The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-22
JACK CHM AND HIS KNIFE.
How GoOdIoe Learned the Trick by
which He Killed swOpe.
From the Philadelphia Times.

which lie Killed SvvOpe.
From the Philadelphia Times.
When the courts in Kentucky have
nothing else to occupy their time and at
tentlon they indict Col. Jack" Chinn for
disturbing The mental peace of his neigh
Dor, and you can gamble that the neighbor
is in the wrong.
Because he is broad-shoulders, aud big
and strong hearted pettier men find
fault with him. and Chlnn. like a big
Newfoundland dog finally takes umbrage
at the jackal and maltreats him, If that
can be called maltrea.ment. The news
paper dispatches announce that the grand
jury of the county in which Lexington
has It's place. has brought against him
an Indictment for a breach of the peace
growing out of trouble with an ex-eana-
tor of Kentucky. Ii is not clearly stated
whether or not Chinn used cold steel upon
his antagonist. but It is safe TO say that
if he did he had no intention OF killing his
opponent because he never placed cold
metal into man without lhe purpose OF
ending the latter's earthly career, and
never failed in that object With him
the use Of a knife is not Intended as
joke, and Is only resorted to when he
thinks a life wager has been made. Nor
does he use a Bowie knife, but always
a weapon made from IDEAS OF his own,
and which some day Will bear his name,
Just az the famous American dagger has
handed down to posterty the cognomen
of the famous Kentucky colonel who
carried his knife at the back of his neck.
Chinn went to New York in the winter
Of 1890 and for some time, in partner
ship with Morgan, a wel-known book
atrar a
saloon on Twenty-sixth street The po-
lice, however although he was willing to
submit TO their Matchmaking extortions,
obeyed the demands of rival establish
ments and would not permit Chinn and
Morgan to turn their wheel. After the
place had been closed Jack Chinn re-
turned to his kentucky stock farm, where
once had grazed the famous Leonatus. the
uninterrupted winner Of more successive
stakes than any horse whose hoofS have
beaten on the American turf.
But why does he use a knife?
The narrator win answer that as Chinn
once answered him when he put the same
question Chinn is a man larger and more
powerful than John l.. Sullivan. He has
the shoulders Of an OK. After the news
had been received of the doubly fatal en-
counter between Goodloe and Swope In
Lexington KY, in which the latter used
pistol and the former knife, the mar
rator was talking to Chinn about the
dramatic encounter, when the latter was
handed a telegram, which, after he had
opened and read, he handed me. 1t con-
tanned simply these words:
He used your knife"
y Y'chinn, being looked at inqulrlngly. said:
"You wonder what that means. will
tell you More than one year ago my
friend, Col Goodloe. and Swope had
wordy encounter. I told Goodloe at that
time that the other man would attempt
to kin him, and that he should be pre-
pared for such an onslaught. and that he
owed il to his family-he having quite
large number of children-to arm himself.
He said that he would do so, and that
he would at once provide himself with
pistol / laughed at him. You should
know that Goodloe had been palsied for
a number of years. and that his hands are
continually trembling l said to him;
What can you do with pistol? There
can be no certainty about your aim. You
must carry knife He rather shivered
az the suggestion, and said he did not
know how to use one. Then / taught him.
/ had two knives made. Their handles
we're OF horn with grooves cut In them