y, and started out after the Kid, who had passed all bounds in
impudence of late. In this posse were Hudgens and his brother, Johnny
Hudgens, Jim Watts, John Mosby, Jim Brent, J. P. Langston, Ed. Bonnell,
W. G. Dorsey, J. W. Bell, J. P. Eaker, Charles Kelly, and Jimmy Carlyle.
They bayed up the Kid and his gang in the Greathouse ranch, forty miles
from White Oaks, and laid siege, although the weather was bitterly cold
and the party had not supplies or blankets for a long stay. Hudgens
demanded the surrender of the Kid, and the latter said he could not be
taken alive. Hudgens then sent word for Billy Wilson to come out and
have a talk. The latter refused, but said he would talk with Jimmy
Carlyle, if the latter would come into the house. Carlyle, against the
advice of all, took off his pistol belt and stepped into the house. He
was kept there for hours. About two o'clock in the afternoon they heard
the window glass crash and saw Carlyle break through the window and
start to run. Several shots followed, and Carlyle fell dead, the bullets
that killed him cutting dust in the faces of Hudgens' men, as they lay
across the road from the house.

This murder was a nail in the Kid's coffin, for Carlyle was well liked
at White Oaks. By this time the toils began to tighten in all
directions. The United States Government had a detective, Azariah F.
Wild, in Lincoln county. Pat Garrett had now just been elected sheriff,
and was after the outlaws. Frank Stewart, a cattle detective, with a
party of several men, was also in from the Canadian country looking for
the Kid and his gang for thefts committed over to the east of Lincoln
county, across the lines of Texas and the Neutral Strip. The Kid at this
time wrote to Captain J. C. Lea, at Roswell, that if the officers would
leave him alone for a time, until he could get his stuff together, he
would pull up and leave the country, going to old Mexico, but that if he
was crowded by Garrett or any one else, he surely would start in and do
some more killing. This did not deter Garrett, who, with a posse made up
of Chambers, Barney Mason, Frank Stewart, Juan Roibal, Lee Halls, Jim
East, "Poker Tom," "Tenderfoot Bob," and "The Animal," with others, all
more or less game, or at least game enough to go as far as Fort Sumner,
at length rounded up the Kid, and took him, Billy Wilson, Tom Pickett
and Dave Rudabaugh; Garrett killing O'Folliard and Bowdre.

Pickett was left at Las Vegas, as there was n