LADIES FIRST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

LADIES FIRST.

In tlie days when tineves and desperadoes infested tiio Rio Grande valley, I,on Hill, now the richest Indian in the .world, gave "P ;l Ia w practice of several thousand dollars a year to go into the region to rid it of outlaws. On 1 day one of the leaders of a gang of cattle-thieves sent word to Hill that hi* would kill }i! 111 and braid Ivs black hair into hr'dle-reins. 1 hey met by chance on the road on; 1 day. One mail rode away .It wis Lon Hill. Then the desperado's wile, herself a horsewoman and a dead'V shot, took up tile feud. yi>e could ride •at breakneck speed on horseback an.! eniptv two revolvers full of bullets into the bark of a sapling. One of .Mr. Hili's fr.'ends asked him Meal; he would do if he were attacked and had tn fight a woman. " I would [trove the gallantry of r gentleman," he sa : d. "f would extend to lies - the courtesy of the first shot."'' They never nut, but no one wh > knows him doubts tliat Hill's cliivaliy would liavo stood the te't.