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

good deal Of a dude and didn't have
much commerce with him.
Zone day, though, while Jack was
in Leadville, he got letter from this
kid brother Of his, saying that he'd
been abused in jeff Mosely's faro bank
in Durango. He'd gone up against
Mosely's brace game, and after the
phony bank had got all Of his gilt,
some 5000, Mosely and his bunch had
dropped him out of q second-story WIN
dow, and the fall had broken one OF
his legs.
"Kinnear made a bee line for Dur
ango ten minutes after he got that let
ter in Leadville.
Now, this jeff Mosely man was a
pretty evil ombrey for anybody to play
tag with. He'd been running flyer
faro layouts all over the southwest and
the Rocky Mountain country for years,
and he'd never been known to duck or
blanch when the toughest and hottest
of his victims had started in to pune
ture the fixtures after dropping their
rolls.
He'd always stayed right along until
the smoke had drifted out Of the win
dows, and then, If any trouble over
dead people loomed up in front Of him,
he'd just fold up his layout and move
along to the next stand. He was
gun tanner and a knife fighter proper,
and up to the time Of this Silver Wire
Jack incident nobody had ever called
him and got away with 1t.
"Mosely ran four tables at his Dur
ango outfit, and he'd picked every one
of the four lookouts for their quick
ness on the trigger and their foxiness
in sizing up in advance the fellows who
looked like they were going to shoot.
Kinnear knew Mosely, and he knew all
about those four sudden propositions
who sat in the lookouts' chairs, too.
"All the same, at 10 o'clock on the
night after he'd got that letter from
his brother he showed up at the en-
trance to Mosely's layout. He hadn't
been to see his broken-legged brother
at all. He just wanted to see Mosely.
There was a half greaser on the
door, and this greaser, under instruc-
tions, tried to tell Kinnear that he
couldn't get in. Kinnear gave the
greaser slap in the face and then the
foot.
"The next instant he was in the lay
out, waving his forty-fves from side
to side. 80 as not only to cover Mosely,
who sat at desk, and the four look
outs, but the whole bunch who sat
playing at the four tables
1T would have been the simplest
thing in life for any one Of those four
lookouts to have poked his hand into
the drawer Of the dealer and to have
got the ready-to-hand gun out for ac-
ton. 1t would have been taking a
chance, for Silver Wire Jack was
known to be the limited mail when
it came to getting next to quick moves
Of this kind; but. If it had been done,
Mosely and the rest would have been
spared a whole lot of humiliation.
"But it wasn't done. Not a man OF
them made a move, except that the
players screwed their heads around to
see what was going to happen.
"'Mosely,' said Kinnear to the boss
of the plant, who sat at his desk like
a man carved out of stone, come over
here to me-a-runnin'.
"Mosely got up from his desk In
hurry and walked over close to Kin
near at a pretty nifty pace.
That's near enough said Kinnear,
still tanning his guns 80 as. to keep the
lookouts in order. What's this I'm
a-hearin' about your putin it on that
dude brother O. mine?'
"'He lost his coin and made beef
said Mosely, with bad look in his
eyes. Then, when he got mussy, he
was dropped out Of window
"'Who done tn droppin'?' inquired
Kinnear, not looking at Mosely, but
watching every movement Of the look
outs.
'Mosely hesitated until Kinnear's
bloodshot, fire-spitting eyes pinned
him.
"T did, he replied then.
so heerd,' said Kinnear, quietly.
"Then, in a voice that could be heard
a block, he gave the command:
"'All hands sashay to the corner
over there indicating by a nod of his
head the corner Of the room where
there was the most space. The men IN
front of and behind those tables knew
that it was a lottery as to who'd get 1t
first If the order wasn't obeyed instant
ly. They rose as one man, dealers,
lookouts and players, and glided to the
corner.
"'You stay where you stand Kin
near said to Mosely. The boss had
turned as If to join the crowd over In
the corner.
1T would have been so perfectly easy
for one Of the gang over In the corner
to have plugged Kinnear where ne
stood that it seems peculiar none OF
them tried it. I suppose it was because
in the shooting they knew Kinnear
would do, as he went down, each would
have chance to get some Of the lead.
'Mosely, said Silver Wire Jack,
never taking his eyes off the crowd In
the corner. Won are more different
kinds and colors Of skunk tinhorn
and four-flush than I've got hairs on
my head, amt you?'
Yes replied Mosely, swallowing
gulp. A man who looks into pair
of Pickering gun muzzles will agree to
any old proposition.
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