The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-05-07
ANOTHER gsHFE'.
'Eiat. sS:as ;s sam Hfl.aneico .5sssR..e.
Decided.

'ItuchcrSon y. Snyder, read OIL .tuti z
I,ix. The other morning. i believe thi
is I'M assault aiti battery cast. isn't it
Welt gentlemen, what have YOU /" Il,
for yourselves:
Mr.. Van snyder. the defendant st"od uI
and said May it please the court, have
only administered to this reptile, the plain
tiff. The punishment due to 4 sWindler ans
a traitor.
Suindier your,clf..' roarctl GIutIlcr-
son, who had his arm in Il sling, and wa.
very much pasted up about the Uranium
Hes i coltI-bIoottcd assassin. Judge. that
Is what he Is.
DO YOU take this for the capital At sac
ramento - inquired his Honor, severely.
.sContinc yourselves 70 4 statement Of the
facts, or III know the reason why.
IF it please your Honor, said Van
!. Snyder, ''the facts are the~e: N The first
place, the plaintit there is Il sort Of cap
pcr-ontsitIc mall-tor stock broker
All he is, is he" said the court, cmln-
ol,sly, Willis the spectators began to groan
and hiss.
..It's a lie. your IloIiot'.' put IN Gl,tck-
erson, eagerly. i anta respectable, man.
your Honor.
And although, he aas been 4 rlcighhor
! Of mine for Years, continued Van snyder,
''Ie came to me one evening last fall, and
said he'd let me into new find up in
/ Lake county. Something dead surc-bang
mp
The vuld-bontIcl wretch. said The
roltrt.
said he hoped he might never stir. your
tiouor, if it wouldn't rul, twenty thousand
dollars to the ton. He sad could buy the
property for twenty-five Thousand dollars
from a company. divide the stock with him
and salt away trade dollars by the barrel. -"
Il didn't say barrett said keg" muir
INJURED the pastedup man.
''WclI. believed what he said, Your
Honor. and went III. ought to have
known better, ii i> true. but got kinder
! carried away with III" report of tile expert
who examined the properly.
cone Of tIr contingent commission
kind, sIie! the COURT in i muurnful voice,
! while the baiIiIt sighed and the clerk
shook his head rctrospcrtivciv.
''ExaGtly: | see Your Honor has been
there We'll the ,fJ>!,"t Of il all Ma that
. mortgagrd my homie and raised The mon
cv He didn't put i ecnt in. Your Honor
and decided to me, and We started the Dick
I'ttrpin Mining aud Milling Company.
Just the right name. too, said the mag
istratc, rctcctivclN.
Precisely: and after lr1d guaranteed
in all my best friends and relations oh III
that the shaft had been sailed. and that
there wasn't live dollars, worth of ore with
ii Ten miles Of the place
"Croppings must have given out, mr,r-
injured GluckerSon.
i0b-thc most coIh-boodc1 ~nindIr. the"
Tho regular ding. suggested the
judge.
.:GNarlIy, tnd when tried 20 hunt up
this wretch Gluckcr>on, whom ii seems had
stood in with the seller for eighty percent.
Of the purchase nOncy--"'Y twenty-five
thousand The court will please remember
why. he was u0,t cs' tuteit"s--r"ultIn't
be lovnt-al1tl vanished liI>c-liI>c'
Like the snowflake on llr river. su@-
.estcd one of the spectators. Wh" WAS
promptly fire out by tho door keeper.
. ANY way. he couldn't bc found, and
when advertised for information of him,
Vas travn9 III tIr I y8lE anor. ,n,5i:.,. lie
that he had for@ottcn to mention there was
Il bic pond on the property, alid that if
cared anything for fuck-shooting-
.sl'll bet fifty dollars c;nl kill more
ducks from sun up 10 sun down than any
man in the State, said the judge. walking
up lust then .ft,ot iitly-tivc down st the
draw bridge last sunday, and-horcvcr.
go on with the case.
well. your lIon0f. IL bc brief, WAS
cleaned out--tlat broke. with nothing LETT
but this internal wildcat proposition 10
show for my money. Of course, then.
had but one chance left.
New York;" said the court, With ail
in,lcsrrihabIc wink while The audience
smiled and nulIged uin another
"prctise1v; New ork, your Honor. St
/ hou.hi :: vidc-brimmed felt hat, sclYrt
vest, red tic, hait-po,nd quartz-am-@olc
watch claim, stuck on Ialt-;,-dozcn of thcs.
bio ,loIlar-sturc dilln0nds-in fact. th'
peculiar, New ! ork lniuc-holdcr 5 outfit
and starctl setting up champagne Il"
the couductp. all The Way oEc1--in fact
the usual Thing.
Disa9rceablc business. said thcjud%c
.sEXtrcmcly, your Honor: but | sup
rosc we've al rot 10 do il. some time 0
other. Well. put up Ut the G'j1>cy,
cau1Se: called on Linn kecn", tllned with
tot of Wall street fellow, al Delmnnlco's
and gave the waitci twenty every timc
Come high. Won knew. but il must b
:; done,
4 cot course, said the court but Ski
5 The details. a. its halt:-Mst twelve. an
Frank, seiluNdnrnrvcrlc keeps hot more Il';'
: half an hour. Mere the boys doing We
u over tllcrc:
e .Fir5t-l:lit.. Your Honor. closed OF
/ thc Dick l'urpin in less tllan L month +
three hundred and fifty thousand ,lolIar
and here comes the kernel Of tic Who
# matter. 'rI1S man tiltrk"rson lad hcal
4 of the sale. and when reached Frist
again Yesterday afternoon, hc actually M
!. me III the train and said that ought TO !
willing 10 :tliyy. with hinl-him. mi'
:. vol. Vow. lo" was ll1at for cheek
: :'>ud what did you say 4, said the ju
ficc.
II tli1n say anything, yotlr Honor
ilSt biiitd him i couple in the eye. n
y swept tlp the depot floor with him. :,
..IIc held ne under i ear aud offered Il
engineer twenty dollars TO start up the
at eomotive. put in the damaged man, ear
H. testify.
OF And. ll1c:i il!lgt.. the Old fhiet had I
ie mpu,Ienc,. to have nc arrested, : e"nclu
ed Van Snydti
=; I,llu decision ii iht court il. slid
il iu,lg,. 10 the plaintiff, ..fhat sou have
Ell biggest g:ll If neeiertl times. The case
II dismissed. and the defendant Is authoriz
10 take :notllcr hitE atf the pIaintitl' IT sol
future time Next c;tses-
II. And Gllekcr>on Went OUT, sve;rin. y
= ~ the l:,w Woudnzt prrlect him he'd sht
!. liz se>ailaHt down Oh sight. But he
since tonclu,IetI 10 call the thing sqnta
and - or 10 New YORK WIIsa : 'tifst-cl
properly If his OWN.
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