The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-21
LEM TWREDY's FATAL KICK
80 hit q Tomcat, and the Act Cost kim
His Life.

BOYS, = said the man from the southwest.
.sThey're all killed now but one. an they
say he's reformed. I guess that's tn
reason. Say, did I ever tell you how tn
tomoat got Lem TweedY hung down in
Tucsonq I guess he'd been hung sooner
or later anyhow, but tn tomcat, sure, was
at the bottom Of it as it happened.
ssThev belonged over ia Globe, tn
Tweedvs did. but Lem Tweedy he drifted
over TO PheniK. That was before tn rail-
road come in there, an after they got right
we'll acquainted with him in Phenix they
5ueged him No; he hadn't done nobhin
That was the trouble. If he had, they'd
a-hung him, but he wouldn't give EN- no
provocation. You can hang a man for
doin nothin. an they got tired of him
Twin on til town, SO they jagged him as
moral example to tn community, along
with the greasers an ohinks an the rest
of tn trash cut in tn county Jail.
well, that didn't do no good. They
sent him out on th' road with tn chain
gang to work, but Lem he just went over
to q mesquite bush an laid down in tn
shade an went to sleep. He said tn ooun-
try had took it ON itself to lock him up, an
now they could took it on themselves to
feed i'm. Well, they took i'm out tn
chain gang for fear Of demoralizin tn
ersasers an hoboes an put i'm on bread an
water at tn jail Lem he got hold of
some old shippin tags an a blue an red
pencil somewhere an painted him up q lot
of monte cards, so between whites he won
all tn tobacco an everything else tn greas-
ers an tia Cinnamon had THROWN tn
three cards for en-.
Z" Rout that time two greasers killed e
man out on tn edge of town, an he bein
right popular fellow the word was give for
th crowd to so up that evenin an lynch
'en. Course TIL warden he heard of it, an
a 49, a
of Lem. TIL warden didn care particular
about havin inn hung, but he told Lem
tn boys was Uhinkin about all fred serious
that they had calculated it was a pretty
good time to git rid of an encum berance
on tn community along with tn greasars.
Tt come SO near soundin plausible that
Lem he believed it, an when tn warden
said he'd better take advantage of tn ex-
element to pull his freight out Of town
Lem thanked i'm an said be guessed he
would
''Th' warden give i'm a small canteen
TO carry inn acrOsb tn desert, for there
werent no place for i'm to strike nearer
IA Tucson. When he pulled his stakes, he
managed to steal tn day keepers gun, but
even that an tn canteen wasn't much Of
an outfit for tn ella desert in summer, an
when Lem got out to tn last water on tn
edge of town he just lays down in, an al
falfa field to think it over. He knowed if
he got out on tn sand in tn daytime he'd
Dry Up IKE q ralsln, an ne Weren much
given to Walkln anyhow an he told Jerry
hellam afterward he was thinkIn serious
whether he g go out ana rlsk ge0Uln dessl-
Gated on tn desert or 60 back to town and
chance gettin up in TIL world in company
with TWO deceased greasers.
We'll, about tn time he d made up his
mind to go back long comes Jerry with a
4oad OF lrelghg ne was naulln TO tucson
an lem struck MIN Tor ride. Jerry
4oWed ne WASH ruhhln no Pullman pas
senger tram an ne dldn know as his team
ud holu out unaU ho5 weather to git nun
an III freight through. Bu1 Lem sald 70
was q grounding case an IN upsnoU OF IL
vas ne was goln 20 pc passenger anyhow
Jerry knowed MN pretty well oy reperta-
ton an seed ne hnd gun SO they arpl-
trated, an lt We're uaally agreed that Lem
was 70 act white an not do no dlr6 by tn
outAO an Jerry Roula low nun 20 work
his way down to Tucson, rustlln stock an
cooklh.
We'll they dld II all right Lem, Deln
man q his word after nus own particular
sort, hVed up 20 ms END OF IN contract an
hlih az Jerry parted az IA emu OF "a. trip
best OF friends Jerry, TOO havln satlsIac-
1lon IA SHOWN ne oohe ms town gooa
turn py hauAn on one OF It's worst encGM-
Derances
1ha6 was al uhere was to that, but
when he landed ia Tucson, where he
WASH 50 well known, Lem he started in
TO turn trick lie prospected round
some an seed now 0n Dank IN town was
located, an ne Inquired laaS panA was Jus5
q about due to git robbed So he writes TO
his brother-that was Tom, that reform
ed now-to come down an help him with
tn JOB, Tom ING come all rlght-leastways
he started out from 4una-but before no
got there some old Hassayampa up IN tn
Satalnas struck a big pocket IN a prospect
hole he was runnins an, bein more con
servative than tn most of them old moss
backs, he comes down to town to bank it,
stead Of each IA it in his cabin