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On Monday, November 24, Brown and James Bullis, both cowboys employed by Narcisse Narcelle, who has a ranch out near White Owl some SO miles from Sturgis, were butchering a beef. Brown was living “bach” on the Narcelle ranch with Jim Belcher, but Bullis had his home some distance away.After butchering the beef Brown, who seemed in a strangely ugly piood, gave his gun to Bullis, telling him to throw it a wav, as he feared he would kill somebody if he kept it. The men had no quarrel, but Bullis, who did not like the look in Brown’s eye, took the weapon and threw it into a water-hole.Brown then went away, but later in the day he returned and. coming to the door of the ranch house, in a wild aud excited manner declared to Bullis that he was 'a second Tra ey.’ “I’m a second Harry Tracy,” he shouted, “and I guess I’ll cut your head oil a id use it for a football.”Bullis was unarmed and altogether unprepared to defend himself against such an attack. Brown, like a madman, sprang upon him with a knife and in a few seconds Buless was stabbed several times. The weapon used was an ugly pocket. knife with a blade nearly three inches long. Bullis was cut in the left side of the neck, this wound be-
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The Black Hills Union
Rapid City, South Dakota, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1902
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