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3 revisions | Christian T. at Apr 03, 2020 02:51 PM | |
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151Cody (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." | 151 |