The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12
Ths aa1itha naru Eagles Sunday gortris gaY q 1901.

the affair, cooked his rife and soon gal
Hoped or the prisoner to the 'SQuire's |
Office
But this was but the beginning Of the
trouble IN the case. The witnesses were
yet to be summoned and brought before
the justiee-even the complaining wit
mes shad unexpectedly Withdrawn from
the house and premises OF the justice, and
was 20 be looked after.
The hunter could not possibly stay
long, as his comrades were TO meet him
at a point down ten or fifteen miles dis
tant that evening. The prisoner was quite
sullen. and IL was evident that the
squire could nj keep him safely If the
constable and hunter we're TO leave And
although the 'squire's jurisdiction ex-
tended from the west line Of Ohio far
toward the Rocky mountains, and from
the Ohoi river north 70 Green Bay, Yet,
50 sparse was the neighorhoOd in point
OF population, and so scattering were
the settlers that he and his faithful con-
stable found that it would be Of but lit
tie use 70 make q call upon the posse
comitatus But in this critical situa-
ton Of affairs, the fruitful mind OF the
justice hit upon first rate plan 70 keep
the prisoner until the witnesses could be
brought Il was simply to pry up the
corner OF his heavy eight-ralied fence,
which stood hard by-make a crack two
or three rails above the ground-and
thrust the prisoners head through the
crack and then take out the pry.
AS soon as the squire made known
his plan 10 the company they, with one
accord, resolved 10 adopt it The con-
stable Immediately rolled out an empty
begun for 8 fulcrun, and applied q
fence rail for lever, up went the fence,
the justice took hold of the prisoners
arm and, with the assisting nudges OF the
hunter, who brought I'D the rear, rife in
hand, they thrust the prisoners head
through the crack nolens voiens, and
then took out the prop. There lay the
offender safe enough, his head on one
side Of the fence, and his body on the
other. The hunter went on his way, sat
isded that he had done signal service
70 his country-and the constable could
now be spared TO hunt up the witnesses.
The prisoner. IN the meantime, al
though the crack il the fence was fully
large enough for his neck without pinch
ing, kept squirting about, and Drawing
out Justify: ChoI1e>trapi The d take
your choke-trapi
g Towards sunset the constable re
turned with the witnesses The prisoner
was taken from bis singular duress, and
was regularly tried sor his misdemeanOr.
he was found guilty. mulet in a fine and,
as 1t appeared from the evidence on the
trial that the defendant had been guilty
aforetime OF the same ofense, the justice
sentenced him 10 three hoprs' tmprison-
ment in JAN. There being no jail within
one hundred miles, the constable and
bystanders led the offender 10 the fence
again, rolled up the gum. applied the ral
and thrust his head second time
through the fence. There he remained IN
limbo until 10 o'clock that night; when.
after giving security for the fine and
cists. he was set at liberty, with not a
few cautions that for the future he had
better let Betsy alone. or he would get
another application Of the law and choke
trap.
THE early judicature OF Indiana. as
above given, If administered in like form
in Sedgwick county court, would certain
~ reduce the number Of divorce pro-
ceedings for the next ten years com
pared with the past ten years. Indeed, we
think the domestic affairs would be
equally as pacific II we had a few 'ap-
pIcations OF this mild and diluted form
Of lynch law -