The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-12-11
CABIN, GUARDED BY
DYNAMITE, FAILS TO
I. PROTECT An OUTLAW
psputy Marshal Learns 81 Where.
shouts 81 Alleged M~oenshinsr
and Takes Him unawaress
EeundinS Up Gang.

David Hall. OF Pike county. KEN
tucAy. after eluding government OFF,
ears all summer, was surprised and
captured IN his dynamlte-guarded cab
m near Bluehead Notch Of the Cum
beriand mountains, q few days ago
Wath his arrest all the -moon-
thiners" accused Of the assassination
q two government revenue officers
ana the desperate wounding Of q third
are In custody.
The capture OF Hall came after d
chase which rivals the exploit In Ore
ron OF Tracy. the outlay" few
syears ago. Hall. however. did not per-
form his deeds on ~ public o stage
on did Tracy, 30 the world outside was
mot aware Of thu dramatic events that
were happening back In the Cunber-
land mountains, In that region OF ad-
venture and desperate enter
prise which. though lying close 70 the
center or population IN the United
States. remains q Land reuaete "a
mysterious.
United states Deputy wlIiam Fields
guccecded In capturing Hall, when
Hall and his companions killed two OF
FteldE comrades, Fields had been bent
On capturing the outlaw. But the
stretches OF the Cumberland are hum
dredH Of miles long n there are M
Vulnerable valleys streams and nOekS
whore a q can hide. There ARG no
telegraph or telephone wires to Hash
mcssages that viii trail q fugitive.
There are no railroads to carry the
pursuer once he has found o trace or
his man. H2
The chase Of Han by Fields was
carried on under the conditions that
prevailed centuries ago, when IL was
hNsVSaOn AnVuraU ma , oUArRPonnA and f0R0-
nuity pitted against the same qualities,
highly developed In the other man.
Fields had to 20 through the noun
Gaina on foot seeking Hal, for there
are not eve wagon roads back In the
Cumberland and horseback riding ID
al last Fields located Hall In the
Bluehead Notch country. Hall had
,Grtands gcattered through the country
and he became aware that Fields was
after him. For weeks he and Fields
played same Of hide snd seek
Through the mountains.
Protected With Dyuamita.
AZ last Fields discovered q cabin
hidden In q receys 30 remote AZ al
most to avoid detection. which Hall
was using as his hiding place. He
also discovered thar Hall, who pos
wegHed great ingenuity and conslder-
able mechanical skill, had fortified his
place in o most remarkable manner
He had procured dynamite which he
had planted In mines around his re-
treat. BY an ingenious contrtvance he
had arranged electric wires running
from inside the cabin to these mines
by means OF which they could be- ox-
pioded from within by q battery.
III Fields had not discovered the So
cret OF these mines he ana his depu-
ties might have been blown UP when
49, anmuxeaA Va pnnt1rrA fhA unn1Tn-
tatneer2 But he did learn OF them
and made his plans accordingly. ~
Just before dawn Fields and three
men surrounded the cabin. Fields
crept forward and cut the wires. He
then called on Hall to surrender,
khe outlaw II he refused.
Hall says he tried to explode his
mines, but when he found the wires
had been cut 1t was useless. He sur
rendered meekly enough and the chase
The capture Of Dave Hall was the
Decond thrilling chapter IN this story
Of the Cumberlands. The nrst came
The whole story arose from q Young
girls effort to make her brothers
leave tho devious ways Of lawiess-
ness. o.
sixteen year-old Ardella Hall. ais
Ner OF David and Hiley Hall, discovered
that her brothers and Tim" Riddle
were operating q moonshine sf1l In the
Cumberiands. She knew that United
States Revenue Agent Mark Potter,
Deputy William Fields and others were
mighty alert and that her brothers
woEid Doubtless end their career in q
She begged them to quit the stiIl,
hus they pefused to take her advice. Al
last she went to Deputy Mark Potter
and. ON hie promise that he would NOT
arrest the boys, but would only do
son, she told him where II was To-
Gated She agreed 10 guide the ofn-
Ger to II. @ a
Two Killed at sem.
Potter summoned John Shane and
3ohn Ramey as deputies one night
In May the three men. guided by the
mountain girl, set out for the still
early morning reached this place.
Ardelia Hall had agured on heI
brothers being away. She thought they
had gone to another part OF the noun
taiHfa, She was mistaken. ,u.3.
The Hall boys and Paddle We're n
the still. They heard fhe apDroachtna
offcers, hid themselves and m the
three came in range poured o deadly
hail OF bullets upon them. Sloane and
Ran1ey fell dead at once and Potter
Aropped. with 10 wounds in his body
The 'smoonshiners" then fed. Ar
della Hall mounted the horse Potter
had been riding and rode 70 miles "a
hiring aid. a5. .3gt# .N ..
Despite his desperate wounds. Pot.
Der recovered. n' "
Riley Hall and Riddle were surprised
by q posse az, the home Of relatives
IN the mountains a few days later and
were captured. Dave Hail got away
and eIuded the officers from May until
October, when the pergistency OF Rev.
enue Agent William Fields brought
him I'M
The three are now I'm Jail at Pike
yflle. KY, awaiting trial. Death ~ the
probable penalty for their crime.
Ennlish and American Boys.
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