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Cody (Bufaflo Bill) and Captain
Jack Crawford, "The Poet Scout."
It was Crawford's duty to prepare
the blank cartriges with which
the crack-shot Cody blasted the
targets offered him. The night the
pair showed here, Crawford gave
the cartridge job to a property
man, thelling him to stop the end
of each shell with parafine. The
house employe believed a tallow
candle would do as well, so he
prodded candle grease into the
cartridges and places six of 'em
in each gun which Cody was to
use. The first shot melted the wax
and the sparks set off all the other
cartridges. Frank Helvey, then a
youngster, heard and saw the explosions,
rushed down a stairway
into the street, the story goes, and
declared that Bufallo Bill was
"massacreing the whole audience."