A QUICK SHOT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9756, 22 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

A QUICK SHOT.

" Hay« yoa any idea how fast & man ooald; i shoot a pistol in the border dayis ?"»wid J.f W. Delaney, a Mountain ranchmen. " A man who couldn't poll a trigger io fast that yoa couldn't distinguish between the successive shots was slow. When they emptied i their gdns it sodnded like one long report,. And pall! Why, rv«,»eeu men that coald kill yoa before yoa coald ■' shoot if yoa had a gun levelled at then. • Fact. Take the time .when Doo .Hamilton, the^ notorious bad man^f Colorado, killed Sheriff Harrity in Deader. Hamilton had been wanted for several killings and was dead shy. When he turned a ooraer he'd walk away round near the edge of the pavement. Afraid somebody woold get the drop on him if he turned too sharp, ' yoa know. One day he wob in a harry, however, aad raa aroand the corner, and looked Bquare into a Winchester held byHarrity. . "Weil, Doo, I've got you," says Harrity n' 'f ' You've got too strong a hand, Harrity/ " and I can't call you," Bays Hamilton, * taking it cool and easy as yoa ploase. " "Yes, fall house, Doc; guess you better ■ travel on ia front."

" Hamilton was standing with his umbrella on his hip, leaning on it. He looked 4 " the. sheriff aqaaro "in the eyes. Mind yoa, - the rifle wasn't over four feet from him and levelled straight "foir his head. Jußt as Doc started to move a runaway horse r cam© down the street^ Involuntarily . Harrity glanced in that 'direction. Doc saw his eyes waver for an instant, pulled hiß gnn — you Bee he had his haud on his ; hip— and shot Harrity stono. dead before •'' he could pull the trigger of his rifU."