The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15
Arizona Bad Man" Who Made
Gun Play al the Western Cop
per King Last Month Leaps
Into the Breach.
ARRESTED FOR HIS PAINS.
His Intervention. However. Pre-
vents Meeting Between Bellig- e
erents and Incident Closes
With Final LawSongram.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. Dec. 14-Nobody is dead yet
In the Lawson-Greene feud. and the only
mar who made a real gun play is In
jail A bad man from Arizona, james
w. Goodman. is he, and the copper Colonel
had him put in the calsboose down at the
Torbs for "butting in" at q range OF
three miles.
Lawson of Boston and Greene OF New
York were tonight riding their verbal
caytses over ranges SO miles apart and
shooting up the air with linguistic re-
paaters. II IL had not been for Goodman
interfering and renewing unpleasant
threats, the Colonel might have been in
Boston at just thirty minutes after ,
o'clock this afternoon. waiting until he
sSw the whites of the Lawson optics.
Feari Bill Greene doesn't know how to
spell it. Didn't he sit on the ore piles
down in Mexico with a gun in each hand
and a windlass at, his back, daring all
creation. and part of Yuma to take his
copper away from him He has one re-
volver that has SO many notches on the
barrel that when a bad man gets one look
at it he feels AZ il he had spent a year
IN a relOrmaIOry.
Goodman last November rode up town
pressing a gum against the copper
king. See here.s said Colonel Bill. IF
you shoot that thing and l find it out
there will be harsh words"
With that. he handed Goodman over to
the police. and n Judge. who know that
Colonel wasn't afrStd of anything.
suspended sentence on the galoot. telling
him tina IL be did II q the court
would not be responsible for the conse-
Quences.
GOODMAN PLAYS =.
PART OF THE INTERLoPER.
What does Goodman do as soon as he
reads that the Colonel had to kill a man
in Boston but come around again with
his troubles When there is earnest
shooting to be done it isn't pleasant to
have an outsider poking a shooting iron
at YOU and saying: How about me
first?" It's enough to make even a crack
shot nervous.
Colonel Bill was so annoyed over the
whole business that tonight he said:
Consider the Lawson incident closed"
Lawson to-day showed as much nerve
a the Colonel did. He did not leave Bos-
ton, as his friends said he would. but re-
manned on his own ranch. The boys
stayed up all night 50 as to nave grand
stand seats when the massacre began.
Lawson saw there would not be room
for everybody. for the COW punchers were
riding In from Newton, Belmont and Cam
bridge and hobbhng their bronchos In
Boston Common
He shifted the fghting place to the old
S~tatehouse, where there are marble pillars
and steps and such things to prevent the
shooting from being too embarrassing and
dead sure, and then he sent the nine-thou-
sandth telegram to Colonel Bill. 1t was
like this:
LAWSON GETS LAST WORD;
GREENE FAILS TO APPEAR
w. C. Greene. On Board 10 O'Clock
Train, New York to Boston Your
wire that you would be at my State
street office at half past 3 received.
AS you seem anxious to do your
business out in public, / will meet
you at the time named in State street,
front of old Statehouse. and 1 herewith
notify you that I will do all the denoun-
cling that will be done"
Five minutes before the appointed time
a large u~ndertaker's wagon drove I'D. fol-
lowed by a man in a black silk hat, with
side whiszers to match.
rs there room for two ?" asked one of
the Newton outfit.
There is" said his Drearheer. His
reply was drowned In a long-drawn cheer.
Colonel Greene is here" cried half 4
dozen men, at once running up the steps
of Lawson's office.
Not at all" replied Lawson. 'sHe
IL appearing in New York against a man
who threatened to shoot him He won't