Show ROBERT SMITHS DEATH story of the right by the of the rustlers cheyenne wyo july 28 the body ot of robert smith killed in the tha holo flolo la ia the wall fight was buried sunday at buffalo the story of the fight as told by the friends of the tha rustlers places tho the blame upon the cobb cowboys eye they say that bob and at al smith and al taylor had been rounding up horses preparatory to rearing leaving tho the country the rustlers were on their way homo home to the tha red fork ranch when they met twenty five men of the Ogal lalla and C Y outfits nearly all of the men passed them except bob devine the foreman who was coming up behind devine smiths friends assert fired at once the roundup round up men circled around and the fight became general al smith lent a hand but al taylor stood off to one side and took no part bob smith fell from his horse with a wound in in his right lung and another in the abdomen after lie had emptied his revolver ile he T w as able to retreat to a knoll where lie he tried to load his revolver and rifle rife but was to weak to use them al smith fired right and left with his revolver until etwas it was shot from his bis hand band ills right band and left arm were wounded but not seriously about a hundred shots were exchanged before the firing ceased the cowboys then captured taylor and disarmed george comstock john jones and sam terril whom they found near the bar C ranch bob smith lived until 9 the next morning ills his wife and relatives being with him when he died |