The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-17
nuRnER MnsI FOUL.

A bar-room murder has occurred in
Denver. 1t is not the first of its kind
that has taken place in that city of the
plains. There was time in the an
mails of that city, and not so very long
age, either, that hadan affair of this kind
occurred, and under precisely the same
circumstances, it would have speedily en-
titled the murderer to an introduction
to the limb of the cottonwood upon
the banks of the creek. From what
we can learn of the matter, CLEANED
from the Denver papers, it would seem
to us too that the murder was wholly
unjustiliable and uncalled for.
The unfortunate man who rejoiced
in the sobriquet Of Happy jack"
was maudlin drunkard. He was also
friendless. Therefore he was open to
all manner of insults and indignities
that another man more fortunately ysitua-
ted would not brook. Trout, a suggestive
name, was the bar-keeper who done
this man to death, and from the evil
dence in the matter he appears to have
gone to work about it with as much
nonchalance as though the blood he
was about to shed was that of dog.
No doubt this man Trout, or rather this
boy Trout-the papers take care to i'm
press us with the fact that he is a boy
had furnished him with the means to
get intoxicated, and then deliberately
"played him for a sucker" There is
limit to all human patience, as there
was limit to this MANS Happy
Jack'-disposition to take everything
Of an insulting nature. Probably for
the first time in his life, he evinced a
spark of manhood, and resented Trout's
personalities. The mere fact that
Happy jack" this drunken, friend
less nomad, of Colorado, was thought to
have had something in his hand at the
time that young Trout fired the fatal
shot, does not vindicate the conduct of
this young candidate for the triangle or
the cottonwood. He was probably well
aware of the fact that for n man in
Happy jacks" position in life to
possess pistol was something wholly
out of the line of probability. This
maudlin Sc Happy Jack" !" could have
been ''bounced " the saloon un-
doubtedly without any further trouble
or exertion on the part of the murderer,
other than to make a showing of his in
tention to do so. But no, this young
murderer had preconceived idea of
what he intended doing. There was
blood in his nostrils. He already
snuffed the aroma of it. His victim
was the victim Of rum, as well as the
Vaccinations of his enemy the bar
keeper. Nothing less would satisfy him,
and as he was getting on in years and
had not as yet killed his man, it was
about high time for him to show his
hand. So the deed was done. An in.
offensive, maudlin drunkard, yclept
Happy Jack,'' is hurled into eternity,
and his murderer, Trout, now under
arrest, will be the sensation of the
hour. He will receive and entertain
his friends in his jail He will have
bouquets showered upon him, and hi:
s'girls' will visit him, and the ministers
will also call upon him and go away
and sermonise about this Trout provided
he does not succeed in. getting bail
But for all this, there is that terrible
spot upon his hand that will not g out
damned spot"-the blood of his victim
"Happy Jack''-and that calls for ven
geance from the ground.