A TEXAN NED KELLY.
The “ New York Tribune’s Santa Fe special thus records how a brave French storekeeper served a Texan imitator of Ned Kelly :--"On0 Saturday afternoon at a railroad camp on the lino 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 r.nd valuables. At the last store, kept by a Frenchman, the roughs collected every man in the place, numbering forty, marshalled them into lino under cover of their six shooters, and compelled them 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 ha turned, the Frenchman sprang upon him, took away both of hia revolvers, and shot him dead. The other men arose and tired a volley at the other two roughs, wounding one, but both escaped on their horses.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2586, 5 July 1881, Page 2
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174A TEXAN NED KELLY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2586, 5 July 1881, Page 2
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