DEATH OF “DEADWOOD DICK.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 1 June 1920, Page 6

DEATH OF “DEADWOOD DICK.”

E ‘Richard 1 Bullock, widely known to ereaders of “Wild West” lite;'atTure as “Deadwood Dick,” died in :1. s=.:lnal‘ol'ium at Clendale, California, in February. Few of the boys who used to read accounts of Bullock '5 ntl\"'elltul'e;~: in rounding up antl. :11'res'ting lligllw:lymen and 0111101‘ outl:l\\'s k11l‘(Y\:-W ‘tllat their favourite hero was an l%l'nglishman, yet such was the fact. He was born in Cornwall over 75 years ago, and went to .‘unel'ica at the a§;e‘ of 21. For a. time he was engaged in "mining in the Black Hills, but. the coaches running t'rom the mines to t.he";~:ettlements were 1~ohl.)ed so ‘regulmly and twrsistently that :he miners were in <_le.<p:lil'. At. that jumsture Bullock gave up mining, buckled a SiXSlloo’(€l' to his side, and went after the “road agents.” "Later Bullock \.\.':ls one of “the f:lmout< “home stake g11:1I'(ls."\\'l1o: gu:11'(le(l bullion t'rom the I-lome Stake: Mine, belonging to the late Senator‘ H(‘:n'st. It mus while so enlployedl that he put. out of lJ‘.lSll3(.‘:‘»S “Lmnei Johnny,” one of the mo.~'l‘ during of the cle.sper:l<loe>' on the (The_Venne3 foute. “'l}ume Jolln‘ny” stopped out into the road to hold up the stage which Bullock \.\’o.<. gu:ll'¢lin;_>;. Bulloekl “got. his man” lletoro he, could move.