Year: 1874




New YORK Suns Flcrida Letter.


As came down stairs tae other morn.


ing I saw Capt. Frank Sans, q noted
hunter, seated on the edge of the stoop,
/ Swinging his feet into 4 rosebush.


Look here" said he. ssyou think Won
/ know something about Florida murders
The Lang and Cochrane stories amt a


patch to the beauties Of the Suwanee
country Out there they make whole
sale business o, it. Some time ago two
men named Locklier and Mundy lived
near the mouth of the Suwanee river.
They raised cattle for a living Lock


Ter had an average looking woman for a


wife, while Mundy was a EidoWer with
a mighty fac daughter. The two men
got quite thick, and used to COW drive
together and eat in each others houses
After q time Mundy took a fancy to
Loekiier's wife, and Locklier took a
fancy to Mundy's daughter. So they
struck up a trade. After palavering
around, Mundy offered % give his
daughter for LockIieT's wife and twenty
head Of cattle. Locklier took him M
straight, and the bareain was made"


asked the captain what kind Of girl
the daughter was.


g Well, he replied. 81 I've heard she
was plump little GIly, about eighteen
years old. IocklieE's wife was a little
skinny, bat she was a good driver and
worked well in harness with her bus
band. The daughter never made any
objection to the bargain, and the wife,
like most of the women, was glad of
anything for c change. So Mundy drove
of the twenty head OF cattle and the
old woman, and Loeklier shook himself
down IN the cabin with the daughter
Things were all snug. Well, IN about
two weeks Locklier's wife got sick of it.
She declared that her husband was bad
enough, but he was an angel alongside
of Mundy. She went back home, and
swore that she wouldn't live with Mum
dy any longer under any circumstances.
Then Mundy came up to Locklier's
house and wanted his daughter back.
The daughter by this time had fallen IN
love with Locklier, and you couldn't
have driven her out of his cabin with a
unless the old man drove back the twen-
ty head of cattle. Mundy said he'd see
Locklier in hi before he brought back
the cattle, and threatened to shoot him
IL he didn't turn over his daughter,
Locklier told him to shoot and be dod-
drotted. So they parted bad friends.


I interrupted the captain by asking
what the neighbors thought of such pro
ceedings.


"WeiI," he replied, they didn't
have many neighbors. What they did
have were like themselves. They
looked upon the whole thing as a bona
fide bargain, and If one or the other
got cheated it was no outsiders bust
ness. As was saying, Mundy declared
war. He threw up q sort of parallel
around LOckher's house, and bom-
barded it with double -barreled shot
gun. All day long he laid around the
house, waiting for a shot. Locklier
was afraid to go out or even show his
face at the window. For hours he would
sit on a chair with his old rifle across
his knees and watch the door. Whenever
the latch moved he would blaze away
without waiting to find out who was
coming in. Two or three times he
came near shooting his wife when she
was out after pail of water. You see
he knew MuDdy meant business, and he
wasn't going to let him get a twist on
him. Mundy skirmished around the
house until dark. Then he travelled
home and got a good nights sleep but
by daylight Locklier again found him
intrenched outside the door.


"This arrangement lasted several
days, and Locklier began to get tired of
his imprisonment. One night he took
a couple Of stout cart wheels standing
near his cabin, boarded them on three
sides with two-inch plank, and when
Mundy put in an appearance the next
morning confronted him with his move
able battery. The old man had to fall
back. Locklier followed him up the
road with his battery, shelling him at
=, s-,4rS
his headquarters, and his antagonist
took the part of besieger. A dozen
shots were exchanged before sundown,
and at dark Locklier drew back to his
house under cover of the battery. Be
fore the roostera stopped growing he
was again moving up the road toward
Mundy's house, shelling his way every
few rods, and driving the old man and
his shotgun to cover.


IS Well, the war was kept mp IN this
way about week, but at last it had to
come to an end. One bright moonlight
night Locklier thought he would qui-
etly wheel his battery up the road and
see If he couldn't catch Mundy outside
of his Notifications. So he laid his n
ae before him and set the wheels ago
ing. He had showed them about quar-
ter Of a mile, aad was Just turning
curve IN the road when he heard a
scraping noise on his left. Mundy had
hanked him. By the light of the moon
he could see the old man on his knees
behind fence, showing the barrels of
his shotgun between the rails and get
ting his head down TO take aim. Lock
lier had no time to lose He snatched
his rife and sighted it. They fred to-
gether. Mundy fell dead with a rife
bullet in his head, and Locklier tum-
bled into his battery with eleven buck
shot in his breast. He lived about four
hours, and declared if he hadn't been
listening to the crickets he would have
seen Mundy before the battery passed
him. The wife and daughter buried the
two men, divided the twenty head Of
cattle and got all the property.


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