The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-19
LEM TWEEDYS TAKING OFF.
WOULD HAVE BEEN HANGED ANY
WAY, BUT A CAT FASTENED 1T.
He Kicked the Cat, and the Cat
Caused His Horse to Bolt as Car
ibOu Brown Came on the Scene at
Critical Moment.

Caused His Horse TO Bolt as Car
Critical Moment.
From the New York Sun.
They was a hard lot. them Tweedy
boys" said the man from the southwest.
They're all killed now but one, and they
| say he's reformed; guess that's the rea-
son. Say, did ever tell you how the tom
cat got Lem Tweedy hung down in Tue
son? guess he'd been hung sooner or la
ter anyhow, but the tomcat, sure, was at
the bottom of it as it happened.
They belonged over in Globe, the
| Tweedys did. but Globe wasn't big enough
| they moved, the boys did-between days.
| Lem Tweedy he drifted over to Phoenix.
That was before tn railroad come in there
| and after they got right well acquainted
with him in Phoenix they jagged him.
NO, he hadn't done nothin'; that was
the trouble. If he had they'd hung him.
but he wouldn't give 'em no provocation'
You can't hang man for dom nothin',
and they got tired of livin on tn town,
so they jagged him as a moral example to
tn community, along with the greasers
and Chinks and the rest of tn trash out
in tn county Jail.
Wen, that didn't do no good. They
sent him out on tn road with tn chain
gang to work, but Lem he Just went over
to a mesquite bush an layed down in tn
| lacked him up about ii, but he lowed it
| We're his repertation that he never had
| done no work, an he wasn't goin' to start
in at that junction workln for tn county
| for his board and lodgin'. He said tn
| county had took it on themselves to feed
gang for fear of demoraiizin' the greasers
| an hoboes, an put i'm on bread and water
| al tn jail. But they didn't have no soli-
| tary connnement place in tn Jail then, an
| Lem he got hold of some old shippin' tags
| or somethin' outn tn office, an a blue an
red pencil somewhere, an painted him up
lot of monte cards so between whites he
won all tn tobacco an everything else
| tn greasers an tn Cinnamon had, throw
in tn three cards for EN-.
" Bout that time two greasers killed a
man out on tn edge of town, an he bein'
| a right popular fellow the word was give
lynch 'em. Course tn Warden he heard
of it, an he figured it I'D be a good time
| to get rid of Lem. TIL Warden didn't
! care particular about havin' i'm hung but
he told Lem tn boys was thinkn' about
| ALFRED serious that they had calculated
| 1t was a pretty good time to get rid of
| an circumference on the community along
| with tn greasers 1t come so near sound
| ing plausible that Lem he believed it, an
when the Warden said he'd better take
| freight out Of town. Lem thanked him
an said he guessed he would. You see
! he knowed he'd been the cause of solicit
| tude to the law-abidin' element of tn
! community, an he took the Warden's
| hint.
"Th' Warden give him a small canteen
| to carry him across the desert, for there
wernt no place for i'm to strike nearer
n Tucson. When he pulled his stakes e
managed to steal tn day keepers gun,
| of an outfit for the ella desert in sum-
mer, an when Lem got out to the last
| water on the edge of town, e just lays
| down in an alfalfa field to think it over
| He knowed If he got out on tn sand in
the day time he'd dry up like rasin, an
he wern't much given to walkin' anyhow
1 IN n n oil I'd 4 L..
was thinkin' serious whether he'd go out
and risk gettin' desSicated on tn desert
or go back 10 town and chance gettin' up
in the world in company with two deceas-
well, about tn time he'd made up his
mind to go back, long comes Jerry with
load of freight he was hauin' down to
| Tucson, an Lem struck him for a ride
Jerry lowed he wasn't runnin' no Pull
as his team 'ud hold out that hot wea-
ther to git him an the freight through
But Lem said ii was a grounding case
and tn upshot of it was he was goifi to
! be a passenger anyhow. Jerry knowed
! him pretty well by repatriation, an seed
he had a gun, so they arbtrated, an it
We're finally agreed that Lem was to act
white an not do no dirt by the outfit an
Jerry would low him to work his way
down to Tucson, rustlin' stock an cookin.
well, they did 1t all right Lem, bein
man of his word after his own particu-
lar sort, lived up to his end of tn con-
tract, an him and Jerry parted at tn end
of tn trip best of friends. Jerry, too hav-
in satisfaction in KNOWN he'd done his
town a good turn by haulin' off one of its
| worst encumbranceS.
THAT was all there was to that. but
when he landed in Tuscon, where he
wasn't so well known, Lem he started in
| to turn a trick. He proSpected round
some an seed how tn bank in town was
located an he figured that bank was Just
about due to git robbed. So he writes to
his brother, that was Tom that's reformed
now, to come down an help him with tn
job. Tom he come all right, leastways, he
started out from Yuma. but before he got
there some old Hassayampa up in the Ca
hole he was runnin', an bein more con-
sentative than tn most of them old moss
backs he comes down to town to bank it.
stead of cach'n it in his cabin
s'Well, of course every body heared about
tn big strike tn old man had made, an
how he'd salted in nigh onto a burro load
of pure dust in tn bank an Lem he thinks
IT'S too good a chance to lose, so he figures
to hold up tn bank single handed, 'thout
waitin' for Tom. Meantime he'd gone
out an picked up a pretty fair horse-on
tn road an a mighty fine saddle. But be-
in, as 1 say, tn town hadn't had a chance
to git onto i'm yet, an as tn man what
owned tn horse was a stranger, there
wern't no questions asked when they see
Lem ridn' him.
slack. bout tn middle of tn day an there
was sure not to be more n two clerks in tn
bank and maybe not more'n one II was
roulette chances there wouidn't be no GUS
toners inside, and probably not many
people on tn streets, everybody keeni-,-
In tn shade at that hour. So Lem he ne
ured TO ride his horse up to tn bank -
in an hold up tn house for an hi cbi1,s
there was on tn table, lock tn cIerls ,,r,
I'm tn vault, and canter outn town witt
all tn dust he could pack IN his saddle
Things couldn't have come more If.
way ~ he had hired EN- There wasnir
but one clerk IN IN bank, an nobody else
II was hot enough In the street to make