The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-18

% hours when messenger came IN
rom my friend, the surgeon general,
saying he had just been called on for an
important surgical case and asking If j
would not accompany him and admins
ter the an@sthetic. My California COM
rade and myself voted our new found
acquaintance most charming man and
a capital fellow generally, though after
ward remarked to myself that had
not as yet found out anything about
where he came from or who he was.
Busy for the next few days, l thought
but little more of this entertaining
stranger. About a week later, however,
1 dropped into The Palace, just to see
who was there, and the stranger, quiet
and uncommunicative as usual, was
watching the games, never standing
over ANY one table for more than two or
three minutes at time. From here
stepped into The Capital, and Bert, the
head man, not being busy, I began a
conversation with him. Presently the
we'll dressed stranger came in, and l
noticed Bert's eyes take on q rather de-
fant flash as he watched him pass to
the rear Of the room.
BERT who is that man9" l asked.
"Ive seen him about for some time
now, but he never seems to speak to any
one. He must be some easterner here
for the winter, isn't he?"
"Why, don't you know that fellow?"
was the quick response He knows
better than to speak to me. He's the
blank of blank who killed Jim Fallon
in Prescott five years ago. Why, you
remember his murder, don't you, gen
eral2"
emo; l don't recall it, Bert. That
was when / was in Montana, and
reckon the trial and all took place be-
fore my return"
"Well, it was the most cowardly muir
der ever knew, and if that duck had
his deserts he'd have stretched hemp fol
it long ago. You knew Fallon, of course,
who used to run bank in Tombstone,
and after the flush days there he moved
to Prescott?"
/ nodded assent, and he went ON
"This fellow, Jack Underhill, Thimblt
Jack, who was nothing but low down
tin horn anyway, got full one night
and raised such disturbance at Fal
Ions table that he finally got up ant
kicked him out Of the house.
"Underhill was furious over thit
method of election, and for several day.
went around threatening that he wa
going to get even with Fallon. Some o.
Jim's friends told, him he had better
look out for Thimble Jack, as he was ;
treacherous cuss and would probabl.
stab him in the back. But Fallon laugh
ed at them, declaring that Jack was to-
big coward to attack child, let alon,
| man.
$50 the matter run along for almos
week and nearly every one had for
gotten about it, when one night abou
10 O'Clock, as Fallon was standing b.
the bar talking to some friends, thi
cowardly dog shot him in the back with
out the slightest warning. In the con
fusion he managed to get away and hit
in the house Of frail woman. Talk o
lynching was so strong the next da
that he sneaked over to the sheriff s OF
flee and gave himself up. Fallon linger
ed along for three weeks before he died
"When the trial came, this fellow
family or some Of his friends, or som
one in the east, put up the money 70
him, and he had half dozen Of tn
best criminal lawyers in the southwes
defending him. For myself 1 alway
believed the jury was tampered with
too, for they only brought in verdic
of manslaughter and he simply got
sentence of five years, and what wit
; good time he's out now.
"I hope you haven't spoken to him
for no self respecting white man hk
you ever wants to speak to such COW
ardly dog as him"
! And so this was my entertainer of
few evenings before. Then it dawne
upon me why his face had always seen
ed familiar to me. AS territorial off
, cial I had often visited the penitentiar
at Yuma, and here had seen my frien
: of the Riviera, my friend the gamblel
General Edward S. Gill in New Yor
Recorder.