The Blood Hound

                        The Making of a Bounty Hunter



   When Shane Williams was fourteen years old, his parents died from Small Pox. His older sister Lisa of four years comes home to look after him. She was a schoolteacher. Two years passed by them living their lives.              
    One day a man showed up looking for work. His name was Charles Drafts a drifter. They took him on he worked for them for four months before leaving one day. He took his pay owed him heading off.
    Shane went to town to get a few supplies. While in town, Shane stopped off at the local saloon to get a beer. He saw a friend of his there talking with him about half an hour.
    Charles Drafts came back finding Lisa there alone. He went about raping and murdering Lisa at his pleasure. He ran away thinking no one had seen him.
    Shane arrived back home shortly afterwards. A neighbor told him he saw that man that used to work for them. He was cutting through his fields. Shane went back into town to report his sister’s murder.
    Shane sold the family farm and land about fifty acres. Getting about half of what it was worth. Shane spent the next six months working with his gun and learning to shot. He also learned to hunt and track.
    The sheriff gave him his first job. He came to see Shane saying, “Shane I may have a lead on your sisters killer. There is a man who worked with Drafts. His name is
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Newsun, he is half Indian.”
    “Where can I found him sheriff?”
The sheriff looked at Shane saying, “He was last seen at the Rodale ranch.” The sheriff handed him a wanted poster that read. Newsun the Half Breed (Wanted: Dead or Alive. Reward $100).
    Shane went out to the Rodale ranch. Mister Rodale told him that the man matching Newsun recently rode out. Shane jumped on his horse heading after him.
    Shane caught up to him in the middle of the night. He sneaked up taking him by surprise. Newsun looked at Shane saying, “What do you want?”
    “I want to know where Charles Drafts is.” Newsun spit at Shane going for a knife in his boot. Shane drew his Army Colt shooting Newsun in the chest killing him.
    Shane stood there looking down at him. He had never killed a man before. He threw Newsun over his horse taking him back to town collecting the bounty.
    Shane then went on the hunt. He tracked down three more associates of Drafts. He found a telegram note on Newsun along with 46 dollars. The note said, Meet us in Leadville. Stop.
    Shane collected his bounty heading out to Leadville. There he found Drafts friends. They told him they had not seen him in a few months. He split out with there share of money he owed them.          
    They told Shane he has a half brother named Bob Rowtears. He might know where he is. They wanted both were for minor crimes. Though they wanted were alive Shane let, them live.
  Shane set out to find him. It took awhile he a drifter was. He one day found him in some little boom town in Arizona. He told Shane where he could find Charles. He asked for fifty dollars. Shane gladly paid him the money. Shane had thought to kill him. Though he guessed, there is no love lost between them.
    After two years of searching, Shane found Charles Drafts (The Terror of Tennessee). He was in a saloon in Kansas City. By this time, he had raped and murdered three women. He also had robbed seven banks killing five tellers.
    Charles has also killed a town marshal along with two deputy marshals.  Shane had a speech he played out in his head. It went something like this.
“You are the sorry cur who killed my sister. The sorry cocksucker who as seen his last day. Death is upon you
today. I Shane Williams pray you rot in Hell forever.”
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    However, what came out of his mouth. “Die you dirty cocksucker!” Drafts went for his gun getting it out of its holster. Shane was the quicker. He shot him in his cold black heart. There that day ended the rein of Charles Drafts (The Terror of Tennessee).
    Shane collected the bounty on him. After which he got a bottle of whisky drinking it. He decided immediately to become a full-time bounty hunter. Shane shred a tear after killing him. He sad was that he could not kill him again.
    The pay is good and he is good at it. Moreover, he got a taste for killing that tries to fill the hole in his heart. Everything he killed an outlaw he sees Drafts face. Over the next twelve years, Shane pulled in fourteen lesser bounties with four more high profile bounties.
    This is how he known became as The Blood Hound. He always gets his man tracking them down? Shane only takes the bounties at are wanted dead or alive. They always come in dead.
    Here are the four high profile bounties he pulled in. First, we will talk about David Terri (The Utah Kid). He started his life of crime at fourteen as a horse thief going into cattle rustling.
    He traveled down this path for a little over five years. Shane caught up with him on the open plains of Montana. A drunk in town heard where they were going. Shane brought him a bottle.
    Shane rode out getting directions from a few people in the town. He rode out most of that day into the night. In the morning, he raised early heading out. He found them as they were breaking camp.
    Shane caught them by surprise shooting down (The Utah Kid). He then turned on the two lackeys who begged for mercy. There was none to give. He shot them both down, as they were also wanted dead or alive.
    They were not worth as much as (The Utah Kid). Shane gathered them up taking them to the nearest decent size town. He collected his bounties adding to his fame.
    Another bounty he collected was Burt Penrose (The Beast). He wanted was for robbing several banks. They called him (The Beast) because he was a large hairy man.
    Shane carefully staked out a bank in Topeka for three months. Rumor as it he was going to rob the bank there.
Shane decided to lay a trap for him.
    Finally, (The Beast) struck going into the bank. Shane ran up to his horse waiting for him. He came out a couple minutes later ambling over to his horse.
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    Shane jumped up taking him by surprise blasting him down. He fell not quite dead. He ran over putting two more slugs in him. He tired him to his horse dragging him to the sheriff’s office collecting his bounty. The town held a celebration in his honor for ending his crime spree.
    Shane also collected the bounty on James (The Death Bringer) Barracks a train robber and killer. He wanted was for blowing up train tracks. Where he derailed the trains then robbed them. He would kill the crew and their guards. A few managed to survive to identify him.
    Shane caught up to him in Denver. He was soaking him self in a bathhouse. Shane entered into the bathhouse. Shane walked up to James firing two into his chest taking him out. Shane threw a sheet over him taking him to get his bounty.
    Shane’s last high profile bounty was Thomas (The Dammed) Candle. He wanted was for blowing up six black churches. One would say who cares. They were only coloreds.
    Candle had killed five white nuns who were working with them. Along with a well respected preacher who was trying to breach the gap between whites and blacks.
    Candle was one of the hardest for him to find. He had people helping him to hide. Shane learned he likes to smoke opium. Shane used all of his skills tracking him down to an opium den. Somewhere in a little, piss ant of a town in New Mexico.
    Shane went to the den paying the operator twenty dollars to make sure Thomas got a strong dose. He waited until he knew he would be high as a kite.
    Shane entered into the den shooting Thomas (The Dammed) Candle down where he lay. He died with a smile on his face. Shane dragged him out collecting his bounty. He is now open to see where life is going to take him. What new outlaws will come his way to collect his bounty on?
    Now to his lesser-known bounties he killed. The two lackeys with (The Utah Kid) were Frank the Leech and Billy the Tick. Then their came Joe the Rat, Derek Owens, Ted Knows, Michael the Giant, Joel the Ugly Ryan, then there was the Spam brothers, Tom, John and David. Lastly, he killed the Midnight gang of Jesse out of Kansas, Noel the Charmer, William the Large, and Tim the Slow.
    Shane coming out of the bank was from collecting his bounty when. Two men approached him. They looked to be decently tough each had a pistol at their side.
    One young was maybe twenty or so and scrawny with a thin mustache. He wore a bowler hat and fancy duds. The
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other man a bit older was about fifty on the husky side. He had a handle bar mustache.
    The older man held out a hand to stop Shane. The young man looked around as if keeping guard. “Sir you are Shane Williams, The Blood Hound, are you not?”
Shane sized the men up seeing they each had some skill with their guns. He eyed the older man saying, “Yeah, what is it to you?”
    “I or rather I should say we work for someone who is interested in hiring you. You have heard of the Pinkerton Agency no doubt. We are in need of your services. If you are interested please be at our Chicago office in one week.”
    “What in the hell do the Pinkertons want with me? I am a bounty hunter.”
    “I do not know why, I only know we were to relay the message to you. I know you will do the right thing. Good day to you mister Williams.”
    “Yeah have a good day to you two too.” Shane wondered what in the world the Pinkertons wanted from him. He decided he would go to see what they wanted.
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