Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — A Texas Desperado Killed. [ARTICLE]

A Texas Desperado Killed.

A recent dispatch from Okmulgee, I. T., gives the following account of the killing of Bill Posey, a notorious desperado of Texas: Three years since Bill Posey, of Limestone County, Tex., of wealthy parentage, committed a number of crimes. Among other pleasantries he hung his brother-in-law in his own dooryard. He ran on in his wild career until twenty-nine indictments had been found against him in that State, when he was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary. He escaped from jail and fled to the Indian Territory. Subsequently he was arrested by Lee Hall, and served ou* twenty months of his time, and again escaped tp the Territory, where he has been scouting for fifteen months past, often visiting Okmulgee and Muskogee, and bidding defiance to the United States Marshals who sought to rearrest him for the SSOO reward offered by the State of Texas. A few weeks since the Governor of Texas made a requisition on the Creek authorities, through the United States Agent, for Posev. Chief Ward Coachman ordered Sun Thearpee, Captain of the Creek Light Horse, to take him, alive or dead, as he had sworn he never would be taken alive. This was no easy task, and thq result show's it was no idle boast of Posey. Friday lasi Poeev visited tins place to have a finger amputated, and left or home in the erenlUg. The Ctfptain followed his trail with two picked assfKtanfe, and came up with him on Polecat Creek, near the Arkansas River, and ordered him to surrender. Posey was armed with a sixteen-shooting Henry rifle and two revolvers. He informed the officer that he would never surrender, and drew down his rifle. A lucky shot broke fcii right arm, and it dropped by his side. Rrawmg a revolver with his left he fired two shots, when a charge of buckshot tore off his left shoulder, completely disabling him. He charged on the Light Horse at full speed, knocking the Captain and horse over the bluffs. Another charge of Httksbot struck Posey in Iheithigh, and Tns n&e was shot off, and still he refused ‘to surrender, tfll a.bullet struck his lower ja fa and mot up crashing' through his brain, and he fell dead from his horse. He lay where he, fell till the ne*t day, whet |M was bqried on Sunday last bv the citizens. Great credit is due the Creek authorities for ridding the of a terrible desperado. —Jenny Lind is fifty-one, and her beautiful little baby is three months old.