The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-14

ingly he was detained till the station
master a. sent for.
That official, in all the majesty OF
gold-laced coat and tall hat, soon ar
rived, much annoyed at being disturb
ed at his evening meal.
Whats all this about?" he de.
manded sternly, as he came upon the
scene.
"HJ'hey want to make me pay the
fare all the way from London, and
I've only come from Lamborne," an
swered Boldon in a humble tone.
"Of course you must pay the whole
fare. There's a bylaw on purpose,
made and provided"
Mr.. Boldon mournfully shook his
head. "Oh, no, sir!" he said meekly,
II really can't do that"
"Youll have to go to the lookup,
then" rejoined the station-master,
roughly. you'd best pay up"
Mi. Boldon, only shook his head
again ard sighed heavily.
As the lawyer expected the official
was exasperated by his o bstinacy
and encouraged in his high-handed
manner by the meekness with which
he was confronted. None of the rail-
way people recognized in the shabbily
dressed, unshayed individual before
them the spruce gentleman who had
paid a poor mans fare a few days be.
fore.
.Bonnor, go for a constable"
said the statlon-master, with the air
OF an intlexible Judge awarding a term
OF twenty years penal servitude.
"Don'tdot that; Tllgiveyou my name
and address, Pm known in the place
that is, I'm quite respectable you
know"
"Oh, / dare say" returned the
station-master, with with true official
superciliousness.
There was an awful pause while the
porter was goneto fetch the constable.
"Don'tyou think, suggested Boldon,
almost timidly-''don't you think it
might be as well to telegraph to Lon
don for instructions?"
The station-master frowned.
"They couldn't complain of you in
that case, at any rate" pursued
Boldon.
The station-master hesitated.
"Ill wait in the waiting-rocm till
you get an answer" said Boldon, as
he led the way to that cheerful apart
ment.
The official darted a suspicious
glance at his prisoner. Still, the advice
was prudent and he acted uponit. In
half an hour the answer came back.
.aThe passenger without a ticket must
pay the farefrom London, or be eharg.
ed before the magistrates"
E & T,y,t 1o% ~ e>o kL1 49,, 800 .-..Jx.
got" said Boldon, when theresult was
announced to him. "If it is as you
say I'll go quietly or else pay"
They showed him the message.
"No, / really can pay all that mon
ey, youknow," said Bolden sadly, as
he read the telegram; and accordingly
he was marched off to thepollce office,
guarded by a policeman on the right
and by a constable in the imposing
uniform OF the Great Railway Com
pany on the left.
AS it vas Saturday night, nothing
could be done that day, and Mr.. Boil
don did not choose to disturb the Sab
bath rest of Mr.. Lionel Vim, his only
available friend, by asking him to bail
him out on Sunday.
On the Monday morning, however,
al early message was sent to Mr..
Vim and he promptly appeared and
bailed out the young lawyer, who was
heartily tired ofhis Incarceration. La
ter in the day the case came on before
the magistrates and Mr.. Boldon, at.
tended with the landlady OF theinn at
Lamborne and one of the shopkeepers
who were able and willing to prove
that he could not possibly have trav.
eled from agreaterd than Lam.
borne on the preceding Saturday night,
The charge was OF our dismissed,
one OF the magistrates a jolly old fel
low, named Bracebridge, remarkine
that Mr.. Boldon. who seemed to be 8
respectable solicitor, had been treated
~shanefully, and that if he stood il
Mr.. Boldon's place hewould be inclin
ed to let the Great Railway company
hear of the matter again.
Next day the Marlborough indie
pendent contained a long account O
the incredible and really scandalous
outrage to which one of the most
respected members OF the legal PROBES
sion in our town has been subiected;'
and it need hardly be said that, in
Gay or two, the course at which tn,
worthy magistrate had limited was
adopted. Mr.. Boldon brought his &C
ton against the railway company fol
false Imprisonment and malici,u.
prosecution.
AS everybody knows, Westborougf
is an assize town, and the case of Boil
don v. the Great Railway compan,
excited agood deal of public interest
Everybody wished to know how tn,
law stood on the question, for every
body had had occasion sometime o,
other to travel without a ticket.
the plaintiff, and nobly he performe,
his task. He pictured his client,
member OF an honorable profession, {
gentleman Of delicate and scnsltiv,
feelings, dragged by the ruthless hand
OF the police through the crowded
streets on Saturday night, exposed
to the rude gaze of the ieering mob
and shut up in q cold lonely cell 70
the greater part of two whole days
And all for what? Because this gen
tleman had the courage, the publ
spirit to resist an unreasonable ant
illegal impost. 1t was the interest O
every railway traveller-he might
therefore say OF every man woma,
and child in the three kingdoms-tha
the rights OF the traveller and the lib
erty Of the subject should be vindicat
ed in the person OF his client. an.
client does not care for damages, gen
tlemen,n said Mr.. BASTARD in conclu
sion. "That is not his object in comin
here. His object is to expose al
abuse, an illegal abuse gentlemen
which has been too long continued-tt
clear his own character of the igno
miny whichhas been cast upon TWIN
dictate the sacred principle OF the liber
ty OF free-born Englishman."