Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — A New Style of Hero. [ARTICLE]

A New Style of Hero.

St. Lonis Globe-Democrat. The hero of the hour in New Mexico now, the king lion of the Territorial menagerie; i« Patsey Garret, the slayer cf Billy the Kid. His name is in everybody’s mouth. The papers arc full of his exploits and his praises. The very children in the streets stop and honor him with a curious and admiring stare as he passes. I met him yesterday in Banta Fe, aud a mllder-looking. gent-ler-spoken fellow I never saw> He is about 27 years old, 6 feet sinehes tall, and of almost willowy slenderness, with the slight tendency to his build. His complexion,.naturally fair, is suntanned to a ruddy brown. His eyes are grayish.brown, and keen as aq eagle’s and his hair and.slight moustache are of. a light brown tint, scarcely deeper than golden. His voice is ss soft as a woman’s, and he rarely usesit to tel o himself. Ho spoke very kindly of the Kid, and having occasion, in reply to a question, to allude to the exploit which has made him famous, simply remarked: “He was taken the night of the 14th of this ®onth,” I asked him if the Kid had really-killedl as many men rs the papers “ nineteen to twenty-six. No, he answered, in his musisal, feminine voice, “be only killed eleven that! know of,” I thought one for every two years of his life was nearly enough. 1 Some hitch having occurred in regard to the reward Garrett expected to get from the Territorial authorities, tne people of all the cities und towns in theTerritoty have gone.to work Ito raise a subscsiptpu fot’Blm,’’and,' tep wegas alone basal ready made up apursd. of nearly $1,200 in gold. If other places do as much in proportion, the fund • F*. W ttpysangq. j