The Osceola times., 1883-08-25
A POINT WE'LL TAKEN.
How tho Grip OF Lynching Crowd Was
Loosened from Its Victim.

fooseheu sittihi.
Texas sifings.
The latest lynch;ng episode which has
come to our ears, occurred recently
out on the scientific frontier of Texas.
Kosciusko Dalrymple was a hard char.
acter, with a reputation as big as court
house, but not so symmetrical, perhaps,
and at times he was looked upon with
longing, avaricious eyes by the vigilantes.
One day they nabbed him under suspio-
ious circumstances, and uttering with one
voice, "Now is the accepted time" hur-
ried him cut of town to neighboring
grove for the purpose of helping him ov-
er the gravelly bed of the shining river
of light. On this involuntary trip toward
eternity, Kosky earnestly and eagerly
protested his innocence of the express
crime charged in the rude Indictment,
and when the party arrived at the grove
and took breathing SPELL Kosky got his
second wind and commenced TO harangue
the multitude with all the vehemence Of
Mark Anthony over the corpse of Caesar,
if not with that distinguished Romans
eloquence and address:
"Gentlemen," he said, "I'm hard cit
izen."
"The point is well taken," said the
chairman of the committee, "but tell us
something new."
"Yes, Pm tough. You know all about
me, / suppose know my record, and
have got me down middlin fine ?"
1--WE are on to you, Kosky, this time
for fact"
Eyes, gentlemen, you've got me at II
disadvantage. I'm a bad man from away
back, but just want to remove one stain
from my reputation. ! want to say Just
one word before I'm swung up, and it
isn't that Pm a gcin to glory and to play
on an organette. 1t isn't one last word
to my poor old mother, for she has been
dead these twenty years; God bless her.
II isn't to confess and tell the young men
to let whisky alone and never learn the
difference between the nine spot and the
lady card. No, gentlemen, none of these
things agitate me now at this supreme
moment of my life. But what want to
know, gentlemen, is this They say
stole Gabe Runnell's horse"
That's the charge, Kosky," said the
chairman.
"That's what you are going to do for
me now, suppose T' ..
"That's about hit"
"All right, gentlemen. Do any of you
who have known me off and on for four
or five years believe l don't know good
horse from mustang, from broncho,
from scrub colt with the glanders, an
omery, watch-eyed, sweenied, poll-eyil
animile with his shoulder knocked down
and thrushes in all four feet, name
reached with jack knife and saddle
gals as big as platter ?"
"You always was good Judge of a
horse, Kosky." -.
II was?"
"Yes III say that much for you"
"Well, that's all i got to say, gentle
men. Now, if ] look like man who
would, steal any of Gabe Runnell's stock
when there was plenty of good horses
not forty rods away if look that mean
an onery, an low down, an insigniti-
cant, wopplejawed an freckled, why,
gentlemen, it was high time ! was hung
high. Go on with the matinee; Pve had
my say. If I'm that low down in the
scale of humanity, why pull me up to
glory, and let me die like chicken
thief"
The committee looked at each other
and considered. The proof against kosky
was by no means complete, but enough
to hang him Oh general principles. But
his rude logic had somewhat shaken their
determination. At last the chairman
said (;
"Kosky, I've got some mighty fine
blooded horses on my ranch"
"You have that" replied Koskv.
"And |, too" chimed in another.
Correct, you are said Kosky.
"Kosky, we are afraid of you" said the
chairman.
g; know it," said Kosky, "but if you'll
let up on me, III put nine states between
me an your horses in less'n forty-eight
hours. Fact, gentlemen, your horses are
temptation, but if you say the word,
I'm off an you can go right on improving
your stock"
The chairman ordered the rope thrown
off Kosky's neck, and covering him with
his Winchester rifle, said, laconically:
Skip"
And Kosky was off like the wind.