The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-24
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ON sale.-Dr. Draper at Ann Arbor
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w ell, gents, l guess I'm about as law
aIoloinS a citizen as they make, for there
IS good deal o nonsense talked about
this here respect for law. What is law.
anyhow? Law, take 1t, IS the VIII OF
the people; neither more nor less. The
people in one state say: We won't have
any hangfn' here and they don't, unless
theT7a happens to be a lynchin bee; and
Kill EN- by electricity and they kills EN-
that way. Another SEE: Well kill en-
by hanSin' them on the gallows.' and
there they hang EN-. 1t was said in the
early days. Thou shalt not Kill and the
people o the United States nave Endorsed
that sentiment and say the kind o talk
from Mount Sinai is good enough for
Them; so that's an right. But when you
set judges and jurtes a-monl1eyin' with
the law and s5Win a mans not guilty
when ne Is guilty. or giving him q sem
tehee o " years when ne ought TO be
hanged, why then # the people get UP and
begin huntln' for q rope, ! amt the man
that goin to blame en-, Now you call
US out west a lawless lot, but 1t never
seemed 10 me we we're. we catch a man
red-handed. who has killed somebody by
a mean and Sneakin' way giving him no
chance for his life. and so We just get a
rope and throw it over a tree and it's good
BY, John. Now say that's good. square
law, and a darned sight more satisfactory
TO the victim than If you put him for
months in Jail while the lawyers are
WT3ngling over this point and that and
him not KNOWN what's goin' to happen,
and finally he gets hanged after all Why
| mink our man out west who gets square
Justice, done him in about ten minutes
instead o ten months is a great deal bet
Ter OF IN the long run. ana I'm sure we
pain citizens are always better satisfied
there a good deal to be said for straight
about It OF course we make mistakes
now and then. but so does the law down
east; and l think no greater legal mis-
takes can be made than that in Chicago
When they let them anarchists off. Sen
fence committed for life by one weak
governor, and then the lot O rapscallons
lel out BY another governor You can't
expect man bred and brought up in the
west to respect such law as that
Now When five of US came east out
O. the plains [ was the Oldest and so was
KIND O. the leader O the lot Not reeog-
nized leader, you know, but somehow
most o the things I said went Now and
then the boys groWled a bit. as for in
stance when | took their guns away from
EN-, yet they always did pretty much as
l wanted en- to. / said to EN- Now,
ooys, we re going east. We're goin' into
ldW-respecttng, law-abiding country. so
Vou got to put them shootin' irons away:
you got to give EN- right here to me and
FL put en- in my Valise and lock EN- up.
and when We go back out west why YOU
can have EN- again
And what are we to do cried Charo-
on us?'
Why, you fool said to him. mild
and gentle-lfke, the tenderfoots don't null
guns down east; they go to law
so | put away all them Shooters into
my VlltSe and locked EN- up out of harm :
way. We painted things red on our Wav
east. because. OF course We come TO have
a good tsme, and once or twice we were.
on the borders of a row. but nothin' han
pened serious until We got to Wfltonvllle:
then what occurred was so blamed sudden
that we none o us rightly knew the cause
O it although we were standin right
there in the bar room at the time Billy
CareW was the Youngest of our gang. and
although he talked a bit loud when he d
| been dTinhin vet there wasn't particle
o Marin in him. and everybody liked
nm tI a;,, A 5f,,li ha ,ae. never hurt g man
wi1en ned had three or four glasses of
liqUSr on board you'd think he'd blotted
ou- foWn91ins- one after another All at
once. right among the roar . ta!k and
ldIISb.n. and S3yiu' Here's loOlSIn' at
/ You, there came three barl1s of a ravolv-
err, One, two, three. just like that. and
B.lly Sarew was down on his knees and
( Degan 10 cough. l knew that sound: I
( mad Aeard It before. and l knew in a
minute Billy was done for. Every one
OF our gang except poor Billy put his
WAS nothing there. Then they looked AT
me-, and knew what they We're tbinJ5i11'
/ OF. | ram to Billy and nut my hands nm
/ der mis- arms and held him up and yelled
! to the three st9n7in there. See that the
| oowardly dog don't escaped But he was
( backing off toward the door. hoidnq
( them off wlb1 his reveiveT. and l knew
( theeae were four Shots more in lit. and 81
| ne got outside into she darkness. 1t didn't
! do him amy g1od, however. for the BAR
! keeper jumped az quick as lightning and
! sprung am alarm of soma KIND and In
! police nat5e1 the murderer before Ned a
! chance to get out O town. But all that
/ didn't heiD p-1- B.lly Carew any far he
was dead before his, murderer get cut o.
I the door. Three shots at an unarmed
man ait arms length. 1t was too cruel,
| Toe rest blamed me pretty savage fer
| takin' away fiheir guns, and I hadn't a
word to say, and er las. when they rad
said enough, Cher0kee Sam told EN- tc