Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21

you last winter. We would "a had
the damned g. of b. broken up
We would have stolen every God
Damned hoof that he had just that
way. Joe says yes, 1 am buying for
Barber. How many can you bripgP
Crawford says -four or i've loads any
way Then Crawford says, can you
handle cattleP Joe says yes then
I'll bring you 25 or 30 head of steers
says Crawford. 1T you get up any
morning and find streers in your lot,'
says Crawford, you will know where
they come from. Go on and sell
them and come over and divvy'' Joe
said all right.
II told Champlin about this talk
with Crawford on the Sunday morn
ing after / fret talked with him on
Saturday. Champlin says he has
been robbing me, and I'd like to
catch him You go ahead and let
him lay his plans and then tell me
when the raid is to DO made and I'll
pay you for it, He agreed to give
me $780,
Crawford alterward asked me to
find out where Uhamplin kept his
steers and he would take over rs or
or 80 head of steers, Crawford sent
me to Jake Shops and said for me to
tell him that things was all right and
tell him the night we had fixed on.
/ went to Jake and told him, what
Crawford said and Jake said he had
decided not to have anything to do
with it.
ave, I and Goodman, man l got
to help me, went and borrowed a
wagon and went out to Crawford's
on the night set, the Goth of May.
Crawford got up and after be got
away from the house he changed his
shirts and put dark one outside
and the light one he wore under
meath. We went down to Cnamplin's
pens. Crawford went up on the hill
and looked around and then came
back aud told US everything was all
right. He got in the pens first and
we followed. He drove out the hogs.
We helped him Then he closed the
gate After we had gone a little
ways he counted them and found he
had only IL. He said this is not
enough So we went back and got
five more, making 16 altogether"
Handy here went on to explain how
the creek ran, and where they drove
the hogs.
Il couldn't tell much about the
way the creek ran, because I could
not see very well. [ have lost one
eye since that time. We went per
haps a quarter or a half a mile, and
were up on Crawford's place, or he
said we we're, when some fellow rails
ed up and said 'haltp The fellow
that was with me started to run and
l ran to-"
A litter ran through the court room
at this statement Of Hsndy's.
Il don't know what occurred then.
We found the wagon and got out Of
there.
On cross examination Handy told
the same story. There were minor
points introduced, but we have not
space for them Handy denied that
he had first proposed to Crawford
that they steal the hogs. Crawford,
he said, made the first proposition.
In answer to the question, what
did you run FIR Scott" Handy re-
piled: II didn't see any sense in
standing there, and don't think be
did; he ran and / went after him"
TESTIMONY OF L. A. oHAMpLIN.
L. A. Ohamplin testified that be
had lived IN the county about IA
years. That be owned a farm seven
miles from town, southeast. He kept
hogs and stock there. j. M. Handy
and Scott Handy both told him Of
the plot to steal his hogs He told
Scott to let them lay their plans and
let HIM (Champlin) know when the
raid was to be made and he would
arrange to catch them. His testi
mony corroborated Handy's story
Handy told him when the raid was
to be made
"Handy passed me on the street
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