The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-05-13

without regular trial no matter
: how agreeable such proceeding
might be to the people at large.
SO ran the opinion expressed by
Judge Pilbaldo, whose IDEAS on such
snbjects were usually accepted with.
ont comment.
Nevertheless there was more than
one dissenter in the present instance
to whom it was by no means clear
that there could be any sonse OF
profit in thus boating about the
bush.
"Ef Antonio q goin ter be hung
Why don't we hang him 7"
This was the pertinent query OF
Jake Smith, the leader Of the opp)s
ing faction and his view of tho ques-
tion put it in 10 clear light that
the Judge had great difficulty in i'm.
pressing people with his conviction.
He said that things had gone in an
irregular way long enough and
here was q way to start the law ia
properly, aud give it q fair show.
Besides, it didu't make any kind OF
difference Antonio had shot Jem,
hadn't he I Well, then, what was the
use Of talking All the jury would
have to do was to return their verdict
lot guilty in the first degree. and
there you we're all comfortable,
IL was just the same thing in the
end-exactly.
IL tell yer" said the Judge, who
felt the weight OF his title, albeit the
same was altogether one of courtesy {;
Il tell yer there's nothin' like doin
II thing reg lar partikerlly when yer
know Just how it's comm out.
So tue judges argument, support
cd by his influence, and increasing
bias at San Sada in favor of more
civilized views, settled the matter
aud it was decided that Antonio
Gueldo should be tried before he
was hanged.
AS there was no place specially
arranged for such ceremonies, Judge
Pilb DIDO Hospitality offered the use
II his shed.
Here rough table and chair we're
placed for tho Judge, the other
necessary furniture, intended TO re-
present the dock, the stani, etc
hcing eked out with boxes from
'il's Bnrcsits grocery store.
ia C Smith looked on Mt these pre-
p,laLiuus Tor tiue with frowning
liscrntent aud then strollei down
he roal, turning iuto the lauo that
ed to Bmkcs.
When he reached the door Of the
hanty he leaned against the j,nb
,nd pJkcl lis nlksl he'll inSiie.
inning himself ia ~ eub wtii1e
way with lis creased fragment of u
mt. He had come there with the
attention of swing SIN ,tlil5 bl
T no sight within male him forget
it.
Blake's widow sat b ere ~ sho had
sat pretty much all tue time since
the murder, staring straight before
Ter, With her chin in her pslm. The
sunlight struck the foliage of the
red oak trees that grew bcf the
!oor and checkerel with tlickerel
brightness tha hJor aod cradle in
which Jem's body was sleeping.
There it was, Just as it had been
three days ago; could 1t be only
three days p inst as it had been
when she went out that morning to
look after the drying clothes aud left
him standing in the door by the
cradle, (how fond he was of the
bady) Just AZ it was when she heard
the crack of the crack OF the pistol.
and ran in with an awful sense of
suffocating fright jast the g, me as
she had found him lying upon the
cradle, dabbling it's white linen
with his blood, and the baby play
ling with his hair. She screamed
once, the first and last complaint
any one had heard her make then
she was quiet and helpful through
all when the men came and lifted
him up whom they laid him on the
rough bed in the other room when
they carried him to the grave, she
followed with the bafy in her arms.
Jake Smith was yirg to find the
link missing in his thoughts he
suited with ps:plexity-or some
htiug-and Blake,s widow looked up
without speaking. Jake nodded
pleasantly two or three times.
"Pooty clipper p askea he.
Blake.s widow smiled sadly bent
over the sleeping child aud smooth,
ed the clothes with '.uder touch.
"They re agoin ter try him in a
court, Jake went on, an l don't
believe
"Try who-Autonio ? She turned
to ward the burly figure in the door
with fash Of interest in her black
eyes.
YES The Judge is making court
out of his shed. I hope it I II turn
out all right but it seems like giving
that Mexican chance he oughtn't
to have"
"He can't get clear, can he = she
asked rocking the cradle gently and
petting the coverlet.
~ don't see how, but he's got
some kind of q law cuss TO speak for
him-a fellow that stopped here
dayor two ago on his way to Calves
n, and it makes me kind O. nerv-