The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-02
College Mates Meet

During the hight Of the silver excitement in
Nevada twenty-five years ago. says the Chicago
/ Tribune q man named Dexter went into a
saloon near the International hotel, in Virginia
City, and. addressing the bartender and at the
same time fiourishing a murderous- looking
knife, said:
81 am dying for drink, and l am out of
money. In other words, want a double bar
relied cocktail speedily, and want you to hang
itup;"
politely responded the bartender
Then you don't hang up accounts for poor
wayfarersg'
I'VE don't trust at all"
We'll, now, my pretty model of frontier i'm
pertinence, guess you don't know who am
Seems To me your face is familiar to me-
Il don't care il you are the governor of the
territory, you can't have snifter until you put
But you don't know mey'
II don't want to know you il you have no
COIN III you are unprepared to settle for the
matutinal you called for you will have TO it'll
late your thorax elsewhere"
Where were you educated, professor
AT Browns University, Judge
so was I. By George, ana you we're of the
class of 50. l knew had seen you before. I
was born in Providence. You must remember
me. NY name is Dexter.
Yes, remember you
Now, let's have drink"
No; l never indulge at other peoples ex-
pense''
Cool, | admire you. And. as you will not
crook the elbow with me. I will drink with
you"
mo; it's against the rules of this establish
ment -
DO you mean to say am no gentleman?'
Il mean to say that you get nothing TO
drink here unless you pay for it,
That settles it. Now, am going to pin you
to the wall with this knife
And, simu taueously, he hurled his big knife
at the bartender with such violence that it
went clean through his victim and actually
pinned him to the wa !, killing him Instantly
He then took fun glass of liquor, pulled the
bloody knife out of the bartenders body and
walked leisurely out of the front door.
An old woman who had been scrubbing the
moor at once gave an alarm and the murderer
was quickly arrested. An hour afterward a lot
of men got to gether, purchased a piece of rope,
and proceeded toward Dexter's place of i'm
prisonment but were overtaken by a large
number Of Law and Order men with Lucius
Hermann 0ately deceased in San Francisco at
their head. VINO compelled the vigilantes to
permit the law to take its course.
The body of Law and Order men saw to it
that the trial should take place at once, of
course, and its members stood guard over the
murderer and escorted him through the streets
by turnsi
One day the vi9ilantes attempted to break
into the hollow square, in the center of which
was the prisoner, on one side of whom was
Lucius Herman and on the other Critten-
don Thornton. After the escort had succeeded
in resisting the would be- lvnchers the prisoner
trembling from head to foot looked up at Mr.
Herman and said:
DO you know, sir, thought my time had
Gomez
well, it was a close call. 1t wasa bad crowd,
| sir"
You bet it was There were a number of men
| in that crowd who would have thought nothing
| of killing me in cold blood"
And few DAYS later they did kill him and in
cold blood, for he was found guilty and promptly
| executed.