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Show AN OUTLAW'S FATE. How He Was Strung Cp by Regulators with His Wife a Few ltods Away. A body of vigilantes in Texas, who had become wearied of continual depredations depre-dations by outlaws, says a correspondent correspond-ent of the New York Telegram, heard of a band of armed men prowling along the river and went to look after them. The outlaws were followed across the river into the Indian Territory, and in a dense thicket near Golden Bluff they were rounded up. A line of pickets was placed around the thicket, but during dur-ing the night the outlaws slipped between be-tween the lines and escaped to the Texas side, carrying with them the body of a wounded comrade named Cope-land. A few nights later a party of vigilantes vigi-lantes went to Copeland's house and found his young wife there, and by feigning to know his whereabouts deceived her. One of the party pretended pre-tended to know his hiding place, and by accident started in the direction where, Copeland was secreted. The woman followed, and in her anxiety to save her husband rushed to the spot where he lay hid in the forks of a large oak tree. In spite of her entreaties her husband was placed on a horse and carried away to his doom. It was as bright a moonlight moon-light night as mortal man ever gazed upon when that band of grim regulators regula-tors crept through the shadows of the forests of that hilly country, taking from the heart-broken wife the doomed hnsbanX They wound along the narrow nar-row pathway that led down the side of the hill, with no sound except the monotonous tramp of the feet of horses tir.d men and the rustle of autumn L-aves that lay thickly upon the ground. Finally a halt was called, the rope was adjusted around the outlaw's neck, and the horse upon which he was sitting sit-ting given a sharp blow, and his lifeless life-less form left daugiing in the air. A wild shriek rent the air as the wife of the dead man rushed into the midst of the regulators with blanched cheeks and disheveled hair. She was carried to a neighbor's house and left there. The next day Copeland's body was taken down and buried. |