About midway of the distance stood a boy who had helped carry a dead man out during the day, and while out had secured a large pine rail which he had brought in with him.

He was holding this straight up in the air, as if at a "present arms." He seemed to have known from the first that the Raider would run that way.

Just as he came squarely under it, the boy dropped the rail like the bar of a toll gate.
It struck the Raider across the head, felled him as if by a shot, and his pursuers then beat him to death..