The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-04
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Grit BETTER Thas 0uas In The Case se
This Convicted Horse Thief.


mans nerve 10 good thing 10 have
with him." said a mining expert who has
been all over the West for the last thirty
years. especially when he IL In my BUSH
ness When ] was a yeunRstsr back here
IN the East always avoided flEhtln9 with
other boys simply becauss I didn't like
to hight ana they used 10 lick me on all oc-
casions. not no much because could not
hght as because / would not When I
came west though. as a man. and got ln,o
the atmosphere Of scraps I found that II a
man didn't have his nerve with him. he
never would amount to anything 90 I
braced up and found could hold my own
about ms well as the average. though
kept out Of trouble as far as ! could. The
nervicst chap ! ever saw Was horse
thief In Nevada. n was Twenty-Five years
ago AZ Phoebe. New. which IL on the map
now. guess. ard the town was all torn
Up over the loss 81 horses by the dspre-
dstions Of thieves. Finally Mike Corey. o
weii-known PiochAn. lost a fine may mare
and Mike thought enough Of hsr TO taxa
active measures 10 get her back II pos
ssble and punish the thieves He sent word
out 10 oil the camps and settlements. and
IN the course Of several days he heard
Of the mare at Desert spring. about sew
snty-nve miles ewar. man had bought
her over there from a party he aid not
know. Mike made all this Inquiries he
eonld. and a.; last we had round up.'
that s.. we pvt guards ofer the town
and called on all the Inhabitants for miles
around 70 come in and be identgnsA -Four
hundred and hfty men reported and 81
were duly accounted for but ;hrcs. These
three could not satisfactorily explain
themselves. and they ~ere locked up un-
"a We could have the Dessert Spring man
pass en- them H.. came ard at afce snsd
that they we're the crowd who brought the
mare TO Desert sprlns That VIA an the
testimony we wanted ana after 8 TRIAL ~
a picked sury. the THREE horse thieves we're
condemned 20 be hanged that ksa8s aft#F-
noon down AZ Biz Tree. four miles from
tewr. A procession WAS formed with fhs
three prisoners ia q wagon having q htgh
seat for corveniencs AZ tire hanging and
we moved cn toward The keene If art&gn
Ia good order. Arriving there enc man
was seatca IN the wagon and driven an
Ser the llrnb az the tree with The repe
dangling doau from a. and when he wss
properly adjusted for the application u
the rope eef leader took a blank book nat
cf hls pocket ARD sddrsxsN6 the prisoner.
- whats your name says he. I don't
MEAN tbs name you &c by cut herr. baf
your real name; The one they know you
By Al nomeT
The prisoner gave his name "a request
ed ard Il was not the same BY which he
was known in the West.
sNow ynnr address continued ths
ia&aeg. after wrtt.ns DOWN the name. so
We can notify your folks mat you are
dead or c0urAs We won't say that we
hung you for horse stealing, but will call
II accidental or something like that 50
they viii not feel 50 bad over your loss.
Anything else you want 70 say or word
you want 70 send will be put down IN
this book and your last wishes viii be at
tsrsssed TO as far as possible. So~ what
have you got TO say
The man begged and pleaded 10 be let
-, ~Aksng " ssrp 81 ngQDisSz. ths lssdSI