Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-05-20
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SATURDAY, MAY 90, 1882


Jones, "where there is no law" Yer
bet yer" chimed in Thompson. claw
is the only thing that keeps us out of
everlasting chaos" eyes, indeed" said
a legal gentleman present. 1T is the
bulwark Of the Doo mans liberty, the
shield which the strong arm Of justice
throws over the weak, the solace and
the balsam Of the unfortunate and
wronged, the"
ooh, STOPPER" remarked the man with
one eye. IL won't have it that way.
Law is q boss invention for ~rascals Of all
grades. Give me Il country where there
is no law and take care Of myself every
time. Now, for instance, when / lived
in Ohio | got a dose Of law that | will
never forget. ! was in partnership with
q man named Butler, and one morning
we found our cashier missing with So, 600.
He had dragged the safe and put it out.
Well, ! started after him and caught
him in Chicago, where he was splurging
around on the money. / got him arrest
ed, and there was an examination.
Well, all the facts were brought out, and
the defense moved hat the case be dis
missed, rs the prosecution did not make
out a case in the name of the firm, and
that if there was a firm the copartner.
ship had not been shown by any evi.
dcnce before the court. To my aston.
isbment, tine court said the plea was ..
X, and dismissed the case. Before |
could realize what was up, the thief had
walked off. Well, / followed him to
st. Louis, and there l tackled him again,
] G n for my partner, and we made a
complete case, going for him in .hc
name of the Commonwealth and Smith
Butler & Co. Well, the lawyer for the
defense claimed that the money being
taken from a private drawer in the safe
was my money exclusively, and that my
partner had nothing to do with it; that
the case should lie prosecuted by me in-
dividually, end not by the firm. The
old "blocke" who sat on the bench
wiped his spectacles, grunted round a
while, and dismissed the case. AWAY
goes the mar again. Then / got another
hitch OIL him and tried to convict him OF
theft, but the court held that he should
be charged with embezzlement. Some
years after, l tackled him again. and
they let him 60. Statutes Of limii alton
you see. Well, l concluded to give il
up, and did.
But about four years afterward I was
down in Colorado and a man pointed to
another and said: That fellow has jus,
made a hundred thousand in a mining
swindle.' ! looked and it was my oil.
cashier. l followed him to the hotel
and nailed him in his room with tn,
money. Now / says, Billy, do yo,
recognize your old boss?" and of cours,
he did. Says l: Bill, l want that thre,
thousand you stole from me, with tn,
interest, and all legal and travelling ex
penses.'
".Ah, you dor says he; didn't tn
courts decide that
Course the courts says I, putting
six-shooter a foot long under his nose
This is the sort of legal document tina
I'm Sravelin' on now. This is the com
plant, warrant, indictment, Judge, jury
aad sentence, all combined, and the firm
Of Colt & Co., New Haven, are my at
torneys in the case. When they speas
they talk straight to the point Of yonI
mug, you bloody laiceay thief. This
jury Of six. Of which l am foreman, il
liable to be discharged at any moment
No technically or statutes of limitations
here, and a stay o. proceeding won't las
over four seconds. / want $4,000 te
square my bill, or I'll blow your blasted
brains OUT Well, he passed over tn.
money right away, and said he hoped
there'd be no hard feelings. Now
there's some Colorado law for you, ant
its the kind for me! Ell, boys" AND
the crowd, with one accord, ~concurret
In the cheapness and efficacy Of the plar
by which . man could carry his cour
on his hip. instead Of appealing to tn,
blind goddess in Chicago and st. Louis
salt Lake Tribune.