The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-09
COME IN AND WARM
TWO OLD MEN ARE ACCUSED OF DE-
STROYING PROPERTY.

They Come Before Judge Hatton and Tel
Their Story--Took Broken Board and
Two or Three Old Shingles--Built
Fire and Told the Young Man to Com.
| in and Warm--Picked Up Coal Atoms
| the Rock Island Tracks--Was q Soldier
and Served My Country--win Nov,
Right Out of that House.
81 Just took a broken board about
1 three feet long and three or four shing-
| les and built fire and told the young
man to come in and warm said ole
John Preister in broken English as hs
| raised Up from the witness chair and
faced Judge Hatton in the police cour;
last evening.
John is quite an old man. He wore a
short sack coat that came just little
| below his waist and there was an i'm
mense patch across the rear of his
trousers that from the appearance OF
stitches John might have tackled there
with his own hands. He wore a good
strong pair of shoes and on the lapel
of his short coat was the modest button
Of the Grand Army OF the Republic.
John Priester and the man he called
his partner had been arrested on a
grave charge. 1t was for destroying a
building
| Jim Howard owns some property in
the southeast part of the city and John
PrieSter and his partner, another old
German, Solomon Nelson, moved into
N i'm N a hav Ot
possession agreed to pay him dollar
month. That is they calculated TO
pay that amount but up TO the time OF
their arrest they were not acquainted
with Mr.. Howard.
Jim had box barn or stabbed own
there and somebody kept pulling the
boards off which weakened the struc-
ture and when the blizzard came the
stable collapsed all in heap.
Mr.. Howard heard that the stable had
blown down and when the blizzard had
subsidized, but when the temperature
still lowered around zero. he sent his
son, modest young man, down to see
If anybody was burning his lumber that
had formerly been in the stable.
The young man found old man Prizes
ter in the house and complained of be-
ing cold when the old man opened the
door to answer his knock
'All right, young man, come in and
warm" said Mr.. Preister, and he went
out to the wrecked barn and brought
in a board and some shingles and built
fire to warm young Howard, never
dreaming that he was entertaining his
landlords son.
When Mr. Towards son came back
and related his experience it made Jim
hot and he got out a warrant and Lee
Cone went down and arrested the two
old men.
Judge McCandless came down from
the county attorneys office to prose
cute, and Judge Buckner defended the
old men
Young Howard was put on the stand
and told Of seeing the old man get the
boards. But he told it in a way that
indicated that he was an unwilling wit
ness. Some of the police reported that
young Howard told the old man that he
ought to burn the boards such a day as
that If he had no fuel. And had further
remarked that his father was able to
stand it anyhow. Judge Buckner ask
ed Mr.. Priester if young Howard had
not told him that, but the old man
shook his head and said no.
Then old man Priester gave his rea-
son for the affair. He said he and his
partner Nelson were very poor and that
they made some brushes and sold them
around town. They picked up their
fuel along the Rock Island railroad
where coal was being unloaded and the
old man said he could hardly have Sc
cured provisions If the Grand Army
had not helped him some. He told how
he had taken the board to warm the
young man and said that he had never
pulled board from that building.
When the old man had finished his
story Jim Howard put on his hat and
went home and Judge Hatton summed
Cni hn off
scribed in the statute had not been
clearly proven and Judge McCandless
admitted that it was not very clear.
When the old man was clear he ask
ed a reporter for the Eagle for a ''chaw
of tobaccer," and said: Yes, / served
my country in the Eighteenth Mo. regi-
ment and L will move out of that house
tomorrow. l am not a thief"
People competent to judge-with the
dual advantages of practical education
and wealth-win accept none but Price S
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Gard of Thanks.
To the asylum Mt. Olivet Commandry
No. II, X. I. and the Hall of Wichita
Chapter No SO, R. \. NJ. and Wichita
lodge No. 80, y. f. and a II, Sir
knights Companions and Brothers,
cannot ind words to express my heart
felt gratitude for the loving kindness
you have extended to a brother and fam
lily IN our bereavement and affection IN
time of need over the loss of our loving
daughter most in the prime of this life
Oh, how sad We feel. Oh, we miss her
so much, and others gone before her 20
prepare the way for others of this
household that will soon follow, We
know not when. BE We also ready.
Tor in such an hour as we think not the
Son of man cometh."
Oh. let me say, your love and sympa-
thy is only lent US in our affection for a
period of time if time and health per-
mits, If not yC%will be rewarded by the
God OF Heaven and earth, who does all
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there can be no evil Praise God from
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sick and binds UP the wounds OF the
afflicted. May God speed the on thy
way
Behold how good and how pleasant il
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upon the head that ran down upon the
beard, even Aaron'S beard, that went
down 10 the skirts Of his garments as
the dew of Herrnon, and as the dew
that descended upon the mountain o.
Zion, for there the Lord commanded
the blessing, even life for eveTmore. i
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my afflicrion most of the time when not
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