The Red Cloud chief., 1881-01-27

awake up. Ramseyr' called out Q
companion Of mine one morning at an
early hour; wake up or you will miss
the iynchiny." / had gone TO bed At
an early hour. tired and sleepy, and had
heard nothing Of the murder which had
been committed during the night
"Hullo! Jim. il that you?" said /.
"When does the thing take placer"
"Preity quick now" answered my
friend.
So hurriedly DOMINIC my clothes /
sauntered out and found my "bunky"
waiting AT the door of the shanty. We
walked up street a short distance, and
finding acrowd Of rough looking miners
around the door of a gambling hell. we
pushed through and entered the saloon.
where we found a Coroner's jury i'm
paneled and about TO begin their in
vestigat;on. Two tables. used for deal
ing faro had been pushed together. and
on them was stretched the dead body OF
a police officer. had known him we'll.
He was a splendid specimen of man.
hood. fully six feet six inches in height.
n built in proportion. q quiet, inof-
fensive citizen, but 4 thoroughly good
officer. On the top Of the body lay a
coil of half-inch rope, neatly rolled up.
with a hangman's moose AT one end. As
we entered the Coroner called the first
witness, who. having been sworn, stated
that ION the evening previous he had
been in the gambling saloon OF jim
Beggs, where two fellows were playing
cards. During the game they quar-
relied about something. and both got up
from the table and entered the bar
room. where they both drank, and
again began To wrangle about the bets.
They made considerable noise, and in
the midst of it the officer came in and
quietly said: Boys. less noise; this must
be stopped He had no sooner said
this than one of the gamblers jerked out
his gun and shot the officer through
the heart" The witness had proceed
ed thus far. when a strapping big fell
low, clad in a red flannel shirt and with
pantaloOns stuck into his bootlegs. a
broad-brimmcd hat half hiding his dark
eyes, quietly walked up to the dead
body. and taking hold of the coil of
rope. said: boys. that's enough: come
on" pushing his way out through the
crowd, followed by fifteen or twenty of
his companions. Without a word they
walked down to the COOLER" where
the prisoner had been incarcerated, and
coming up to the six men on guard.
demanded the keys. They told them
that the keys were not in their posses
sion.
"Hold up your hands. then" cried
Al IL 49, ,a-
The guards held up their hands and
quietly submitted to the examination.
The lynchers. finding that the keys
were not in their possession, went TO a
woodpile, and, picking up an Ak speed
lily demolished the door. The leader
then entered the room, and in a few
minutes came out with n end of the
rope over his shoulder, and at the other
end was the murderer. the moose tightly
around his neck. | had taken my stand
on the opposite side of the street, and
could plainly see the poor devil as he
came out. He was richly clad, a large
diamond stud glistened on his shirt
front, on the little finger of his
left hand vas a large solitaire.
and a heavy gold watch chain
dangled from his vest pocket. His
c%ountenance did not betoken fear; in
fact, to look at the man one would
have thought the whole performance
was but a joke. After reaching the
street the crowd seized hold of the rope
and led the victim down to an old
building. where a beam jutted over the
sidewalk. When they reached this
point one of the number climbed out
over the beam, and the end of the rope
was thrown to him. After pulling the
slack up he slowly let it down
leaned his elbows down on the
beam, and took a deliberate look at the
crowd below. The leader of the COM
mittee then approached the gambler
and said: "Well, Jim. yer times short;
want to say anything?"
Jim replied. and said: Now. look
here, can't you jist rs well put a few
bullets through me: what's the differ
ence? I've got $1,000 in my pockets,
and you can divide the whole thing
among you if you don't hang. Will
you do it,"
mot by blamed sight," said the
leader. "You murdereda good man,
and you've got to swing for it."
WELL" said Jim. .,go on; l suppose
l must swing; this is the third man I've
put away. so | suppose my times up"
He had no o said the words than
the rope was quickly pulled up. and
Jim was dangling in ahOrrible manner.
His hands not being tied. he reached
up over his head and grasped the rope,
and thus released the strangulation.
THAT won't do, Jim," cried the
leader, and they let the dangling vic
tim down again and speedily tied his
hands behind him, and again elevated
him, where he hume for nearly an hour.
After it was ascertained that their vic
tim was dead, the committee" sent
for a photographer, and had a photo
graph taken of the entire gang" In
the foreground the committee could be
'een-every face easily recognized
while just behind them was the dang
ling dead man, his diamonds and jewell
ry shining in the early morning sun,
and above him sat the assistant hang
man, evidently proud of his station.
The entire proceedings were as quiet as
could possibly be; not a word or shout
could be heard. The companion of the
murderer was given six hours time to
get out of town, and was met some two
miles away by some of his trends, who
asked him where he was going.
"Oh. the boys gave me six hours to
get out of town." said he, land l am
now five hours ahead of time"
This was my first initiation into West
ern life.-PltSJurgh Post.
Odd Savings Of Children.