yshal Ralph Siebert and there must have
n some bad blood between them. One
. Siebert was driving in a wagon with a
ghbour when they met Charley riding
seback with a rifle across his saddle. The
-y that Sheriff McCool, then head of the
ice in that county, told from his en-
ries was that as soon as Siebert saw
arley he jumped down from the wagon
{ tried to get away, but his clothes got
ight in a barbed wire fence and as he
ck there struggling to get through
arley rode up and deliberately shot him
.d. Charley’s version of it, as he told it
me, was that Siebert had let bang at him
j that he had shot Siebert accidentally
ing to his gun being in his left hand. He
da false right hand, very well done with
re and covered with a glove. (Siebert
der was in July, 1908, Phillips was
stured in summer of 1909).

He went by the name of Benton at this
re and was a great horseman. The same
sht he was across the bridge at Ashcroft
J he looked up Charley Rose in Cariboo
d stayed with him in hiding. As I say,
was a great horseman and could break in
y horse with his left hand. In Chilcotin
hung around between Meldrum and
ske creeks in order to’ see a young half-
sed girl that he was sweet on. He was
vays a devil after women and there isn’t
ralf-breed girl that can resist a white man
near-white man. After being there for
ne time he had some trouble with Charley
ss over his attentions to Charley's wife,
dhe moved up around Fish Lake. Charley
rrett in some way got on to his being
ere and reported it to- headquarters.

Constable Yolland, at 150 Mile, was in-
ucted to get him and if he needed help
9 call in Anderson”. He felt it was a case
r help so he called me into consultation.
made a plan for working down on him
om two sides which should have proved
‘ight, but instead of following it Yolland
ove up there with two white horses, as I
lieve to scare Benton over into my district.
o one could fail to know of Yolland’s
ming in that way long enough ahead to

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get clear away. Anyway, Benton left Fish
Lake and I found he had gone up to
Government Meadows and traded two good
horses from Joe Bouchie for two poor ones
and some rum.

I got six good men and had them sworn
in as specials. I put two of them to watch
on Telegraph Creek, two on Baker Creek,
‘and I took two men, Frank E. Aiken with
a rifle and Fred Curtis with a repeating
shot-gun, to where he had left the trail. I
had a .25-35 and my revolver. Benton had
a horse with a broken hoof so that it was
no trouble tracking him. I spent two
anxious hours in the moonlight trailing him.
We knew he would have no compunction
shooting any or all of us if he could get us.
We found him eventually and got the drop
on him, in a hollow where he had stopped
to rest his horses. He was somewhat sur-
prised because he had counted on getting
into the wilds of northern Chilcotin ahead
of any pursuit. “Lift that left hand good
and high”, I shouted, “higher still”.

Thad to keep him over a week in Quesnel
gaol waiting for a stage. The stage didn’t
go further than Soda Creek, so I had to
sleep with him there the first night out.
“Allow me to tell you that I take any
chance I can get”, he told me. I told him
that I took no chance; that I would take him
down and he could make up his mind to
that. The American authorities wanted him
sent down under heavy guard. Superin-
tendent Hussey told them the man who was
bringing him down was all the guard
needed. I felt quite proud when I heard
our old chief had said that. We only got
to 150-Mile the next night and I turned
him over to Yolland, who wanted to put a
heavy guard on him. I said, “I don’t care
what you do but I want a night’s sleep
tonight, and you be sure to turn him over
to me in the morning”. Yolland hired
another man to keep him company walking
around the gaol all night. I got him down
to the coast and turned him over. The
Washington authorities put him in irons

and with a guard of half a dozen offers

armed to the teeth. I had a good laugh at
them to myself.

In 1898 I had a big broncho which I
called “Mike”, after Dr. Callanan. He was
a fine horse and almost human. I picked up
a mongrel dog one time around 150-Mile
of the colour we call in the Shetland Islands
Murret, and he was of great use to me. If
I was tracking an Indian in the bush

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