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ITBANDIT CROWLEY.U| ferocious blood-hound, which came -j charging around on me like a wildKwi»i HU Promt!* to »o 10 vaiirnte •nit beiist 1 iiumediately shot the dog itrgiHtrr. and skipped into the bushes.Phil Crowley, that much wanted In some unaccountable way the of-man, and he who has filled every ficers had got on to my schemeand inSgorge and glen and peak and pine of the Caliente and Havilah country with terror enough to put a thrill into the pages of a hundred yellow novels, was in Caliente the other day. He came down from the mountains, justconsequence were soon after me. They 1 overtook me and a fight ensued, in which I was shot in the arm. I got away and went to San Francisco. The next time I saw them was w hile sitting in a surgeon ’s chair in that city :like an ordinary citizen, to register, having my arm dressed. They then I just as he said he would He wants arrested lue and took me to Martinez, to vote this fall. lie is a free silver The’ tried and convicted me and gave man and wants to stand up and be me t,lal twenty-live years sentence, counted in November. j M' falher wa» there during the trialMuch to Mr. Crowley’s chagrin the and s!**t $6000 to get me out. This man who registers voters was not at ' and brooding over the sentence caused Caliente and therefore he will have to me to crazy. make the trip again. ,,ere Crowley grew very earnest. !But while in the canyon village I and w»*h emphasis exclaimed : Oh,. Phil did not propose to allow his visit 1 was crazy all right! The next j to be altogether barren of pleasure, thing I kt ew one day I came to my j even though it was a failure from a senses in the asylum. They returnedbusiness standpoint, so he proceeded a» lt;I“ick as a ,lash I then reinem-to enjoy himself as best he could or as ^red 'bat had happened, and after the town would afford, and he did it thinking over the situation concluded in a very nice gentlemanly way. to P,a’ crazy till an opportunity pre- : The first thing he did was to take a rented itself for me to get away. I few schooners of beer—good cold beer. did and * came as quick as I could lo a most detectable draught to a mount- 1 Walker's Basin and 1 have l»een here |Alain man. This was followed by a good dinner served up by I)oc after his most pleasing and artistic manner. Then came a good cigar and a conversation with tlfe boys, in the course of which his stern face broke into ripples of smiles and he remarked with considerable feeling:The poor fellow, he said, referring to one of the posse whom he encountered a fortnight ago I shall never forget the look of him that morning at the Bellinger house when he fired at me. His soul was right down in his boots, and such a look of complete dispair that was on his face ! I could have shot him, but my sympathy was too great for him and it matters not when and where I meet him I would not hurt a hair on his head. I could have killed him easy enough, from meever since.That story about the officers of Alameda and Contra Costa chasing me last fall in back of Haywards is all false. I was not the man. 1 I was right here in these mountains i when that happened.After this conversation, during which Crowley seemed to be as mu« h at ease as a man could be, a game of cards followed, in which he took a great interest. Alter several hours had elapsed Crowley took his departure, bidding the boys a very friendly good day with the hope that he would soon meet them again.He had more of the appearance of a determined man than a bad one, and the one uppermost idea through all of his conversation was that he did not propose to serve that 25 years.Fand he did not stutter when he exile was only about 30 st-.ps pressed it. either, when he fired. When he »«■ it Dunimm «»r «'r«»wiry?raised his gun 1 waited till he pnt his finger on the trigger and then jumped to one side and his shot missed Of course 1 then turned andme.ran and he ran after me. Therein I am competed to say he showed grit above other members of the posse. I could have kdied Sheriff B rrgwardt, but I did not want to. If they had followed me very far I would haveRock P11.K, July 1. 1896.Dunham was supposed to have leen seen at W. II. I .unison's ramp last Saturday night. He came there almost .sundown and asked for something to eat and some hay for the mule he was riding. He came from the direction of Breckinridge mountain and inquired the way through the Tejon pass. That evening liehurt some of them. 1 do not propose said he would start early next morn-to be taken alive. That twenty-five ing, but next morning when daylight years in Kolsoiu is too much forme, came he was gone. No one thought I do not propose to serve it out. of its being Dunham till then. TheyI have nothing against any of that all say he fills the description exactly posse it they will let me alone, ex- as has beey given in the papers. He cepl Tom Castro, and I propose to wore a brown corduroy suit and akill him on first sight. He was the scoundrel that gave me away to the oilicers. I thought he was my friend and I put confidence in him and he betrayed it.A* to firing at that boy in Walker's Baain-would not Blade s house and I told him I would.white slouch hat. with two revolvers in his belt and a idle on his saddle. What made it look more suspicious, he would not take the saddle off his mule and when supper was ready he would not go in the cook house until lam not guilty of it and a|i the other man had gone ahead, be. I did burn up Sam , j|c ate a hearty meal, but waited tillevery one had goneEjWWout and then heHe knew I was Crowley all the time, come out and went to where his mule because he brouKhl me city papers **»; There ,s where he was last aeen ..... K „ He looked tired and worn out and thewith my pictures in them. I gave who MW him le„ n||mb*r arehim two g.Kxl tickings too because all positive that it was Bandit Dun-he would not pay me for work I had ham. J W. Hdone, work for him in his mine. I [This answers the description of thehave nothing against him and do not man seen 011 Krskine Creek last week, propose to molest him any more with the exception that that one had Crowley then launched out at length a horse and not a mule. He might and related how and why he was sent easily have changed animals, how-up for twenty-live years by the Contra ever. —Kir.J Costa authorities.They charged rue with burglary. Therein they were mistaken. 1 did not commit the crime. However, 1 attempted it all the same. The truth of the matter is I went to the fellow's house one night with the intention of robbing him. I went to the front•• rick-anrt-pan.(r. N. Stockton has decided to remove his pa|*er, the Kyrie, from Te-hachapi to Mojave, where it will be isssucd next week under the name of Pick-and Tan. As it is devoted to the mining interests of Kern county, the new title will Ire most appropn-door and knocked, expecting him to ate. The people of Mojave have cx-open the door and then cover him tended very liberal encouragement to with my pistol. But instead of open-1 Mr. Stockton, recognizing as they do ’ ing the door as 1 expected, he went that a paper is essential in the ad-to the back door aud unloosed a . vancemcnt of that section.ww
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The Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1896
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