DEATH OF "DEADWOOD DICK."

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16841, 22 May 1920, Page 10

DEATH OF "DEADWOOD DICK."

[ Richard Bullock, widely lniown to • renders of -Wild West" literature as i Dick,*' died in a sanatorium i i? Glonaaie, California, in February, row of the boys who ussd to read oci counts of Bullock's adventures in rounding up and arresting highwaymen and other outlaws knew tnat their favourite . il er r w . as ?? Englishman, yet surh -svas I __ * ac fc- Ho wss born in Cornwall over - 7o years ago, and went_ to America at tho age of _1. For a ti - T!e he was en- • gaged in mining in. the Black Hills, hut • the coachcs running from the mines to the settlements were robbed so regularly and persistently that t>e minr^were . m despair. _ At that juncture Buiio-k 1 R av ®. "P. mining, buckled a sii-sho'atar 3 to 1n , 3 ?} ' « nd "-cnt after the "road - +i? Gr V In 01 ' was on© of _ the famous home stake gna'-ds," who guarded bullion from the Hnme Slake Mine, belonging to tho late Senator tearst. Tt was wh.de so employed that lie put out of business "Lame jornnv," . one of the most daring of the desprraa coes on tie Chryenne ro:ite. ■ "Lama r Johnny steppad out into the road to • hold up tho stage which Bullock was ) guaidmg. Bu.lock "got liis man" be-tore-lie could move. s -