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lect his faculties. One of his eyes had been 

 rendered useless by a blow it had received, 

 and the other was nearly blinded by the blood 

 which flowed from a cut on his forehead ; but 

 as soon as he was able to distinguish his an- 

 tagonist he made for him with a rush. See- 

 ing him coming, the bully drew his revolver, 

 but before he could pull the trigger Cherry 

 was upon him, and before the others could in- 

 terfere, had they been so disposed, had killed 

 him with his own weapon. 



I happened to be present at a little tragedy 

 in which Cherry took part, which caused the 

 death of a famous horsethief and his partner, 

 and which well illustrated Cherry's coolness 

 and nerve. He had known years before in 

 Montana a man by the name of Murphy, who 

 at that time was acting as foreman for a large 

 cattle company, and afterward got mixed up 

 in some one of the numerous border frays 

 which were continually arising, and the other 

 side getting the upper hand, he was forced to 

 leave. While en route south he fell in with a 

 man by the name of Spalding, who had some 

 two hundred head of horses with him, which, 

 he assured Murphy, were all "good" stock, 

 and offered to give him an interest in them if 



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