At the time they were at Ogallala, a noted character named "Fly Speck Bill." his face being well spotted with freckles that had the appearance of fly specks, had been apprehended and placed in the city jail. But the jail was a flimsy affair, and failed to hold him for long. A day or two later, as Coffee was leaving Sidney for the north on the stage, Bill was found to be one of the passengers. At Camp Clarke they separated, and Charlie did not see him again until the following year.

He had then just stolen John Durbin's horse at Cheyenne and was making his get-away. Here he obtained a good look at the man and sensed his identity, although he did not make himself known.

Sometime later, when in Cheyenne, Coffee met Billy Likens, the redoubtable man that run down Doc. Middleton about the same time, and Likens asked if he knew "Fly Speck Bill." Being assured, he asked Coffee if he would

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point him out, as he had reason to believe the horsethief was in town.

They went into the Tivola saloon, then on the corner west of the old Inter-Ocean hotel, and the man was sitting at one of the tables. Likens pressed a gun muzzle against the back of his neck and said : "Fly Speck Bill, you are my meat." The arrest proved a tame affair, for the man merely glanced at the officer, and threw up his hands, saying: "Oh, all right!"