Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — A Pathetie Soene. [ARTICLE]

A Pathetie Soene.

"The most pathetio scene I ever witnessed,” says a Texan, “was a third of a century ago, but it is as plain to my eyes to-day as it was then. We had been bothered by horse thieves down on the frontier, and you know what that means in a wild country. A crowd of us started out after the sooundrels, and just before we reached the Rio Grande we ?aw two horsemen off to the left, who acted suspiciously. After them we went, and it was a pretty race for awhile till they disappeared behind a clump of trees. We had shot to stop them, and when we got in sight again we found that one horse had been shot, and they had deserted him, while both were riding the other. They were evidently Mexicans —a man and a boy—and the man showed fight, turning and firing at us, finally hitting our Deputy Sheriff. We gained on them rapidly, and presently a welldirected fire sent them all in a heap. “When we reached them the ‘boy’ was kneeling in front of the dying Mexican, sobbing and moaning as If her heart would break, while her hair, which had fallen off from her cap, fell below her waist. It was a oase of elopement, and they had taken us for her father’s servants, while we had been equally stupid and had taken them for horse thieves. When he began to gasp she drew a little pearl-h ndled revolver, and before any one oould think of stopping her, placed the muzzle under her ear and fell into his arms, a corpse. No, we never heard wi:o they were. We buried them and went alter the horse thieves."