DEATH OF "DEADWOOD DICK"
Richard Bullock, widely known to readers of "Wild West" literature as "Deadwood DickT '(Wed -in a sanatorium at Glendale, California, in February. Few of the boys who used to read accounts of Bullock's adventures in rounding up and arresting highwaymen and other outlaws knew that their favourito hero was an Englishman, yet such was the fact. Ho was born 5n Cornwall te 75 years, ago, and went to America at the ago of 21. For a time ho was engaged in mining in the Black Hills, but the coaches running from the mines to tho settlements wove robbed 60 regularly and persistently that the miners were in despair. At that juncture Bullock gave up. mining, buckled a Bix-shooter to hiss side, and wont after tho "road agents. Inter Bullock was one of tho famous ■"home stake guards," who guarded bullion from the Home Stake Mino, belonging to the late Senator Hearst. It was while so employed that he put out of business "Lame Johnny," one of the. most daring of the desperadoes on tho Cheyenne route. "Lame Johnny" stepped out into tho road to hold up the stage wliioh Bullock was guarding. Bullock got his man" before ho could move.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 5
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204DEATH OF "DEADWOOD DICK" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 5
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