The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-15
Whicago Inter Ocenn.)
All the worlds :; stage, and all the
men and women only players:
They have their exits and their en-
frances"

''Ni ''iih OitISI III prayers,
They have their exits and their en-
frances"
And no ono believes this more to-
day than Walter Richard Morrison,
al present mn inmate of the county
Jail. AS Dcndwood Dick his entrance
on the stage of the world was to play
a leading part i'm one of the most OK
citing dramas the west has ever
known. AS Walter Richard Morrison
his exit in tho world is to play the
lowest part on the stage of the life
rs 1T is found in every large city in tho
country. To-day he is a vagrant in
the IVES, side Jail.
From the honorcd place of scout
to General Custer up To almost the
very inn when the fighting comlnan-
der of the Seventh Cavalry fell with
his men on The bloody battlefield of
sh" Little Big Horn, Morrison has
lalien to become Il figure we'll known
To the police and Jail officials of Den
Yer.
His life history is one full of ro-
nance and pathos. In his younger
days he WAS n of the men Who aid
ed i'm the making of the great west.
lodaN he is an old man, past three
score and ten. for whom life SEEM
ingly holds hut little. But even in
49, SSN N'ilaitlbII Ht Is IOl us
heartcned. Although. to use an
everyday expression. he is down and
out, he Still finds something to live
Tor, but his greatest JOY and pleasure
is in telling of the days when he was
II scout with Custer.
Deadwood Dick has been Il familiar
siGht in Denver for 10 years. lie was
at one time wealthy, and until seven
Years ago he was i'm comfortable cir
t1lnlStEnEaC Is1tf cir.,> tl,,t A.
mas been cliing out an existence by
manufacturing and selling an insect
powder. The old mar is Il pitiful
sight as he sits in the Jail. lie has
long, black hair that almost reaches
to his waist, and this he says is the
pride of his life.
i stood Ii all right when l lost my
money. he said. but it would kill
me if ] should lose my hair. 1t is the
only comfort | have"
Deadwood Dick tells IA remarkable
story of his experience with General
custer. 81 was with him during all
the oub on the Little Big Horn"
he said. "On the night before the
massacre ! told Custer that there was
put n way To get away from the
indians. AT that time we thought
mere We're only about 100 e men.
But instead of that there were more
than 5000. Most of these. men were
under Sitting Bull. Custer told the
men that there was no danger, and
the best thing for lis to do was to stav
right where We were.
"A by the name of Texas
Jack and myself left the camp to take
a look about. This was on the dav
before Custer and his men were kill
cd. Texas Jack and myself rode for
some distance up the river. I felt
sure. We were 1hnIt IN LA ,o,,,s.l c..
told him would give the Sioux
war cry for him to answer with the
coyote Yell. for by so doing this an
the Indians would go in the direction
OF their chief. 1t worked out inst
us thought it would.
All the Indians started i'll the di-
rection 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 We're going . We made.
up our minds that the only thing to
do was shoot until our ammunition
was gone and then run We did this
and managed to get through. on
the next day the Indians. under Sit.
ting Bull, killed Custer and his men.
We We're the only two who escaped.
IL General Custer had taken my adj
vice Clusters last fight would never
have been"
Morrison refers to many of the
principal warrior chiefs.
Will" Sitting Bull was the big chief
and the ruling spirit over all the In
dians. Crow King. Black Moon, Low
Dol and Crazy Horse, along with
many others. were to be feared. These
Indians which Morrison speaks of arc
an mentioned in the history of Gus
tors last fight.
Morrison, or Deadwood Dick, and
Texas Jack stayed together for some
time. They went into Mexico in a
prairie schooner. which they obtained
by trading their ponies. They got one
horse and a mule with tho schooner
for their ponies.
The mule Was a fast one" said
Deadwood Dick. and 1 entered him