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ell's rifle was leaning against a buffalo's car- 

 cass a few yards from him. He made a step 

 toward it, when Burgess told him to stop or he 

 would shoot. Howell then turned back and 

 said, "All right, but you would never have got 

 me if I had seen you sooner." He was found 

 surrounded by the bodies of seven bison freshly 

 killed, and, to illustrate more fully the wanton 

 nature of the man, of the eight scalps brought 

 in to the post, six were cows and one of the 

 others was a yearling calf. 



His case went through the same course as 

 the others, and finally toward the last of April 

 he was turned loose, with orders to quit the 

 Park and never return. He, however, is cast 

 in a different mold from some of the previous 

 captures, and some time in July he reappeared 

 with the most brazen and shameless effrontery. 

 He was reincarcerated, tried, and sentenced 

 for disobedience of the order of expulsion. 

 His sentence was thirty days in jail and fifty 

 dollars fine, and this he now has under appeal. 

 Insufificient as is Howell's punishment, his 

 crime has been of more service to the Park 

 than any other event in its history ; it created 

 the greatest interest throughout the country, 

 and led to the passage of the Park Protection 



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