The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09

tperfec' stranger, and hop him out In front
Of him, same's II he'd bin shield.
II suppose 1t is what the stranger got for
bein' around It's always the outside,s,
worst Of 1t In these free-for-all fghts, same'e
you, whom you come down the main street
Of that little HaTrodsburg town. all scared
to death. backin' up against the wall OF a
in that there Gslliger. fsht we was talkip'
about. It's q blessed wondAh you dtdnt
get shot, but I'm glad you didn !. for one,
But to resume, as say. Scott grabbed
this stranger BY the neck and nelo MN
up In front Of him to wsrd on sne snotS;
about get held up In mo- ways than one.
Yes. You're right about that.
well. Dave Colson didn't do a thing
but shoot plum through the stranger-his
name was found out at the inquest y De
Dsmaree. believe-and into that fellah
THAT was a mighty good pistol Dave "s
the make OF it, but couldn't.
Then you see perfectly well that the
sSieId He was dead S do 10 ns 50 Scott.
he dropped hiR and ran.
1T was about time, because Colson
had done got up his dander good SIND line
He shot him as he ran down the steps.
too, since come to think OF it. in the back
in such way that II some special providence
hadn't had an eye on him, he I'd droppNa
dead there and then. But he didn't. Aftan
some months In a hospital I believe they
say he got well. 1t was a miracle.
aAnd that want all. He shot anothah
man In the calf Of the leg, all by mistake
they was standin round appa' entity thick
as flies In the summer time. lookin on
and this fellah didn't do nothin' but drop
dead in his tracks. And it want the shot,
att
thin.
4And what business did man with heart
trouble 90 bad he couldn't stan little
scratch in the calf Of the leg. In the heshy
paint that shouldn't a hurt him more.n
iiea bite, have standin' idlin' about IN a
Kentucky barroom, where a fight was liable
to OCCUR mos any minute Of the day or
night?
II believe he disabled or killed five or
six that whirl, Dave did, but that was all
provooation for dom that? You've lived
in Kentucky long enough to be a good
Judge. or co'se he did.
"Aftah that they let Dave Colson alone.
He'd killed EN- all of, you say? There
want nobody lef' to modest him? Well.
thin to do with it.
aBut the saddest paht Of it all is this, that
the flist blow the young fellah Scott gave
to Dave was the cause az his death. IL what
brought on his insanity. as said beto
He was, took sick and the nuss lef him
a minnit, then he got up and dressed and
etahted out. Hitched up his hoss and went
drivin' all by himself.
Il believe, now l come to think Of it.
that that there nuss went to sleep. !hat
was how Dave got free to 60 out drivin
and shoot himself.
Il was sorry to heah how he shot himself
in the he'd. fust shootln' his boss. 1t was
a sad thing to heah about. 1t was sort
Of pity, too, a. longs he was boun' and de-
termined to shoot himsef. he didn't think
to spaah the boss.
aHe was a mighty good man. Dave was.
one OF the best and mildost mannahd men
you evan saw in your life, meetin' him
socially.
Il nevah knew him to draw a gun on
man in social conversation in my life.
Nevah.
and he wouldn't "a done it that one time,
IL he hadn't had the ve'y strongest kind OF
provocation.
sPore Daye!'