The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-17

are only news letters. Please remem-
ber this.
have some grandchildren living in
New York State.
"Then I went to Deadwood, S. D.,
where I went into the mining busi-
ness. I married again and my wife
and worked in the mine. She was
killed by falling rock. I was struck
in the head by another rock and
badly hurt. Since that time I have
not been able to remember very well.
l cannot remember the dates of Gus
ter's last fight, or many other things
that were very interesting to me. 1
have had two farms, one in Mon
tana and one in Dakota I sold both
of them and everything else had
and started to follow the races.
my travels took me down into
Texas; I don't remember the name
of the place. 1T was a little town.
I went into a saloon to inquire the
shortest trail to certain place. The
place was filled with cowboys. One
of them, whom I recognized as ten
derfoot, stepped up to me and asked
me to drink with him.
81 told him that / had some busi-
ness to- attend to and I could not take
the time. He told me that if I did
not drink with him he would fix me.
I was without arms, and I told him
that did not want any trouble. AS
I talked with him I recognized him
to be a man by the name of Dave
Leahy. I had known him in the east,
and I remembered whipping him.
sI recalled the incident, and told
him if he would come outside until
I got my gun I would repeat what !
gave him in the east.
''By this time his brother stepped
up and placed a gun at the back OF
my head. I told the two men that
I would fight them duel. We got
on our horses and started. I killed
Dave after the second shot had been
fired. I don't remember the broth
er's name, but he shot me in the left
hand and I had to have it amputat-
ed. I killed him with the next shot.
Texas was small place then. The
boys took up collection for. me, and
I had almost $500.
'I then bought two race horses.
took the horses to all the big
meets in the east and made good
money with them. I brought them
to Denver from st. Louis. Then l
took them up to Cheyenne. When
I came back to Denver some one stole
the horses from me. One Of them
was worth sS,000, and the other
was offered $4,000 for. After I lost
the horses I was practically broke
and have been ever since"
"Deadwood Dick has been in the
county Jail once before. He was SEN
fenced to thirty days on vagrancy
charge, and his time expired last Sat-
urday. He was arrested again Sun
day and started his new sentence yes
terday.
When arrested before he received
letter from a man In Colorado
City asking if he was. one OF the
scouts under General Custer. The
man said in the letter that if he were
he would give him something to do
and see that he never wanted for
anything. "Deadwood Dick" never
answered the letter. In referring to
it yesterday he said: 81 have always
been able to take care of myself, and
although I am almost 80 years old,
I will not live off any one. When 1
can't work I'll go to the poor Aouse. "
"Deadwood Dick" is also quite a
poet, and the last verse OF a compo-
sition he wrote in the jail yesterday
reads as follows:
s'The truth is I am old and discour-
aged,
My clothing is seedy and poor,
And the merchant, God knows l
don't blame him,
Refuses 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"
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