The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-04
ALONG COMES JIM AND CLEANS
OFT THE OUTFIT.

But let loose the dogs. Jim Harper
was arrested and put on trial He de-
MED nuthin'. All he said was that JOE
Toole was no man. OF course he wasn't t.
The court said so, and you all said so,
and the court got so worked up over II
that he let Jim 60 and sentenced Joe 10
seven years in state prison. Mebbe II
was stretchin' the law a leetle. Mebbe 1t
wasn't accordin' to the statoOts- My
decision has been upset by the higher
court, and I've got to tell Joe TOole thar
he Is a free man. I do tell him so, and L
add that if he is hangin' around Sandy
Bend an hour hence this court will give
him a lickin' to be remembered all the
rest Of his days. If Jim Harper was
we're I'd fine him enough to pay for the
drinks all around. but as he is hOldln'
up stages over in Arizona a t the present
time, and is thus beyond our jurisdic-
ton, all we kin do is to wish him we'll
The second case is that of Tom
Reynolds agin Scott White. We all
know en-, and we know that neither
are with the powder to blow EN- up.
Tom Reynolds is drunk five days in the
week, and works at his claim on Wolf
Mountain the other two. Scott White
would be drunk all the time if there
was whisky huff in Sandy Bend and
toss-up between the two. and no call
for sympathy.
Three months ago Tom Reynolds
breaks into a Chinese laundry and
toned al this juncture that the best
shirt in the lot belonged to this court
and that when he finally got it back
one of the tails and all the buttons
was gone. Tom is carryin' off his plum
der, and has got as fur as Squaw
Creek, when Scott White steps out and
pints a stick at him and holds him up
and takes the shirts. Tom has two
guns on him, and don't snap a car
fridge in defense He stands thar and
shakes and shivers fur q spell, and
then he comes to rout me out and holleI
fur jestice-
Is this whar they gifts jestice?' he
says as he rushed into the Red Dog.
She be- says I, and how do you
want it?'
BY the bar'l'
Then he goes on to tell me that he
has bin robbed, and I issue a warrant
fur Scott Reynolds and bring him to
the bar. he stands on his rights He
claims that he was only Robin a rob
Der. and that he had no deadly Weepins
to pint. You will remember the amaze
ment Of this court when them eighteen
shirts was spread out on the floor and
recollect how Tom Reynolds went down
/ into his butes and tried to git out
doors. When this court recovered from
its surprise sunthin was done Ton
was sentenced to be hung by the neck
until dead. and Scott was taken ou'
and booted clear off the town limits
THE supreme court amt sayin' l
word about his case, but it has reversed
the hanSin' It gently hints that thi.
court can't impose a hangin' sentence
/ but that thar is sunthin' of a difference
/ between robbery and murder. Thi.
court is obleeged to agree He is willin
to admit that the sight Of his stoler
shirt carried him a 1eetle too fur While
/ he viii cOntiner to feel that a crittel
} who WI steal the only shirts eighteen
/ respectable men have get deserves con
cign punishment. he will let hissel
down as gracefully as possible
TON Reynolds. stand w This cour
craWfshes and sets you al liberty You
! could be held fnr the robbery. but ",
ar gOin to wipe the hull bizness of ths
docket and have done with it, Now
she's wiped. and you have got ten min
utes to git cut o Sandy Bend AS fu
Scott White, he IS in Jail in Utah fu
horse stealth ard We cant tech him IN
til he happens to stroll this way again
That's ell
Somebody lick that Chinvman whl
has -ust spit on the stove and some
body else turn the dogs out and let 'en
fight, and declar this court ad5ournei
till somebody else comes howlin' arouni
fur 1estice and law Copyright, 1906
by r. d. MarshalI.9