A BOY DESPERADO

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2552, 17 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BOY DESPERADO

A BOY named Ulysses Nelson, alias Williams, aged fifteen, made things lively for a p'l-sie of policemen at Hastings, United States, early the other morning. An Omaha dispatch says he was wanted for theft, and was found on a train. The conductor warned the policeman who went after him that the little fellow was armed with a big revolver. Policeman Balcombe approached the boy on the depot platform and asked him what he was doing, "Nothing much,'' was the response, Thereupon the officer flashed a dark lantern upon the youth, who, without warning, fired at him. The bullet struck the officer two inches below the heart. Balcombe nevertheless followed the young desperado for two blocks and then fell exhausted. Meantime the police department was notified, and the members, with Sheriff Barlass, mounted horses and started in pursuit, but no clue of Nelson was found until six o'clock, when ho was found located in some weeds in the southern outskirts of the place. He was ordered to throw up his hands. As he showed no disposition to surrender, the sheriff ordered the party to open firo on him. Twenty shots wore fired without effect. Officer Mitchell then crawled through tho grass to within a few feet of tho boy, when both opened firo at each other. Nelson received a bullet in tho left cheek. Mitchell's ammunition failing as well as that of the other ollicers ho withdrew. Nelson slyly crawled to tho fence, and mounting one of tho officer's horses which had been tied there, rodo off, closely pursued by one of tho posse named Clark, who was unarmed. Clarke, at a safe distance, kept track of Nelson. Tho other officers reinforced themselves with a fresh supply of ammunition, and resumed the pursuit. Nelson at last hid himself in a cornfield. Parties from Ayr who had been notified started out with shot guns. Clark took a gun, and getting within range, fired a load of buckshot at Nelson, who, Indian fashion, leaned over the Mo of tho homo and escaped tho charge. Nelson then fired at Clark, slightly wounding him in tho right hand. Nelson's pursuers now closed in on him, and ho finally surrendered. Littlo hope is entertained for the recovery of tho policeman Balcombe. The despatch concludes: — "Should Balcombe dl\ Nelson will bo lynched." Tho goal is surrounds 1 by a ppeoial guard.