Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-23

on the hOrlZon having sort or dea1,
dumb and blind staggers.
Zone night he up and took her from
church, and people said he spent the
rest Of the night romping around on the
prairie. But finally Campbell heard Of
these doings and told the girl he'd send
her to convent If he ever caught her
speaking to Alvah.
AT first Welch and his crowd
thought they'd fix It up that the Bap-
tist minister was Bolo in disguise. But
finally Welch slapped his leg and said:
by cricky, the Willie dentist!'
Then the crowd laughed. The Will
lie dentist had come to town about four
months before. He was little, slend-
er, soft man, who read from morning
to night in his office because he hadn't
got many patients. On the infrequent
occasions when he did appear on the
streets he had a shrinking, timorous
manner as though the horses and rough
men scared him, and his voice was as
gentle as girls.
"One day a stranger came in Alvah's
office and asked for five minutes pri-
vate conversation. The man looked i'm
portant and scared. There was no rea-
son Alvah should know that his visitor
was Welch's brother-in-law from over
Leon way.
Say said the man in a whisper, I
was in the Sante Fe hold up. seen
Bolo in town this afternoon. Don't
tell or I'm dead man.
"Alvah got up and locked the door.
Then the man talked and Alvah asked
questions.
"'If it's all straight said Alvah A.
nally, I'll divvy the $4,000 reward
with you
"I don't want no divvy,' said the
man. I want home. Lord help you If
he gets onto you first
For the next week Alvah watched
the Willie dentists office and Welch
and his gang watched Alvah and near
ly died laughing. Then the snap leak
| ID around.
people laughed at first, then they
got mad. It began to look as though
Welch might Lave the pleasure of help
ing ride Alvah out Of town on rail.
Nobody had the nerve to tell the sher-
iff.
Then one morning Alvah disappear
ed up the dentists staircase and came
down a minute later dragging the little
man by the collar. Nobody ever knew
what had happened upstairs, but the
crowd that had already gathered in the
street began to buzz when they saw the
Willie dentist trying to fight back the
tears.
"This- consider this unjustifia-
ble, the poor little man was saying.
am sure you have acted hastily
1.-THE little beggars voice was as
sweet and gentle as baby's. Alvah's
Dig paw took better grip.
"It's a shame said the crowd.
Turn him loose, you fool
Then one Of Welchs friends yelled,
Lynch Dade!' Tar and feather him.
yelled somebody else.
1.-THE crowd closed in. The dentist
stopped and looked around appealing
| ly. Alvah yanked him about eight feet
and swung his gun holster around IN
easy reach. Then the crowd caught Al
vah's eye and fell back a couple OF
yards. ,
"But the news ran around town like
wild fire and the mob grew and hooted
and yowled and those that weren't IN
the mob got up on the roofs and in win
dows and reviled Alvah.
1.-THE sheriff was waiting for his dep
uty in the Jail Office. He was apoplec-
tic and profane.
"'This settles it he said. Turn that
gentleman loose and get back to the
brush, If you can escape your hoWhng
| friends outside.
""This gentleman said Alvah, goes
into q cell till the United States mar
shall from Austin can get here and take
i look at him. After that out go Il
you say So
"The sheriff wasn't a man that Pee~
ple commonly talked thatR to but
he saw that is pwA Alvah out then
and thers D(ed probably be lynch
| ting~He looked Alvah over for minute
Ind then said:
VERY we'll, mix your medicine your
own way
"Alvah hustled the little dentist into
cell and sent keeper out with a tel
egram to Austin. The marshal tele-
| yraphed back:
Impossible your man Bolo. Have
him at depot at so I can catch 5.l2
back
"Alvah took his man out the rear
door and got into the station two min
utes before the mob reached 1t. Ev-
erybody in town was in the mob, and
Welch's crowd had two barrels OF tar
md a dozen sacks Of feathers.
No rH nf tho matinee
and drove around with his daughter. He
thought it would be a good chance to
cure her of some nonsense she had been
showing. A lot of people felt sorry for
Alvah because they liked him before he
went crazy. The mob howled.
"Alvah stood on the platform hand
cuffed to the Willie dentist. His uncle
stood next to him. The sheriff was fig
uring how he could fix it so his nephew
would at Il asst have run for 1t. The
Willie dentist stood like wooden man,
| his eyes sort Of CLASSY. The crowd
| thought the shock would probably kill
him.
"'Now, boys said Welch to his fell
'oW-devils, as soon as the marshal be-
gins to swear at being called up here
for nothing, Dadell hand over his
badge and gun. Then go for him In
bunch. Crack him over the head II
he's too lively to put the tar on hot.
"Then the train pulled In and the
marshal and two deputies stepped off.
When the marshal saw Alvah and the
Willie dentist he stopped in his tracks,
stared for moment and then laughed.
Then the crowd roared too, but the next
minute it was still so as not to lose a
| word of the fun. The expression of the
Willie dentists eyes and mouth SEEM
| I'd to have changed.
"'Hello, Sam Bolo,' said the mar
shall to the Willie dentist, so you've
heen rorralled at last2