A BULLY SHOT DEAD.

Kumara Times, Issue 1491, 8 July 1881, Page 2

A BULLY SHOT DEAD.

The New Yoik Tribune’s Santa F« special thus records how a brave French storekeeper served a Texan imitator of Ned Kelly ;—“ One Saturday afternoon, at a railroad camp on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, forty miles west of Chama, N.M., a desperado from Texas, named Baker, with two companions, entered the place, rode up to each store and saloon, and robbed each proprietor of all his money and valuable*. At the last store, kept by a Frenchman, the roughs collected every man in the place, numbering forty, marsh died them into line under cover of their six shooters, and cotupelled them all to take a drink at the Frenchman’s expense, Baker doing the honors! Finally, Baker made them all sit on the floor, threatening to shoot any who moved. As he turned, the Frenchman sprang upon him, took away both of bis revolvers, and shot him dead. The other men then arose and fired a volley at the other two roughs, wounding one, bat both escaped on their horses.”