COWBOY BARONET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

COWBOY BARONET.

EXPLOITS AS HOUGH RIDER. BIG GAME HUNTER, AND FIGHTER. American papers are still strangely full of the career of Sir Genille Cave-Brown-Cave, the so-called "missing baronet." He had been searched for long and diligently, and advertised throughout the country, but the missing baronet, to quote his own words, was very congenially engaged as a cowtoy in the Wild West of America, and was not in a particular hurry to take up either his title, or estate, Stretton Hall, Leicestershire. Sir Genille is, according to one correspondent, a strong, hardy, tine young man, well-built and athletic, and his skin is tanned by exposure in four Western States. " Gene" Cave, as he is called, is well known, and his prowess- in Western sports, such as " bronco busting," is undisputed. To interviewers the missing baronet has been giving accounts of his romantic life. According to his account he ran away from home as a boy and entered the navy, which lie quickly abandoned for the army, entering the 13th Hussars. His father disowned him. After an escapade, which brought reproof and reduction to the ranks from Captain Baden-Powell, of Mafeking fame, Sir Genille Cave volunteered for foreign service, and went to India, where he sawservice in the Afghan campaign and received a medal. He purchased his discharge and went to the Mysore goldfields. Then he was heard of in Burma, chasing Dacoits, and his story might be taken from Kipling. A company of his regiment surprised Ram Ali and his men at night, and after a fierce combat the English were victorious, but not one escaped injury or death. All the Dacoits were left dead on the field. For this young Cave received mention in despatches. A DAKE-DEVIL ENGLISHMAN. After a good holiday in London young Cave says he 'went to Africa and shot big game and then to India to kill tigers. A little later he found himself cowpunehing in Tucson, Arizona. Judged from his own accounts he was a reckless, dare-devil young Englishman, always in scrapes, and always getting out of them. Then he got homesick, but he says that on returning to Eng- ' land not even his mother would see him. From England Cave went on an Arctic ex- j pedition. When the American war I started Cave took service as a muleskinner \ in a pack train and went to Puerto Rico, but soon got tired, there being no fighting, and off he went to Europe. He was in the emptor of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company as a quartermaster when the Chinese Boxer outbreak occurred, and he joined the naval Brigade at Tientsin. He was above a magazine that exploded, and was sent to hospital for a month or two. The next heard of him was when he was back at his old ranch near Tucson, Arizona, where he had an encounter with a rival for a sweetheart. For several years Cave knocked around the Western States, from Oklahoma to Utah, taking part in rough-riding and steerroping contests and other Wild West exhibitions. He has several, records to his credit. "Well," he said to the reporters at Denver, " I suppose I will get married and be a Justice of the Peace and a -Lieutenant, and sit in justice on poachers, and go to church on Sunday, but I know a place in Arizona that will find me whenever I .get tired." ' ' ■ \