Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-18
III ike. She were always mighty gen.

full ike. She were always mighty gen.
lie an quiet an was always doin some-
thin for me, like she were tryin ter say
that she thought a heap O. my standin
up fer her. This were long bout har-
vest time, an | hadn't been feelin so
good as then sence Lizzie run away.
The women folks didn't neighbor much
with her, but man, she says the women
air a pack O fools, an set a heap O. store
by Lizzie.
lone evenin l struck up with Nate
Rogers on the road, an he says, says he
Say, did ye see that Deering Teller ter
day? He were round by your house
talkin ter Lizzie, he, says, IAN / seen her
cryin.' Look here, Nate, I says, we
mean we'll, I reckon, but ye remember
that ye air talkin bout my wife now
'Oh, we'll, says Nate. i didn't mean no
harm, only Brought ye orter know
what was goin on, an with that he took
a short cut Gross the fields, an I i KEEP on
the road.
lit were just shutdown, an l were
walkin long the road, where hit rounds
the hill long above the river. / were
goin slow, thinkin over what Nate said,
an not lookin fer anybody, when all O.
a sudden I run against a man. Hit were
Deering himself. He jumped a little,
but says, cool as anything, Good
evenin, Joskins,' an made like he were
goin ter pass on. I reached out my hand
an stopped him.
"'Ye've come down here ter make
more trouble where ye've made too
much a're'dy,' says l.. we've come
down here ter see Lizzie, my wife, I
says, but If ye make any more trouble
fer her or keep hangin round tryin ter
see her, by God, I'll kill yel'
"'It takes a better man than ye ter
do that, says he. smilin ugly. I was a
better man in love than ", an I reckon
I am in some other things. Ye fool
he says, If l wanted Lizzie, do ye
think she'd stay with sech a country
lout as yer She'd leave ye termorrer if
I said the word
"'Ye air a liar, I says, an he struck
at me with a cane he carried-one o.
them loaded ones. I ketohed it ON my
left arm, an then l gripped him. He
was strong as me pretty near, but he
wasn't tightin fer what I was, an he
went down under me heavy. My left
arm were under when we went down,
an I felt it sort O. give way, but l got a
grip on his throat with my right hand,
an I ohoked the life most out'n him.
W. rolled orost the road, an I was look
in fer both Of us ter go over the side.
We knowed hit were him or me, an he
were fghtin hard fer his life, but I were
fghtin harder fer Lizzie, an I had the
best Of it. He done his best ter fight my
hand of'n his throat, but hit weren't
no use. I had hit gripped. He hit me
in the face an tried ter get his hands on
my neck, but my arm was the longest.
I pushed his head back an back, with
him aghtin a little weaker all the time
an his face gettin dark. Then I felt us
both a-slippin, an ! managed ter jerk
loose IN fell back on the road. an he
went over the edge. He made one grab,
but he only ketched the loose rocks.
Then there come a splash an a rattle O.
fallin stones, an I knowed he were on
the rocks in the river a hundred foot
below.
II laid there awhile, an then I strug-
gled up an went home. The doctor,
yander, kin tell ye the rest. He fixed
my arm up that night an tended Lizzie
next day when the leetle baby come, an
her an the baby both died.
The prisoners hands worked on the
arms Of the chair. There was a hush in
the courtroom, and some one in the
crowd sighed heavily. The attorney for
the defense arose. MAY it please the
court" he said, "the defense rests it's
case" - Henry Holoomb Bennett in
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.