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Show SAW IT JN A W.EA31. A 9PiniT VISION THAT CANNOT UE REFUTED. Urn. Cook tell. "f "' "wsrr lllo In tolor. I..-TU KIHI at V llamsry Mlti.ra.rJ 'T "' '"' " sjllra lllstant. 'Bpcaldnit of lrfm flml rumonl-tlons," rumonl-tlons," said Orn. I. J- Cook bo for tblrD-fltr years b l""1 c"'" "' ,be llocky Mountain Dctfctl'e AMotUiion. and for two terms nrrlfl at l),n vrr durinn tlm "palmy "" of the Western city "speaklnK ' ream and premonitions reminds me 0f n ttranxe psycholoitlcal nappeiiltn tlioi came under my own personal obi.rta-llon obi.rta-llon as a delcitlve. her "tuillnu Uetertltes as rule re not iuper-ttltlous, iuper-ttltlous, and the Idea of orkliie out the clew to a crime on mere aream Is widely at variance " lltlve methods. They aenerslly ilf"d upon up-on material farts ns ttiey nna them iilnhtmare of terrible ml cinipllraird death and murder Med true In every Ingle detnll." wllh their own c)cs and ears Imt the following reminiscence, related by Uen Cook, Is so strnnite tht even the wily detective has to admit that there Is something In drenras." It Is theitory of the killing of n fellow detective, and of the killing of to hone thleves-the thleves-the story of a woman's dream thrill-Ing thrill-Ing In the eitreme aril yet faithfully true In every particular, as attested by the criminal record of the West The story deals principally "I"' Alex Hamsey and bis wife, and Is located at Hayes City, Kan., tho time bclni the fall of 1876. liamsey, at that time, ai about 35 years of age, and as fine a specimen of manhood as Is met In a day's Journey. He vat thorouihly a Western man frnnk, jenlal and liberal lib-eral to a fault aa brate n man at ever "put spurs to n horae" when duty called him to "lion, He was a good detective, excelling especially In hit dealings with deaperate chnracters, A few years before the date of this story ' he had married a confiding Irnpres-I Irnpres-I tlonable little woman down In the .,- ourl Valley, who loved him devol.dly She depended upon him Implicitly, be-illeved be-illeved In his prowess In nil matter.. and really worshiped him 8oon after I their marriage they removed to Hayes City, near the Colorado line, and then ' the terminus of the Kansas l'tinc I railroad n lite, bustling tonn full of life and abounding In the rough characters, char-acters, such as accompany the building I of railroads In the West. Hamsey had not long been at Hiyei j City, when his courage, aa well as his many other manly qualities, became J known to the people of that place, for he frequently bad occasion to old In the handling of tho violent spirits congregated con-gregated there. Henco It came about that wben the people of that place wanted an executive officer ln whom they could trust, they selected Hamsey, Oen. Cook, as chief of the Ucky Mountain detective agency, heard of Hamsey. and In 1871 nvlted him to become be-come a member of his association. The offer was accepted, and Ham.ey bo-rame bo-rame one of tho most active ofllcers of the organisation, always conducting himself so aa to win the approbation and maintain the confidence of his I chief, Hamsey had served one term as sheriff of bis county, and In the summer of 187G was re-elected, virtually vir-tually without opposition Helng In I Denver soon Jitter his re-elrctlon he 'told den. Cook that he was the first sheriff who had ever lived to be elected to a second term In Hayes City, his three predecessors having been killed before the expiration of their respective re-spective terms of office, "I hate gone through one alege," he said, "and I am going to try It again The chances are that I shall be killed, but I will take tho chances." It was In October following his visit to Denver that Mr. Hamsey was raited upon to go In pursuit of two horse thieves. A character well known on the frontier In those das as "Dutch I'ete," and known by no other name, accompanied by a "pal" whose name Is not known at all, and one night made a raid upon a band of horses belonging be-longing to man living In Colorado and stampeded thirty-five head or them. When the owner aaoke the next morning be found bis animals gone, ALEX HAMSfir. but be was able to asrrrtaln that riie . thieve, had taken their booty In the i direction of Smoky Hill or the itepub-llcan itepub-llcan river Ills first Impulse, aa h afterwarda explained, sa to pursue them himself, but remembering the skill and courage of Hamsey In running run-ning down such character he changed his mind and went to Hys City and put the case In hli bsnds, Hamsey cheerfully took charge of the matter, securing Frank Shepherd, a friend In whom he ""d confidence, as an assistant In to work before hlra, and. kissing b' "" good-by, rode off In company lln Shepherd, going toward Smoky IU1I with the In-tentlon In-tentlon of cutting oft Ibe retreat of the IBBaM(MateiH Ihleves Mrs Hnmtey somehow teemed to let I an unusual desire to hold blai back, although she said nothing to blrn. tor she knew that he would attend at-tend to his duty In spite of any fore-budlngs fore-budlngs of hers, which he would con-Mer con-Mer rhlldlsh. womanish fear At midnight the entire household ilarllo.1 Into wakefulness by a hor-rlfylng hor-rlfylng scream that ermrd to come from the direction ut Mrs Hnmeey's room. All were astir In a moment and all rushed pell-mell Iritis her apartments. apart-ments. Iliey found her out of bed In her night clothes and her two chll-'Inn. chll-'Inn. one of tbeui a mere baby, cllng-"ig cllng-"ig to her. She was talking In an Incoherent In-coherent manner at the tup of her o'c, and the children thoroughly 'r'lhleiied at their mother's manner, ere crying loudly. Those gathered about the woman finally succeeded In 'Pilellng her nnd at list procured an explanation from her. "Huili a hor-"il, hor-"il, horrid dreamt" she exclaimed Oh I know It's true! I saw It Just as plain aa day plainer than 1 see you Just as real and terrible a. II I had been there. I Just know that Alex It 'lsd I didn't want hint to go I never n ni) life to lunged to beg him not to KO I wlrh I lud " Alter this tuc winon he a-ne moie 1UU4 and luld those standing about ner MHS RAMSI'Y. that she had dreamed that she bad seen her husband and Shepherd came upon the hcrso thieves and attack them; Unit tho thieves had alnrtcd to Ilea on their horses, Ibnt the ofllcers ofll-cers had followed and fired upon them, the tblevea returning the fire Three men bad fallen almost al-most slmultnnoously from their horses, two of them being the fugitives and the third her husband, who had been fatally shot. Her dream bad continued so as to take her out to search for ber husband with the hope of meeting him upon his return Instead In-stead of meeting him alive she encountered en-countered covered wagon, which sho described, bringing In his body, seeing see-ing which she had screamed ao loud that she awoke both herself una the others asleep In the houtt. She ro-tuad ro-tuad to retire aRaIn that night 'The onlcoDifortthtialia,. saeuied to receive re-ceive was In the asturanco that ns .can as day should break ahe should l driven out In the direction which her butband bad taken, "1 know I shall meet that covered wagon." the said; "I Just know It, but I ant to go, anyhow, any-how, and to know the worst." Ac cording to promlso she wss allowed to start out from Hayes City nt very early hour on the succeeding morning a friend accompanying her 111 a carriage. car-riage. They had driven out a distant, of fourteen miles without meeting any one. wben there began to dawn a ray of Hope that the dreadful vision of the dream would prove to have been men ly a hallucination. Hut the poor woman wom-an looked eagerly forward for the purpose pur-pose of getting the tint view of that which the most dreaded to see. tang as It waa In coming, the wagon came In sight all too soon Itlslng up over the summit of an elevation In the plains and looking down the descending descend-ing grade she saw, coming slowly toward to-ward her and her companion, a covered cov-ered wagon drawn by two horses. Throwing up her hands so as to cover her ryes she exclaimed with all the force of posltlvo conviction- "My Ood, there's the wagon" After the sight of the wagon she refused to be comforted and only urged her driver to Increase his speed, sobbing as if heartbroken aa they pushed on The woman'a dream had been moro than a drrj4. It had been s real vision, vis-ion, TlusHad been no deception. The vehlclBjuat aa ahe had described It, uVll lay the lifeless body of ber husuiiW- all Just as she bad dreamed It. W Inquiry revealed the fact that thi shooting had incurred as It had appeared ap-peared to MrsUtamsey, and Just as she described It to half a dosen witnesses before leaving Hayes City, The officers bad come upon the thieves In the afternoon after-noon of the first day out, thirty-live miles from Hayea City, aa they were concluding their dinner aud preparing to continue their Journey. They nod mounted wben they discovered the officers of-ficers riding dawn upon them. The thieves knew Hamsey, uad their drat thought was to escape from blm ut all hasurdt. They aicordlngly put spurs to their horaes, leaving their slulen animals behind. The officers spurred up their horses also, and were soon cbalng the thieves across the plains The two parties were not leta than sixty yards apart wben Hamsey said tu Shepherd, after having summoned the fugitives to halt Well, I don't tee that there Is anything any-thing to do but to bring them down Tou take the one on your side and I'll take the fellow on my aide" Tbla speech had hardly been spoken when the two thieve turned In tbelr saddles, with pjstols presented. It was plain to be seen that tnere must pJj. deadly duel there and then. aHfl "Won't you surrender?" H Hamsey, M "Never!" was the reply. H "Then we will kill you." H 'Tire awoy" r "fllve It to m," commanded nam-1 ley. I There were four pistol elicits coming in close togither at to sound like a volley. One of the thieves, the one at whom Itamtry had thot, reeled nnd tumbled from his horse dead The other reeleu but did not fall, and Shepherd spurred on after him, nut noticing that Hamsey did not follow After galloping a abort distance the second man fell from hli saddle, mortally wounded Turning then for 1he first lime. Shepherd, who waa unhurt, discovered that Hamsey linil been knocked from hla horse He had been shot through nnd through, the ball passing near his heart There n,i ranch n few miles dl.tant and H I'uherd determined tu make an e'fort to get hi friend to It He also iK Ided t. leave the thieves where the had fallen, "Dutch Pete" proved to jo the man nt whom Hamsey Ham-sey had directed lilt aim He It was who bad shot Hamsey Hut Hamsey's shot had gone straight home, passing through I'eto'e henrt The other thief was also mortally wounded and soon died, Their bodies were rovered over i with stones and left where they had fallen. The stolen horses were gntb-r gntb-r ed togeiher and ictiirnrd to their owner. I A for Hamsey, he was taken to the ranch referred to and was thero given every possible attention. Hut after lingering un In great pain, he died at 12 o'clock of the night succeeding the shooting at the exact hour when Mrs Hamsey waa having her strange and startling dream. The body was then placed In the ranchman's covered wsgon, and the cortege started for Hayes City, meeting meet-ing Mrs Hamsey on the road. The anguish of the woman waa pitiable. pit-iable. She refused to he comforted after her husband's death, and two weeka after the funeral ah was a raving rav-ing maniac Tour months afterward her unhappy tplrlt deserted the fleth and she Joined her husband In another world. |