Show L4TEXAS1NCII3ENL 1 Two Noted Desperadoes Authors of Forty ColdBlodded Murders Shot Dead Great Bicycle Riding at the Springfield Spring-field TournamentThe Worlds Record Broken Got TIui at Lust tiiiil Dead Too GAIVESTON Texas September STho News Louisville special says Last night about 12 oclock a wagon arrived in the city carrying the dead bodies of Jim and Pink Lee the noted desperadoes lULl outlaws who for forTWO TWO TEAES HAVE BEEN A TEBEOlt To the people of Delaware Bend and Cook county Last April while John and Henry Raff two respectable cattle men of this county with two officers one of whom was a Deputy United States Marshal were on a searching expedtion iu the CheKokeo Nation foi F iittl 1 i ti g k i Biotheis tntttb y came upon the stronghold of the Lee gang and bravely approached the stockade to arrest ar-rest the cattle thieves The desperadoes opened fire through the portholes of their fortification killing both the Raffs and the two officers whosebodies lay exposed several days and were partially eaten by hogs bince this masacre large rewards have been offered for the capture of the Lee brothers DEAD on ALIVE Bill Lee together with two members of the gang named Star was captured May and taken to Fort Smith Ark for trial before the United States court All efforts to locate lo-cate and capture Jim and Pink Lee have proved unavailing until last evening Many detectives have at various times worked on the case in hopes of securing the numerous rewards aggregating 7000 Yesterday Detective Heck Thomas of Fort Worth learned that the Lee brothers were somewhere some-where in the vicinity of Dexter a small Village vil-lage in this county Taking two brave officers offi-cers named James Taylor and James I Settled with him Thomas started out in search of the desperadoes About 3 oclock in the afternoon they came upon the outlaws I out-laws on John Washingtons ranch where they were cutting a pasture fence I THE OFFICERS DISMOUNTED AND CBEPT I To within forty yards of the unconscious brothers and ordered them to surrender I The outlaws fired on the officers for an answer an-swer and the latter opened fire J with Winchesters Win-chesters killing Pink Lee on the first volley and wounding Jim in the neck Jim fell I but continued to fire as many as ten shots I at the officers before he was finally killed I Thousands of people viewed the remains today The features of the dead outlaws show them to have been ignorant brutal creatures Jim and Bill Lee were leaders of a gang of about twenty thieves in the past two years They are said to have committed I OVER FonT COLDBIOODED MOBDEBS No band of desperadoes and thieves ever infested in-fested the river country more terrible to honest cowmen than the terrible Lee gang The coroner held an inquest on the bodies this afternoon which legal measure was thought necessary in order to secure the reward re-ward to the officers |