Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-10-29

STRETCHED HIM DEAD.
ped in as the days went by the propri
etor of the Old Home, if not too busy,
would put all his doubts to flight by
saying:
I'm brother-in-law to Alderman
Blank. See? I'm cousin to Jimmy
O'Toole, who runs this district. Smoke
that. The police captain is me wife's
own uncle. Chaw that awhile. AS to
the ward men and patrolmen; I'm tip
ping them their drinks to see nothing.
When anybody starts out to make
trouble for Terry O'Geegan he'll buck
up agin stone WALL" al
The Old Home prospered 1t couldn't
help but prosper. saloon with a pull
naturally becomes the headquarters of
men with pull and of men who yearn
for pull. 1t is also handy place for
thirsty pedestrians to drop into at any
hour in the twentyfour.
OF course there were other saloon
keepers who were Jealous. They were
making up stake purses for the district
leader, paying blackmail to the police
captain and Tipping extra dollars to
the ward men, and they felt sore be-
cause they had to obey the law in a
measure. They growled and grumbled
and threatened, but when they became
annoying the police captain took a lit
tie promenade and said to them in
turn:
''No more of this or you'll get the
grand sky high!' ~"
They shut up. No saloon keeper with
an ounce of brains in his head will de-
fly police captain. One tries it now
and then, and between the captain and
the brewer he is put out of business
within fortnight. ft
The Old Home had been running two
months when a row occurred there one
night. and a man had his neck broken.
1t could easily have been shown at the
cOroner's inquest that he broke his own
neck. but it was not necessary. A
ward man and patrolman fixed all
that. They had just dropped in by &C
cident at the moment andsthey testi4
fed that the deceased pulled gun and
Lest his, life In the struggle TO make
use of it, y
InSa few days, a 5hayseed tried to
make the police believe be had been
robbed OF $500 while admiring the cost
II mirrors iii the Old Home. but they
gave him three days in dark cell. and
shipped him bome'a sadder and q wiser
man. $40 s. +
Within a year the newspapers brief
ly chronicied many happenings at
o'Geegan's.. One or two of them
brought O'Geegan before the coroner
and the courts. That put him to some
/ little trouble, but his prestige remained
undimmeda a-&A& "a F
1t was almost three years from the
3 sunburst opening of his saloon before
Terrence O'Geegan found himself in
4 hole. With the aid of hts pull he had
successfully defied. law and order in
4 every direction. Now and then a friend
confidentially advised him to check a
bit, but Terry had patted him on the
shoulder and told him ii was breath
thrown away. He was carrying the
police and the courts in his vest peck
{ ct, and what could happen to him?
Something did happen, however. but
to this day it is spoken of as an acct
dent or a series of accidents. A stran-
ger entered the place one night and
gave Terry some Zip. Terry was
'off' that night, and he struck the man
blow that stretched him dead. It SO
happened that green patrolman was
on the beat that night, and he was
idiotic enough TO arrest Terry. 1t also
happened that there were four or FIVE
men In the place who didn't regard
murder as humorously as a game Of
hOpscotch, and they were ready TO
testify.
"Tt won't amount to anything, of
hOurse," said Terry's friends as he went