The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 16, 1892, Page 2

PAID A DEBT IN BLOOD. A Prettv Mexican Girl Wreaks Vengeance. The Slayer of Her Lover Killed—How | the End of «a Western Desperado Was Brought Aboutin a Death Trap. Fiom the San Francisco Argonaut There is an shedding human blood that is fortunately given to but few men to know. intoxication of Some men are more suscep tible to it than otuers; just as some men degenerate more rapidly into deunkards by the drinking of wine than others. It is the blood intoxi cation that makes men Caligulas and Neros, just as it makes man eaters out of ordinarily decent tigers. Ih India it makes men followers of Siva, asin Borneo it makes them head hunters. Sometimes whole com- munities get drunk with it, as Paris has done more than once. Then there is a cutting off of heads to see the red blood flew. Creeds are pe culiarly susceptible to it. This blood drunkenness war. is not Soldiers seldom kuow it In war, when you feel your bayonet sink to the shank in the soft yield ing breast of another, or drop a mau witha bullet, you lose interest in the man you have killed, and jerk out your bayonet or load your rifle for another. Blood drunkenness is merely killing for the sake of killing. After all, there is but one thing more fascinating than death, and that is to see death come, especially when it comes in hot blood and strife while you stand aside and look on to see the brave, strong body shrink asit receives the blow, the brow whiten and hear the breath grow faint and gasping. No wonder that Rome’s greatest building was always crowded with men and women to watch it,foras you feel yourself grow near to what you will be when you have entered what men cali the Valley of the Shadow of Death. A hundred years age this blood drunkenness was recognized by the law prohibiting butchers from serv- ing asjurymen. It is still recog- nized on our frontiers, where the 1e- straipts of law are not so rigorous as in populous communities. A half score years ago it was more common than at present. There were but few sections then but had their blood dipsomaniaes. New Mexico had one and his name was Billy Antrim. Hadhe been an ancient Greek instead of an Ameri can, mythology would have made his cruel ferocity immortal. He was only aboy when he got his first taste of blood. When death over- took him he was but 23, yet he was known to have killed more men than there were years ia his age. All but his mother rejoiced at his death as if a pestilence had been stayed. She grieved for‘him as only a moth- er grieves, and when his body was thrown on the desert like a dog for no man would shelter it beneath his roof—she watched it in solitude to keep the vultures from destroying it until men grew intolerant of its corruption of the air, and buried it out of sight asa thing too unclean to be seen. Tt was in Las Cruces—that strange little town near the Mexican line whose history runs back to the Spanish Conquest. He was young and green and perhaps homesick, and it was not long before he was in love with this girl of alien race, for she was Mexican. After that he found the ranch more and more lonesome and Las Cruces more and more pleasant. Home could not have been more desirable. When aman isin love and his love is re- turned by a beautiful girl, with her presence any place is heaven. It was 60 in this case and Clancy's visits to Las Cruces became yery frequent. One day while he was there there was a prisoner brought into town whose presence created more excite- ment than if he had been the gover- ‘eo to thelr | Charley Clancy. He was young and | he found out that it was too late to | S-veral times she had received {green and they made him foreman | hope for life, even if the best sur- | messages, but fr When the girl—you/|geons in Christendom stood ready kuew. it is} } j of the jury. need not know her | that of a good family, as good as} name, | that of your own, perhaps; and, be {his scoru the cowardice of the man/ these messag |sides, she too is dead now and it! | would avail you nothing—well, when | | she learned this she implored Clancy | \in her terror, to withdraw, but he lonly smiled at her fears and answer | jed ber tears with kis s. She was a! tive of the country and he a stran-| | ger, bat, boylike, he thought he j knew it all. and the that When the trial was over death sentence imposed—for was the only verdict possible— au ey returned to his ranch and his eat tle, promising the girlnot to be long absent. While he gone the man whose death he had voted for escaped from The judge ; who had presided at the trial, in his terror, left the country and went to Santa Fe to be safe, and the girl wrote to Clancy to be on his guard aud come to her at once. Woinan like, she thought that while with her no danger could reach him. He received the letter, and. manlike, though it would not do to leave his ranch as ifm fear. The judge who went to Santa Fe was old enough to be his grandfather. At any other time Clancy would have been only too glad to have gone to the girl at Las Cruces. When he waited and debated when it would de to go to her, one morn ing there rode up to the door two men, and one of them was Antrim. When he saw them it was to» late for Clancy to arm himself. All he could do was to answer their ques tions and submit to becoming their prisoner. The men took their lariet aud tied him in front of his door to a post, and then Antrim told him that he intended to kiil him. Claucy knew them too well to ask for mer cy. If he was to be killed he would meet death like a man. It was hard, though, to leave the gir] without one word of parting. If he had only heeded her letter! When he was tied so that he could not move hand or foot, Antrim walk- ed off 20 or 30 paces, and, drawing his revolver, cailed Clancy’s attention to his right wrist and fired Clancy could no longer feel that below the wrist he had a hand. When he tried to move his fingers the muscles seemed numb. was prison. to have grown suddenly Antrim laughed aud asked him what he thought of such markman- ship. The boy did not answer. A new hope sprang up in his breast They would not kill him outright, merely maim him, and, with the giri to help him, he would not mind that. Anything but separation from her. Then Antrim spoke to him again and fired and the sam2 numb feeling came ivto his left hand below the wrist where be had felt the second pistol ball crush through the bone But he did Surely this wan, who looked so boy- ish and innocent, would be satistied with this much revenge and now and sinew. not wince. show him merey. If Charley Clancy had not been fresh from the east he would know that this was “pointing” a death—an old method of torture | caught from the Indiaus) But now a white man was doing it. There are but few instances where white men have tried their hands at it, All that aman as mau to though it is very simple. there is to do isto shoot many times as possible without kill- ing him, until you are tired of the sport and willing that be should die. The first time it was ever trie:! by one white man on another was on the Union Pacific railroad. They still point out the station to you. It is Julesburg. Clancy though was not long enough in the west to have ever heard of it. Before the day was done he learned it all, though. Shot ‘after shot Antrim put into his arms j;and legs until you could have twist- | jed them like a piece of rubber hose | in any direction you desired. Be- ion would smoke cigarettes and | tocare for his wounts he simply thought of the girl, and cursed in who was murde! Everything So it was with ‘poiatiag the day had nearly ssed away and the g in the west leaving the lonely house on the mes in darkness Antrim grew tired of th sport and told Clancy so, and, wi ing him have ust hen Sun was sin telling it, he emptied his revclver into the stomach and bowels of the} man tied to the stake. Then he and saddled their and Clancy, dying as he was, his comrade woh- dered if they were going to leave him to the night aud darkness, when the coyotes, attracted by his blood, would come to continue the work that day bad seen begun. His mind was still clear, and when Antrim walked toward him he tried to curse the coward he was, ‘till Antrim, pluc- ing his pistol against Clancy's teeth, forced the muzzle into his mouth and pulled the trigger, and then the day’s work was over. There was ro concealm:nt it. Everybody in New Mexico knew what Charlie Clancy had died for, but few men spoke of it above their horses, | 1 about | whom so one alone spoke to her, she declined to 3 Ra sds tell One day she received one of E FAIRBANKS at, after perk os PLAIRETTE | who was the only officer that dared ] S tr | to follow Clancy's murderer. Whe: | she returned he was with ber, and lighted ssing through the & patio, she led him to her room and Qwes ITS REF TATION AND placed him where be could not be =e iccrSs wtPN = mS \ : }seen in tho darkness and then she SUCCESS 9 i 7 5 OWN aud waited in a tap at the window lay down in her bed ‘the darkness as the ADIT CS PET WEODo IT IS PURE, UNADULTERATED AND FOR RAPID Cieansinc Power HAS NOEQUAL. IT 1S INVALUABLE IN KITCHEN & LAUNDRY. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. N-K- FAIRBANK & C6: ST. LOUIS. hours p {until there wa le house w su quict that it seem i to echo lke a pistol rot, bat she ging to window {arose, and | 5 ' opened it and fet a man enter, who {threw his arus about her and kissed | her passionately and |fully of the time they had been sep | 1. he room was very dark and as spoke reuret | I | she ied him from the window toward | = — | ; (the bed, where the other man crouch: | ed hid, she could almost feel her! |heart beat The man, whose arm was round her waist, noticed her x a e O n trembling aud drew her more close i When they reached the} jved she drew herself gently from ily to Lim breath. The judge who went to [bh wud lay down. She fancied | > Santa Fe stayed there No man | e could hear the man who a e 2 anc roce res cared to meet Autrim. There was / was conecaled breathing as she lay Lo] 5 one officer in the territory who bad the courage to make the attempt to apprehend him, but so well did the murderer conceal lis movements that it was impossible to follow him. | Rew. | yet uu sue cared to earn them. Who Chiney’s body was found, it was .a.cn Las u the little graveyard where after reward was off-red, into Craces and buric the girl's forefathers for generations back Lad Leen buried. Through it all, the girl did not break down as most people would. People said she was cold, though at evening she woull come with her beads and! | between him and the man who had | jjust eutered. The air of the 100m | seemed to stifle her, as if Jaden witl! death. Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. AUECNSWARE AND GLASSWARE CICARS AND TOBACCO, Then she turned and spoke to the man who had entered, telling him | to light a :match s> that he would not ma've any noise by striking the when he demurred | that he might not be safe, she an | furni aad }swered him that, as the village was | ; j es : ‘hin, For, Always pay the highest market price for County then tae j 2HtIle {sti uck a nwch, and the tiny spark East Side Square. Butler, Mo- grew into a blu | : asleep, no one could see him ja moment he hesitated and Produces » Showing the room | plain and distinct. Only for an in ae pray by the new wade grave until | stant. though, for then there leaped darkuess caine. jout across the bed on which the girl Ouse day she was missing; no o: e| lay a jet of tire aud the man who NEW FIRM? NEW GOODS? kuew whither she hid gone. Soon, ; held the match fell to the ground} though, rumors returned that sii- | witho ta groan, The air of the was 1. the different frontier towns | room w thick with the sime!] of sas oue of the She Arneric: public daceing girls. among the was beau She ho tiful and Lad nv lack of Lovers. and men seemed to be without fear, matter how desperate the whom her lot quailed ‘Phe La Leona—the lioues- Was Cast sie Americans ed her Where men squandeced their money gained by rubbery and murder in wild ogeries, in which men fought and killed each other like mad animals, she Th: wild- tbe apparcutly the Her beauty} Was so great that many men, even} among the Americans, offered to make wife. But she only smiled, aud refused all with a cour Was ways cool aid unexcited. erthe crowd, tue worse ab, more she enjoyed it. meu who composed her a tesy and gentleness that made them wonder that one could display it. in her Whea she was at the height of her popularity, she; disappeared. No oue kuew whither, althuugh some said she had left te join a band of desperadoes near the Arizona Ine. Wherever it was, nothing was seen | of her for months, and then one day she returned home, but only a shad- ow of her former self’ At first ber jfather would not permit her to euter the house, while her mother cried jaud embraced her as if she had re- turned from the dead. Then the father, too, relented. Perhaps he thought it would, after all, be but for a short time, and it would be better that she should die at home than as an outcast. passive and indifferent to all. Wheu night came she went to the little graveyard aud prayed over the grave that still was the newest. When she had spent the mouths of her abseuce she never told. To all questions she gave an evasive an- swer. It was said by some that her | tween the shots he and his compan-jreturn home was due to the break-| ing up and scattering by the author | Having purchased the stock of goods known as the | powder, and through the house could | affright, but in! no one stirred or uttered a Grange store consisting of GROCERIES & DRY GOODS, souly when ihe door of | ‘ re 1 ites ‘be beard calr | rin the roon word. ‘Phe man was dead or only wounded, and the man who had shot ned quiet, fearing*that af | ter all lis shot might have failed | ; fe ithe roo. was opened from without | bin rem: to say to iny many friends that I have re- aunt the light showed a dend out-| plenisled the stock and fitted up the store room in isteetehed figure on the ground that he came forth, and then the girl rose shape an I would be glad to have all my old friends call and see me. PORDUCE OF ALL KINDS WANTED. ‘fro athe bed and gaz-d coolly down jon the body of the man who had! murdered her lover. This is pretty good. 3 Mr. John C. 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