The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-08-21
FEARFUL RErRlBUTION.
The Result OF a Gamblers Folly
He Hounds Nan for Sl.50 and
Gets His Head Pounded tOa
Jelly.
4 Scene at the Railroad Depot

Friday morning, between . and q
O'Clock. closed clrIiage stopped before one
f tie si.ded dens on Shawnee street, where
nlen arr wont TO congTega,e and fight the
Tiger and from it was horne the senseless
forla Of he proprietor, Col. {. X. Jennison,
his head .i.hily bound with handkerchief
and his clothing covered with the blood,
which tgicklei down from a face mangled
almost beyond recognition. The stupihed
| ateuaan,s Of the house knew Tot what had
| befallen the unfortunate man. but the reason
| of his being il such Z condition became
known soon afterwards. IL seems that on
| Thursday evening man by the name OF
Manning an employee on the Chicago 4
| Rock Island road, visited the establishment
Of yennisan, and az was his Custom sat at the
caId table I'LL his money was all gone, and
be left with n0.hing to show for the nights
work Int empty. pocke!s and feyerish
brain.
After seeing some sky or seventy dollars,
| the amount OF over months wages dissp-
pear in tie insatia;e NAV of the tiger, Man
| ming stguiiisd his inability or unwillingness
to play ANY more, and an aocoun: Of stock
was taken to see how both parties stood.
When he chips were counted out, it was
faHnd ilat Manning wac in debt 10 the es-
t8bli-Amcut to tie amount Of one
dollar end hall beyond his pile, and this
balance JCnni=5n demanded. Manning re-
piled That being 'dead broke" he could not
pew the ,riiiing indebtedness, but il Jennison
would come d1wn to the depot he would get
it for him. This did not seem 10 be satis-
factory to the enraged proprietor, and after
sonIe pretty lively talk Manning left for the
depot, tie time for his train to start ont for
Chicago having nearly arrived.
After Tie lapse of some fifteen minutes or
more Jcnnison concluded 20 follow the man
and make him square accounts AZ he had
agreed 10 do. He walked rapidly down
Nam s'-,et, crossed TO Tie !evee, ard ap-
prchcn6iag some trouble threw off
his .or "a NcCryslaFs saloon,
and remarkinG that ''he had
a small debt 90 collec;," crossed over to the
depa, where he me. Manning. Here both
parties calersl one Of the front cars OF the
waiting train. Manning having borrowed
the dollar anil bali Of the conductor, |
handed /, TO Jouuj5on with these words: |
''Eo. saur time past have visited your es-
aud spent every dollar Of my
hard-.asEol wages. aud row, after swim
ding ne out 81 over seventy dollars, you,
like the dog ihsl Won are, hound me around
the g,ree,s lor tie pallry sum Of one dollar
IN! fifty cents jenr;soa re;or.ed to this
speech in most abnsire language, bat be-
fore ie iaishoi lis talk powerful
blow llam the iisi OF hi4 victim laid HIM
pro=,sale IA Ia. aisle Manning then jump
pei upon ,Teanisoa ana ianmed his face in
a fu5aihle slanmer with his boot hesl and
then picking lim up Modify, ihrew him
.roa tha cnr sleps ON to the dcgo: platform,
r=tsz ,'.e train started out.
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