Vi 2 F/D He Hadn’T Shed Was His Six-Shooter

• pMjMpHHfcC 414ft '¦ ' } -**- \ A Few Days After 25,000 Roomers Pitched Their Tents on the Guthrie Townsite. Somehow These Hardy Pioneers Managed to Survive Without Sewers, Water, Proper Food and Heat. word get around that he had a lot of treasure buried somewhere. Ramey sidled to the cell. As the jailer put his head close to the door, Doolin slipped a hand through the bais and grabl>ed Ramey’s six shooter. “Thanks, Jack, I’m feelin’ much better,” Doolin barked, “now unlock that door.” Helpless, the jailer turned the lock. Doolin jumped into the corridor and ran for the exit. A shout brought the jail guard. A bullet creased Doolin’s shoulder. He whipped out a shot from the stolen six-shooter. The guard fell. Outside The Rose of The Cimarron was wait- ing with two fleet horses. Doolin’s mysterious visitors had carried word she would be there. The pair galloped away before a posse could give chase. WASN’T long after Doolin’s escape from IT jail before he slipped into hiding with his wife. The old Indian scout, Bearclaw, was put on the trail. One night his keen eyes saw a prairie gHjgi^L schooner draw' up near the home of Edith’s father at Lawton. A few hours later Tilghman and Heck Thomas with a posse of deputies were slipping up through the dark around the Ellsworth home.. They watched Doolin and his wife make sev- eral trips out of the house with bundles that they piled into the wagon. Finally, they came out iVady to go. Doolin was carrying his baby. Edith turned and kissed her parents good-by. “May th’ Lord guide you to safety and a better life,” Edith’s father said. Doolin helped his wife into the prairie schooner. Just before the outfit moved, Heck Thomas crawled over to where Tilghman had been v * listening. A v v “What's th’ plan?” he asked. “This is a hard job, Heck. I can't shoot that mmsm ~ man a baby arms,” Tilghman < ?, his saaffigggßgrag -^iippry 1 with in whispered. “There’s only one road out,” Thomas said. "I’ll ride down a piece and w-ait by the roadside.” ipr dend why he didn’t. Tilgh- man told Poolin why. It was only a few minutes before he made cut “Don’t make me kill the figure of Doolin leading his horse. When Doolin you. Bill,” Tilghman said was 50 feet away, Thomas stepped into the road. as the pair struggled. “You “Throw’ up your hands, Doolin. We got you savt d my life at Rock cornered,” Thomas ordered. Fort. I don’t want to have The outlaw was carrying his rifle in the crock to take yours.” of his arm. He jerked it to his shoulder and The words must have fired. ,p, scream /</. //«« yffs».^fcfc!* > soaked in. Doolin gave up. Thomas shot back and Doolin fell. A '_ Tilghman had captured came from the prairie schooner. Edith Doolin the Territory’s most des- Jumped to the ground and ran to her husband's side. perate outlaw’, single-hand- “This one got me, honey,” he gasped. “I’mdone chase going?” I asked him, being, of course, curious. ed and without a shot fired. for. Take care o’ the boy. Don’t let 'im follow “Fine!" BUI answered, “I’ve found a sitting duck As Bill took his prisoner to his room and helped my trail.” our old friend Doolin. You know Edith an’ the pack his things he saw a silver mug. The outlaw chieftain was dead, but there were baby pulled out o’ their old haunts around Lawton. “I got that for my baby,” Doolin said. “He’s a still more to catch. The Rose of The Cimarron, For a long time we couldn’t locate her. An’ she's dandy boy. Yuh won’t believe me, but I was Cattle Annie and Little Britches still had a big th’ one tie that was bound to lead uv to I *x>iin.” goin’ straight from now on. Edith an' the little account to square with the law. “How did you find ’em?” feller an’ me were pullin’ stakes an’ makin’ a fresh “A long time ago Edith left a ring with Mary start soon as I left here. Reckon that’s all off now.” Next u*ck Col. Mootz will tell how the rest of Fierce, who runs the Ingalls hotel whrft* I>oolin’s “Yes, I’m afraid so. You’llbe lucky »f they don’t The Wild Hunch was eaught and Oklahoma was bunch and The Rose of The Cimarron outshot us hang >*u, but I’ll promise you one thing. I'll rid of outlaws. that day. It was a ring Bill had given Edith before promise that your little they wore married. Last week a letter came to boy gets his silver mug.’’ Mary from Edith. One of my men got it. She asked Doolin was a sick man Mary to send her that ring. She said she and Rill when he landed in Jail. an’ the baby were headin’ West. Visitors came to see him, “I just got a wire that said th’ hen’s on th’ nest talked quietly, then left. at Eureka Springs. I'm leavin' tonight.” One night a couple of The next day Bill Tilghman checked in at the weeks after his arrest the outlaw began acting like Eureka Springs Hotel. He had decked himself out . - a city dandy in an Easter parade. The only he was on his last legs. a vi 2 f/d he hadn’t shed was his six-shooter. He called Jack Ramey, the Tie strolled around tillhe found his man. Poolin night jailer. Ramey came was sitting in a corner of the lounge half hidden by running and found him a paper. Bill walked toward his chair like hr* was hanging onto the bars, looking .around for a seat. Suddenly he shoved his gasping for breath. six-shooter against Doolin's side. “J a c k J a c k—” he Poolin jumped to his feet and grabbed for his called. “I’m—dyin’. Come own six-shooter. But Tilghman caught his wrist. closer. Somethin' I want The marshal could have killed Poolin with one to tell yuh—’fore I die.” Oklahoma City’s First Wholesale Grocery Store Did a Land-Office move of his trigger finger. A lot of people won- The desperado had let Business I nder This Old Army Tent. Tilt: /• MEItHAX WEEKLY 17.

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