Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-03-07

for .Kinnear had him impaled with his
eye and covered with one Of his guns.
Now said Silver Wire Jack, after
Mosely had thrown the last table out
Of the window and stood regarding
Kinnear for all the world like a grizzly
with a. whole fore-quarter in a trap,
you follow your layout
"Kinnear was three inches shorter
in stature and weighed fully forty
pounds less than Mosely, who was a
giant. But he suddenly jabbed his
guns into his belt, the bunch in the
corner never .making a move, and in
two bounds he had Mosely around the
middle. Mosely, before being grabbed
that way, had made a dive for his
desk to get a gun; but he wasn't sud-
den enough. Kinnear lifted him clear
Off the ground, like grocery boy lifts
a ten-pound paper bag Of flour, and
Mosely landed on the plank sidewalk,
his left leg broken just below the knee.
THAT was the exact place where
Kinnear's kid brothers leg had been
broken when Mosely hurled him out Of
the same window.
"Kinnear got his guns the instant
he threw Mosely out Of the window
and covered the bunch in the corner
again. The lookouts had been afraid
to take :; shot cat Kinnear while he
was dragging Mosely to the window
for fear of hitting the gambler.
"T amt got nothinr agin the boys
that's been stackin' up against this
game remarked Silver Wire Jack, re-
Stunning his gun tanning move, except
that they'd be hell Of a sight better
off If they'd play bean bag or num-
blety-peg or somethin' like that in
stead O. tryin' to whop brace two
at-a-clip bank game. But I'm sorry
to have been compelled t. stick up all
hands in order t git away with this
little play, which is all on account Of
dude brother O. mine that gifts the
bum end Of it in this honkatonk late
ly. But If any O. you
Bang! went the report of a gun.
The shot came from the door. Mosely,
with his broken leg, had crawled up
the stairs and with gun the greaser
doorman had handed him, had tried for
Silver Wire Jacks head. The ball went
wide a couple of inches, and the next
time Mosely's trigger came down there
h,tf
defective cartridge.
Kinnear killed Mosely where he lay,
never move being made by man IN
the bunch rounded up in the corner.
Then he backed out over Mosely's
body. That was the end Of that Incl
dent.
1.-TWO years after this, Kinnear in
vented the stroll-and- shoot duel. He
had some trouble with Gimp Murray,
who ran a honkatonk in La Junta.
The two men had got into an argument
in Murray's place, and 1t had wound
up by Kinnear backing out Of the door
with his hands up Murray having the
drop on him. Murray didn't shoot be-
cause his gun wasn't loaded-he had
been cleaning it, and had forgot to
replace the cartridges. He'd have
killed Silver Wire Jack otherwise.
But that was the first time Kinnear
had ever been stuck up at the point or
a gun, and it irked him.
THAT same night he sent word to
Murray that he was going to shoot him
up some on the following day. Muir
ray wasn't a man to take to the cliffs
or the cactus, having few notches
himself, and he walked around La
Junta the next afternoon, heeled like
a battery Of light artillery.
"Kinnear got the bulge on him by
suddenly popping out from around a
corner as Murray paraded the main
street, and then Murray's hand went
up for a change Kinnear had two
guns on him, and Murray wasn't any
fool.
""This,' remarked Kinnear, is where
I git an even split f'r my coin. Now,
you like me 80 much that want you
to show your likin' O. me, as It were,
by walkin' aroun' town linked arms
with me fr awhile
1T was up to Murray to comply.
Kinnear ja abbed his guns back into his
belt, and then he clutched Murray's
left arm and passed it through his own
right arm. The disadvantage Of this
arrangement occurred to Kinnear. 1t
left Murray's right gun arm free, while
In case Of argument Kinnear would
have to use his left-hand gun. But
Silver Wire Jack wasn't selfish.
1.-THE population Of La Junta was
amazed to see Silver Wire Jack Kin
near and Gimp Murray, who, as every
body knew, had had quarrel that
meant the death Of one or both Of them
the night before, walking arm-in-arm
up and down the main street OF the
town. It looked like a perambulating
love feast between the pair. But they
were watching each other like pam
theirs. At the end Of the street, Kin
near, WIFI nlS IlSHl dih BILL iiihSo 40
Murray's left, stopped suddenly and
said:
"'Gimp, I amt much on tn blow
about and suddenness that may pos
sess; but 1 want to give you chanst.
You thrung 1t into me las night in a
way that's ct up 80 much Of the air
around yere that there's not enough
left f'r both of us t. breath. I'm ago
in t. count three, an when say three
it's a break-away an finish. You've
got a loose right arm, but I amt no
hog. One-two-three!
"The event proved Kinnear the
quicker man and the better marksman.
He got Murray through the heart,
whereas Murrays ball only clipped
Kinnear's collar bone.
II heard, years ago, that Silver Wire