The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-03-29
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..veu vou're a cool one" Rogers ad ih't.e
grudgingy. DO you know nave '0u
with my Colt? -, rox laughed |
Yes but you won't dare to shoo'' IVA
quietly Ill, lilo IN know" |
r,co,rs answered back Il hsTe over hu"ulen
mod men outside and you only nave lou' '1o
with you so my men tell me -. mo or mo.
Nevertheless you won't dare shoo' M nooore
Loot my men You under arrest WI a
for Illicit ivory-poaching murder aorrying
closed district without permit On"
oun without license. - :; 80"
So that is what | charged WILL 10 tSor
Popers smiled grimly Have you h0
charges to prefer! =, .bo+ rost until
you're wounded now. Let all 'ha' ie''
YOU are better. ~ Won know
NO I'm a diving man. | guess. DO you Aho"
- in rho Belgian territory, that you are sur
r-rdod bv nv men, and that you stahu HUI
chance of arrest than DO? ,, .i
Won are mistaken. not in Belgian terri.
,ory and we need not discuss the chances Vi NY
arrest" -. .,o
Captain Fox deemed it wise not TO excite tle
man any more and silently Wlthure" MN ~
room Once outside he set to work TO usaihl
tho followers of the dying Rogers. This was soon
accomplished for they were cowed, now tha'
their leader was helpless.
In the middle of the night a natlVe seiNah'
came to Captain Fox to say that Rogers was NY
ing and that he wished 10 speak to the Queer
The soldiers did not want him to 90 into the
house again. But Captain FOX was no' " o W
tered.
As he entered the house. Rogers turned to MS
white companion, saying:
doctor | wish you to hear and be witness TO
what am going to say to Captain Fox. sur
render myself voluntarily to the Sudan govern
mont 7 want you to that the doctor gets
into no trouble over this affair, captain be-
Heye am dying man, that am not going
IN lie about it, This my show and all my
work The doctor is blameess.
On the following afternoon the three soldiers
who had been sent ahead arrived at the VII
lage and gave Captain Fox an account OF tnelr
experience
They stated that on arriving in the poacher
stronghold Rogers ordered them to give up their
arms He seized his Mauser rifle and opened
fire with it and a revolver. His companion. the
doctor also fired on the soldiers with Winches
ter. Others attacked them with Winchesters and
with arrows. Had it not been almost dark, the
soldiers would have been killed and, as it was
they all had narrow escapes, all of them being
hit.
. In the fighting Rogers struck by soldiers
bullet which lodged near the hip, but he walked
to his house and sat down in a chair
BY this time Captain Fox was satisfied that ~
was on Belgian territory and wrote to the BEL
gian commandant to explain the occurrence. two
days later the Belgian officer arrived on the scene
with large escort of troops.
The day after the arrival of the Belgians, Roc
ers was obviously dying, and sent for Fox III
was conscious to the end and described his symp
toms.
Say. captain you big fellow and strong
Lift me up more-for the last time n
muttered 81 shall not be here tomorrow. In
still pretty heavy, amt To-
Fox leaned over him and gently raised him o.
the bed with his arms under the dying man
shoulders
I'm sorry, Rogers" he said. But you brough
this on yourself"
Il know, old man. You're all right l woul
rather have surrendered to you than any ont
Goodbye Doc. Good-by, captain. Remember, tn
doctor is innocent, all my sh-"
His head dropped back as his spirit went
render it's last account to its Maker. Gently Flo
laid the body of the poacher on the bed and the
turned away to escape the sorrow of the docto
who was deeply unstrung by his friends dealt
And SO this man died, far away from his friend
and country. Full of courage and grit to the en-
his fate was worthy of better cause. So did til
curtain fall upon the most dramatic tragedy
the history of the Congo elephant poachers.