BUFFALO BILL'S MAN HUNT

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12740, 17 December 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

BUFFALO BILL'S MAN HUNT

TO CAPTURE BANK ROBBERS DEAD OR ALIVE. • -; " ■.■:':.'— :■" ■ \ CASHIER KILLED. New Yoek, November 2.— Colonel William F. Cody, better known as " Buffalo Bill." ig to-night engaged in a desperate man-hunt;-in ..VWyoming. Four bandits trisd to loot a bank at Cody, a town mostly owned by the! colonel, and incidentally killed the cashier,-; Colonel Cody has resolved to capture those four men dead or alive. t; : * The town of Cody is situated in the terri-. Tory regarded by train robbers, bank robbers, and other free-lance bandits as their own peculiar property. Masked men have frequently held up trans-continental express trains carrying bullion or specie, and the looting of a bank in broad daylight is acommon occurrence. ; Tie usual tactics were adoptee by the four men who attempted to rob tie bank at Cody yesterday. Two of them walked up to the*cashier's window. One carried what appeared to be a cheque. The other kept his right hand in his overcoat pocket. THE CASHIERS FATE. Tie cashier, with a huge Colt revolvei lying! on the desk beside him, was busy counting a roll of Treasury rotes. He looked up as the first man said, "I would like to get this cheque cashed." As the cashier reached for the cheque, tbe first man stepped aside, and the second, suddenly withdrawing his band from his overcoat pocket, pressed the muzzle of a Colt revolver against the grating and said: "Push that pile of cash across, and be quick about it." ' " The cashier's right hand darted instinctively towards his own revolver. Quicker than thought the bandit fired, and the cashier dropped behind the counter with a mortal wound in his right lung. The other two bank employees reached for their respective revolvers before the smoke cleared away. They crouched behind a high desk, and one sent a shot across the counter which did nothing more than break a plateglass window. Without stopping to parley or fight it out, [he two bandits dashed out of the bank building. At the door were two other desperadoes, who were to have held the entrance against allcomers, while their comrades secured the cash.

A RANDOM VOTJ.ET. All four jumped on their horses and gal« loped down the main street at full speed. The two unhurt bank employees reached the front door just before they turned a corner, and sent half-a-dozen random shots after the fugitives with no better result than to wound a cowboy. < • Tbe bandits reached the open country before anything like organised pursuit" waa possible.. Colonel Cody, who reached New York on the Lucania last Saturday, was big-game hunting in Nebraska' with i some Englishmen who had been invited to his ranch*. A ! mounted messenger from Omaha brought him a telegram telling of the oatrage.two hours after its occurrence. ; U- Colonel Cody at once invited his guests k» join in a iami-limnt,,; and the party took;■ a" fast train for Cody, nearly 500 miles away. This morning two of the ; bandits were found by . Colonel Cody's party entrenched on. a hillside about twenty-five miles north-: west of Codv. They opened fire, and Co!oa;l Cody's horse is reported to have been shot under him. ' . The '_:■ robbers made their wav into the mountains. Colonel; Cody is in hofc: pursuit, and d«< clares ? that he will capture them dead oi alive, . ■•:/;:■ '