, 1889-09-19
AvERILL,s HALF BROTHER.
He Has Something to Say About the
Recent Lynching.

To the Editor of The Leader.
RAwLINs, Wyo., Sept. I6.-DEAR
SIR:-Seeing a piece in your paper from
a Rawlins correspondent dated Sept. II,
concerning the lynching of my beloved
brother, James Averill. l an thankful to
know that the fair and Magic City of the
West has n paper that does not belong
soul and heart to the murderers of my
dear little dead brother and that you have
proudly asserted your manhood as a man
by at least publishing things from a
humane correspondent Owing to the
idea had formed | thought the papers of
that place would not print anything that
did not uphold the l%ynchers. | have from
day to day read the insults imposed on
my dead brother and his family and
thought that | could not resent them in
any way owing to the prejudice of
many papers of Cheyenne and although
the intelligent public can never imagine
my feelings in regard to the matter | had
considered, or concluded to consider,
where such fcticious lies had come from
and perhaps that would be the proper
Course to pursue, but as a brother it is
very hard to shut my eyes
UT leuu u ueai ear 10 Sucn Things
when there are any chances
to write or speak in behalf of one who
was the dearest on earth to me, and who
has been cruelty murdered in cold blood
for nothing, unless it be for trying to pro-
tect a portion of Uncle Sans domain
from being unlawfullY m~onopolized by his
cold blOoded murderers, and because he
knew the law was made for good men and
that nothing but fools try to break it.
That he was a man, who though not with
out faults; that he always tried to do what
was upright to his fellow men, is plainly
proved by the sentiments of the good
community.
There is some dime novel fend in Chey-
enne who has been ridiculing the charac-
ter of James Averill. | don't refer to the
editors particularly, for there are, no
doubt, some of them who its either write
as they are told or no bread, and Judging
from some of the articles | have read if
they wanted to write u good character of a
good man they amt got the ability, owing
to perhaps early training and some of the
company they prefer at the present time
and the class they are now trying TO up
hold. But l amt a man that Judges
all by a few, nor do | feel any
malice towards any particular person in
your city, unless it be one whom | know
has wronged me. The parties whom this
fits can take it up. A guilty conscience
need no accuser, and it must be remem
bered that the same breath hat blows a
fire to life can blow 1t out again and a
public tool amt to be considered among
men as one of them, and the day has
gone by when a victim of dime novel lit
erature Is noticed among men OF SOUND
thinking mind. The man who Is doing
all this ridlculing is, ho doubt, similar to
the one who shot his own horse out on
the road to try to create public sympathy,
or a man with a ten cent head and a
$40, 900 education, and he has never been
nearer to where brave men was needed
than the imagination of a coward and a
dime novel fend could draw him, and |
will venture to say that he would be
afraid of a good man though he was dead,
and that he would even now be afraid to
camp one night in Jim Averill's house
though he could be surrounded by the six
men whom he Is now upholding and each
one of them furnished with a
g~attling gun of the latest model. Why
don't he let up or be a man and come out
and sign his name? Nothing but a cow
ard will impose insults on both the dead
and living and not give them a chance to
defend themselves. Could that dime
novel cur look one of Jim Averills
friends fair in the eyes, let alone express
his sentiments to one of them? Does
he want to meet one of them? Is there
any satisfaction that the dirty coward
wants2 lexpect he is waiting to get a
chance to help lynch some one so as to
satisfy his dime novel lust. Whenever
he does meet g; relation of James Averill
he will meet L man whose hands amt
red with the blood of an innocent fellow
man and a man who like James Averill is
always ready to share his dollars with
those in trouble and never stoop so low as
to uphold murderers in this beautiful
land of the free, where the law is made
by the people and for the people.
Now those whom this fits can fight
beck and will find a mar who amt afraid
to sign his name to the public. Respect
fully, r. w. CAHLL,
Half brother of James Averill.