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Show ' A DEADl.T Dl'EL . (jeorL-e SlaVTMin of Vi-alia wiittio the f'oilowiuL' dc-lails id' a liidctjUd irjiiedy' ! to the N'irtrinia EnU rj,n'i,- "There has Wen aooilicr it-rrinlo liht with otio of the escaped blaie prison con- ( viols. The particulars ari! as follows: Kraii(.-is S. Anniead, ihe man wbo wa one of the foraniost in the taking : of Roberts, Morton and Black, found the track of Charley Jones about tifty ! miles from the head of hoc? Valley, on the San Joaijuin liver and trailed him to my sheep camp, where he was stopping. Arruislead had tome talk with Jones, telling him he wanted to j hire a man to drive liores to Arizona. I Jones hired to him for the trip, and thus matters rested till morning, hi the morninc Armi-siead told me what was up, and said that he expected to have hell belbre he Rot through. While we were talking Jones went to the house and gut my Henry rifle, when he came out and said: "Here, i you d d son of a b h, I know your business. You want to lake me Daek lo Nevada. Hell, I will die first." When ho had thus declared himself, he at once drew up and fired at Armi-; Armi-; stead. Armistead instantly returned the fire, his shot taking effect in Jones' right breast. The fight now began in dead earnest, and, both men being armed with Ilcury rifles, it was fearful. fear-ful. There was almost a constant con-stant stream of lire. And it seemed that nearly every shut took I eflect. The men were about Ihirly ! steps apart. Jones kept giving way, Armistead following him up till he fell from loss of blood. When Armistead i fell, Jones rushed upon him, but Armi-I Armi-I stead raised his gun again and lired, ! shooting Jones through the head and i killing him instantly. Thus ended tho ! most desperate fight ever witnessed in I the country. Armistead fired fifteen nhotfl, hitting his mark twelve times; , while Jones, the convict, fired eleven shots, nine of which took effect upon the body of Armistead, and cither of the wounds inflicted would probably have proved fatal." Armistead lived about two hours j after the fight. Tie was the coolest man I oversaw, lie said that' if lie , had killed Jones lie was willing to die. I lie requested me to write of the af-I af-I fair, and his last words were "Tell j her I love ." When ho first fell, ho I spoke of "Aunt Sallie" and "Charlie." j Through the request of a dying man, I I ask you lo publish this. j HISTORY 01' JONLS. Wc may stale that Chares Jones, tho dead convict, was a native of i Ohio and agotl twenty-two years. Ho j was sent lo the Sin te prison from White , l'ine for ton years. 'She following dc-' dc-' scriplion of his personal appearance ! is from the commitment book of (ho prison : "Ilighl, five Icet. ten inches; i weigh!, one hundred and lbrty-nino ! pounds; small ears; light brown hair; ! hazel cyce; thin black beard." He , was considered to bo one of the most ! desperate of the escaped convicts, and j the fight he made, as described above, j shows that the popular estimate of his ! character was quite correct. The j whereabouts of Jones has for some I weeks been the subject of all manner : of conjectures, and many were of the opinion that ho had made good Wh escape to Arizona. The latest rumor concerning him wad that published in the Carson Rftyistcr, which was to the effect that he was killed by Cockerell and Burke, Jones having threatened to kill Cockerell or rather proposed his death to Burke as lie was footsore, foot-sore, and was retarding their flight. The place where Jones' body was supposed sup-posed to have been concealed was searched, but no body was found for the very good reason, as we now know, that he was still alive, and had yet to make one last great fight. |