognized as a tenderfoot stepped up to ne and asked me to drink with him
 I told him that ] had some busi- | ness to attend 10 and I could not take the time. He told me that if l did not drink with him he would fix me. l was without arms, and told him that I did not want any trouble. As I talked with him I rec ognized him to be a man by the name of Dave Leahy. I had known him in the East, and l remembered of whipping him
 T recalled the incident and told him if he would come outside until l got my gun would repeat what l gave him in the East
 By this time his brother stepped up and placed a gun at the back of my head. l told the two men that l would fight them a duel. We got on our horses and started. 1 killed Dave after the second shot had been fired. l don't remember the brothers name, but he shot me in the left hand and had 10 have it amputated. I killed him with the next shot, Texas was small place then. The boys took up a collection for me and I had al most $500.
 T then bouht two race horses, l took the horses to al lthe big meets in the East an dmade ood money with them. I brought them to Denver from St. Louis. Then I took them up to Cheyenne. When came back to Denver some one stole the horses from me. One of them avs worth SS,00O and the other I was offered SIP, 900 for. After l lost the horses II was practically broke and have been ever since"
 "Deadwuod Dick" has been in the county jail once before. He was sen teuced to thirty days on a vagrancy charge, and his time expired last Saturday. He was arrested again Sunday and started his new sentence yesterday.
 When arrested before ne received letter from a man in Colorado City asking if he were one of the scouts under Gen. Custer The man said ir the letter thot if he were he would give him something to do and ses that he never wanted for anything "Deadwood Dick" never answere+ the letter. Tn referring tO it yestor day he said:
 T have always been able to take care Of myself. and although I an almost so years old l will not live off any one. When cant work TT go to the poorhouse'
 'Deadwood Dick" is also quite q poet, and the last verse Of a com position he wrote in the jail yester day reads as follows:
 The truth is I am old and discOur-
 ager.
 My clothing is seedy and poor. And the merchant. God knows I don't
 blame him,
 Refuse to trust me for more.
 But I'll pay the last cent and be
 honest:
 No mortal on earth will I rob; Then toddle away to the poor farm
 The John Smiths will give me a
 job.