The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 01, 1912, Page 6, Image 6
FOUR-EYED JACt
FOOT, A
Story of an Exciting Cha
Robbers in Montan
U. S. Marshals
Around the table in a Montana J
ranch house a circle of weather-tan-;
ned faces bent in perplexed contem- J
plation one night in 1894, is the set- !
ting of a story in the Spokane |
Spokesman-Review. The lamplight |
gleamed on steel work of revolver!
mimri'nor frnm h fll Und i
UUISTB V.U1 ? 1U5 ? vua ?
flickered along rifle barrels set handily
against the wall. Spurs jingled
as the men occasionally shifted position.
Rain beat heavily on the roof
and glistened down the illuminated
square of window pane.
With their big, dripping hats pushed
back several of the men eagerly
sorted scraps of paper from the
*? ?c ~ "n latfor niloH in I
remnants ut <x ium*up icwvi
the centre of the table. Painstakingly
and not altogether in tame silence
another of the number tried to
match these scraps on a short piece
of board, pinning the pieces in place
when he found what seemed to be a
fit.
They looked like a roomful of
rough, healthy men absorbed for the
moment in freaky pastime, but each
face remained fixed in purposeful expression
until the man with the
board announced his success by
reading out the name of "John Chapman"
as the person to whom the letter
had been addressed. Then each
looked at the other in comical query
and everybody laughed.
"Four-Eyed Jack," they chorused,
with the emphasis that resolves the
most solemn proposition into absur'
dity. But the letter piecing went
steadilv on and the gayety simmered
down into a hum of shrewd question
and speculation.
The ranch house was situated near
Judith Gap, between the Show and
Belt mountains, and it was occupied
by J. C. Farrington, now a business
man of Spokane. His guests that
night comprised a posse under the
leadership of Sheriffs Ramsey, of
Yellowstone, and Conway, of Park
counties, each with a following of
resolute, impatient men from Billings,
Livingston and Big Timber,
hurriedly impressed into the pursuit
of three uncommonly nervy hold-ups
who had robbed the Northern Pa/
cific train the night before just east
of Reed's Point. The robbers were
masked and the smallest of the three,
a boy in build and manner, held dozens
of passengers under the muzzles
of his revolvers while his companions
gathered in a harvest that amounted
i to several thousand dollars in cash
* ?1?- fnftlr o nncric
ana jewelry. iiicjr aiov W-?X?. a.
tered mail sack, proceeding leisurely
in the taking. Many of the passenv
gers were as heavily armed as the
hold-ups, but the little fellow with
the big guns looked altogether too
business-like to trifle with over a
mere matter of being robbed.
With an expert trailer the posse
had followed the tracks of the flying
three up into Judith Gap and there
they lost them, exactly as if the trio
had taken an aeroplane at this point.
In the search for footprints, however,
the keen-eyed riders noted torn
scraps of a letter scattered in the
grass, and these they gathered. It
had been windy the day before and
the scraps must have been dropped
since then, they reasoned otherwise
they would have blown away. As
no other tracks led up to the place
but those they had followed, hence
the letter must have been discarded
by one of the gang whose trail they
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were sure tney were uu. ou mc; j
came together that night at Farrington's
ranch to put together the letter
and confront themselves with the
ridiculous possibility of "Four-Eyed
Jack" as a train robber.
Chapman had come into the country
some time before. He brought
his spectacles with him and wore
them constantly, by reason of which
he quickly acquired the nickname
suggestive of quadruple optics. It
was always used hilarously and never
had it aroused a symptom of resent
merit from Chapman, it resentment, |
resistance or any other human trait j
useful in Montana had been includ-1
ed in Jack's disposition no one had |
yet found occasion to suspect it. In!
carriage and conversation he was the
typical misplaced refugee from some
divinity school, cast by heartless circumstances
into the cow country.
The range roamers used to take a j
look at his smooth, boyish face and !
then theorize exhaustively on how j
and why Jack ever escaped from his j
mother's apron strings. It was a
standing bet at big odds with no:
takers that Jack would faint dead
away if a bloody nose ever assailed j
his vision. He couldn't stay in a
saddle with anything under it that j
moved perceptibly and his state of i
mind in the presence of firearms was j
similar to that of a wild pony observing
a train collision at short
range. In brief, Jack passed, pitied
C, TENDERREAL
BAD MAN.1
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se and Capture of Train '
a.?Battle Between <
i and Robbers. \
and protected, as the mildest and t
most hopeless form of tenderfoot t
imaginable. To find, at the end of 1
a hard, wet, determined day on the <
trail nothing of more consequence as ?
a clew to train roDDers uian ms name ^
on a torn letter possibly proved as I
fatal as anything to the pursuit. It 1
appealed to the posse as about the i
same thing as discovering a pussy *
cat in the man-eating tiger's cage
at the circus. 2
Farrington was one of those who 1
couldn't get the mental focus of gen- ?
tie "Four-Eyed Jack" holding up 1
trains. . He was not the only one J
there thus handicapped, and the 1
chase "bogged down," as they ex- ?
pressed it. But they did some fig- ?
uring before they quit, and by a pro- 1
cess of elimination deduced that if *
Jack was one of the robbers Charley *
Jones must be the other. Jones ap- *
pealed to Farrington as a pretty fair 1
hold-up probability on account of *
previous experience. He had drifted *
in from nowhere in particular, so ap- *
parently poverty-stricken that he was c
willing to herd sheep. Farrington <
gave him a job at it and found that 1
Tnnae moc tho cnrt rtf man ahppn in- '
stinctively placed confidence in. *
Such creatures, whether human or *
otherwise, are worth keeping around 1
a sheep ranch, but Jones got up and *
vanished one midnight with a cocked 1
revolver in his hand. He heard the
dogs barking around the tent where
he and Farrington were sleeping.
Farrington ran after him, but Jones ^
explained that he couldn't stay where c
the dogs barked at night, like folks ]
were prowling around. If Farrington
had a dollar or two in change (
he would accept that on his two- g
months' work, but a check would be
no use to him. He acted in all re- ^
spects like a gent with something on i
his mind and his trail, and Earring- j
ton remembered him as such.
Yet Jones appeared to have import- ?
ant business thereabout, for he came j
back presently, and about this time \
"Four-Eyed Jack" developed an unaccountable
fondness for his company. \
In fact, Jack seemed to seek it. Rid- (
ers came on them frequently together,
and they appeared to be uncom- ?
monly interested in whatever it was ;
they were discussing. All these things i
were recalled casually at Farring- t
ton's ranch house after .they had 1
pieced the letter together. i
But the trail had vanished. "Four- <
Eyed Jack's" advent had given the s
expedition a farce-comedy turn and t
the posse gave up the pursuit, with i
one exception. That was Jackson. He c
looked as much the desperado pur- I
suer as "Four-Eyed Jack" looked the
desperado. His weight didn't drop a i
notch under 250 pounds, and he car- s
ried most of that in front, under his t
belt. An amateur getting acquaint- 1
ed with his first gun could have hit c
Jackson at the mile, and a one-legged i
man ought to have left him in the g
stretch. But Jackson had an eye t
that glowed like smothered fire under \
his shaggy brows, and his face, fring- 1
ed with glossy black whiskers, was c
intelligent and unfearing. He said i
little in the debate at the ranch house 1
over the pursuit, but every time he a
got the chance he voted to go on
regaraiess 01 aiscuuictgeuieuc ui mo- u
comfort, although in the latter re- a
spect he must have been the worst s
sufferer in the posse. q
Nobody evinced any particular im- d
patience with Jackson because of this
persistence, for he was known to pos- a
sess the disposition of taking criminal s
catching rather seriously. Previously i
he had, single-handed, captured a p
particularly desperate character, the
latter ceasing to be such in the course d
of the capture. He mistook the ac- r
curate and swift capabilities of Jack- a
son's avoirdupois, becoming a corpse ?
thereby, with utter amazement left t
engraved upon his features. \
The posse at Farrington's ranch r
took note of Jackson's exceptions to t
going back and voted to leave "Four- i
Eyed Jack" to him if he felt that he 1
wanted Jack personally, together i
with Charley Jones, if the latter hap- i
pened to be included.
It developed that this was what \
Jackson did want, for he went out in 4
the trail alone, working on the theory (
that "Four-Eyed Jack" and Jones t
were the right men to look for. Men c
used to meet him here and there and ]
ask him solicitously if he had the \
terrible tenderfoot in his pocket. <
But Jackson eventually discovered 1
that three men were traveling to the <
Blackfoot reservation, up in the
northern part of the State. Then he i
went down to Helena, secured an ap- ;
pointment as deputy United States 1
marshal, picked out a posse of seven ,
men and also headed for the reser- (
vation.
Jackson appeared to have become
i fairly well posted in the course of his
HYDE WANTS TO DIE.
Disappointed that He Must Wait Until
May to be Resentenced.
Anderson, Jan. 25.?Samuel N.
Hyde, the young white man who killid
his wife and her father last July,
md who was sentenced to hang on
Dctober 20, but whose sentence was
stayed pending an appeal to the supreme
court, expressed himself as
Deing a little disappointed because
;he clerk of the supreme court failed
J *-* ?kin oon/v I
;o sena me reiuiunui m m? wbc
jefore the January term of criminal
;ourt adjourned. Hyde has expressid
his willingness to die for his hor ible
double crime, and his disapjointment
is because of the fact that
le cannot now be resentenced to hang
intil the May term of court of general
sessions.
Hyde's demeanor has been a puz:le
to everyone. He seems to have ;
'epented for his atrocious deed and
teems anxious to hurry to pay the i
jenalty, yet in the meantime he is i
iovial, enjoys a good joke, spends 1
lis time in a pleasant state of mind
md is perfectly cheerful. He has
itated from the night of the double
nurder that he expected to "have
;he rope" around his neck, and when
alking about it, with death staring
lim in the face, he is a great deal
nore unconcerned than the person
o whom he may be talking. He likes
o have callers in his cell, and seems
;o take a delight in keeping up with
current events, especially with murlers
and other diabolical crimes comnitted
throughout the country,
iyde sa^s he has made peace with
jod, and knows that he has been
'orgiven. He states that he reads
lis Bible regularly and spends a
arge part of his time each day in
irayer.
The Missing Ducks.
In a country police court a man
vas brought up by a farmer accused
>f stealing some ducks, says London
ideas.
"How do you know they are your
lucks?" asked the defendant's counsel.
"Oh I should know them any
vhere," replied the farmer, and he
vent on to describe their different
peculiarities.
"Why," said the prisoner's counsel,
"these ducks can't be such a
are breed. I have some like them
n my own yard."
"That's not. unlikely, sir," said
;he farmer; "they are not the only
lucks I have had stolen lately."
"Call the next witness," said coun
sel.
esearch, for he led his men promptly
;o a lonely cabin in the wilds of the
Indian land. They came up in native
,'ashion and located four men in the
iabin. By some certain process Jackson
worked out the correct deduc-r
ion that three of the cabin's occu)ants
had robbed the Northern Pa;ific
and met there to plan a Great
Northern holdup, as developed later.
The seven men and Jackson surounded
the cabin and demanded a
surrender. Immediately the cabin
^ a 1 aoH
)egcin LO UXUUt emu. IV/ cuudui u ivuui
Che posse shot at the holes and
thinks in the log walls, while the
nen inside shot at the flashes outtide.
It Was a hopeless fight for the
>esieged from the start, and they
rould have surrendered but for' their
eader. By reckless disregard of his
>wn safety and energy in defence he
nspired a struggle that was as galant
a thing in the way of resistance
is men have ever done against odds.
They held tfce cabin until toward
Lifcht when a bullet smashed through
tnd the leader died from it in the
moky, dirty muck of the besieged
[uarters. And a deputy marshal lay
lead in the brush outside.
At dark the three survivors made
l dash and got into the woods. Jackon
and his men looked at the corpse
n the cabin and again started in
rnrsuit.
The finish was not a difficult or
tangerous matter. They picked one
nan up half-starved and freezing by
l pile of ties on the Great Northern.
Somebody took the trouble to shoot
he third robber and collect the regard.
The fourth proved to be a boy
ecruit who gave himself up and
urned state's evidence. At the trial \
n Helena he told the story of their
eader in the cabin battle, a crimilally
desperate man, who robbed for
)astime and fought to a finish.
The capture marked Jackson in
jopular estimation as a man who
'would die with his boots on," an
expectation he fulfilled by falling
through a scaffold into the basement
)f the capitol building at Helena. He
lad served successfully as the first
jnder-sheriff in Sweet Grass when
:hat county was created, although he
was an ardent Republican and his
superior a Democrat.
Throughout the range and moun- I
tain country he was recognized as an
authority on tenderfeet. The robber
they found freezing was Charley
Jones, and the dead leader turned
over in the cabin wore the smooth
face, minus the spectacles, of that
guileless, timid greenhorn, "FourEyed
Jack." s
DEAD BODY ON TRACKS.
Respected Negro Merchant of Clinton
Slain.
Clinton, Jan. 24.?A homicide,
possibly with robbery as its motive,
was revealed early this morning when
the body of Paul J. Moore, a respectable
and well thought of colored
merchant, of this place, was found
lying across the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens Railroad track, just
on the edge of town. The body was
discovered by some men on the way
to their wprk a short while before
the early morning train comes from
Columbia. It is supposed that the
slayers wished in this way to put the
blame upon the railroad.
Paul Moore was in the habit of
furnishing food to the night section
of the sewer diggers, and near him
was found a bucket of coffee and an
axe that belonged to him. His body
was many hundred yards beyond the
Bewerage ditch and on the extreme
opposite end of town from his home.
The doctor's examination revealed a
badly fractured place on the back of
his head and two wounds on his
face. Paul owned some property in
and around Clinton and was a prosperous
merchant. He was in the
habit of taking home with him all
the money that he collected during
the evening. Nothing was found in
his pockets. He never got drunk and
did not play cards.
The whole of Clinton is considerably
agitated. The event is deplored
by every citizen and efforts will be
made to find the cause and mete out
justice. Because of the lack of definite
evidence the inquest was postponed.
THE STANDARD IS FINED.
Required to Pay $55,000 for Accepting
Rebates.
The Standard Oil company of New
York was fined $55,000 in the federal
court at Buffalo, N. Y., on Monday
for accepting rate concessions from
the Pennsylvania railway in 1906.
The maximum fine penalty would
have been $2,860,000.
Some time ago the Pennsylvania
was fined $35,000 and the New York
Central $20,000.
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11 for the West to buy a carload of Horses ]l /
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