Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-03-27

two hours whom a messenger came in
from my friend, the surgeon general,
saying he had just been called on for an
important surgical case and asking If /
would not accompany him and admins
ter the anwsthctic. lily California com-
RADIO and myself voted Our new found
ac~quaintal.co q most charming man and
a capital fellow generally, though after
ward / remarked TO myself that l had
not az yet found out anything abJao
where he came from or WHO he was.
Busy for tho next TOW days, 1 thought
but little moro Of this entertaining
stranger. About q week later, however,
l dropped into The Palace, inst to sec
who was there, and Tho stranger, quiet
and uncolumunicativc Us usual, was
watching tho games, l.anCiug
over any one table for moro than two or
three minutes mt a time. FROM hcre 1
stepped into The Capital, and Bert, the
head man, not being busy, 1 began q
conversation with him. Presently the
well dressed stranger came in, and l
noticed Bert's eyes take On a rather de-
FAINT flash as he watched him PASS 10
the rear of the room.
ebert, who is that MANI" / asked.
"I've seen him about for some time
now, but he neyor seems to speak toony
one. He must be some eastc-Lcr hcco
for the winter, isn't Lc?'
"Why, don't you know thGs follovt'
was the quick response. 'LIo Knows
better than to speak 20 mc. Es's TIE
blank OF q blank wEo killed Jim FaLOl
in Prescott five years ago. Why, yoa
remember his mu-dor, don't you, gen
eral?"
"Eo; 1 don't recall it, Bent. That
was when l was in EfoEtanu, and L
reckon the trial aid all took place be-
fore my return"
"Well, it waa tho most cowardiy muir
der l ever know, and if chat duck had
his deserts he'd have stretched hcrupfcr
it long ago. You knew Fallon, Of course,
who used to ri a bank in Tombstone,
and after the flash days there ho moved
TO PRESCOTT"
l nodded assent, and ho won't on
'"rhis fellow, Jack Uudcrhill, Il.mbic
Jack, who was nothing but % low down
tin horn anyway, SIT full Il n!sht
and raised such a disturbance 0t 1Gl-
Ions table that 10 finally got Up AND
kicked him out Of tic L5usC.
"Underhill was furious ovcr this
method Of election, and fot several day.
went around threatening that Lie wc.
going to get even with Failon. Some o.
Jim's friends told him he had better
look out for Thimble Jack, Gs lie was ;
t%reacherous cuss and would probably
stab him III the back. Bat Fallen laugh
ed at them, declaring that Jack was t2,
big a coward TO attack 4 child, lot alon'
| a man.
$50 the matter rul along for alnOs
, q week and nearly every had for
gotten about it, when one night ab5u.
, 10 o'clock, as Fallon was standing by
{ tho bar talking to some friends, TIM.
cowardly dog shot Him il tho back with.
l out the slightest warning. IN the con
r fusion he managed to got away and hi
in the house OF a frail woman Talk O.
/, lynching wa so strong the next day
; that lie sIeaEed over to the shoriI IS Of
fec and gave himself NJ. bGllol HIger.
ed along for three weeks before BE died,
"yYhcn tho trial came, this fellow.
family or eono Of his friends, cor som,
one in the east, put up The money f3i
him, and he had half q dozen Of tE,
best criminal lawyers in Che s3uthWeit
defending him. For myself 1 Away
believed the jury wac t@,uaqorci with.
too, for they only brought 81 % NcIdic
Of granddaughter and he simply got
sentence Of 1yo years, ard what Wit
good time he's ont now
Il hope You haven't spoken to him
for no self respecting white man hk,
you ever wants to speak TO such a COW
, ardly dog as him"
/. Aud 30 this vas my entertainer Of
/ few evenings before. Then it daUne,
upon mo why his face had always seem
I ed familiar to me. AS 4 territorial OH
q cial l had often visited The poniteptiG,
/ at Yuma, and horo l mud seen NY frien
r of the Riviera, my friend the gambler
-Gonoral Edward $. gill in New Yor
d Recorder.