Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03

not take the jury long to ind him guilty,
md then he was ordered to be hanged,
Before the hanging Job was carried out
The prisoner was asked If he had any pray
ers to say or last words to leave before
the sentence of the court carried into
effect.
We'll that fellow started off on a long,
rambling story Of What an innocent child
he had been all his life, and the like.
Finally the gang began to see that he was
talking against time, and then they got
suspicious that he had a reason, and when
the suspicion got strong enough he was
hanged forthwith. He had hardly got
through kicking before his wife rode up on
horse covered with foam and she had
two sx-shooters. She told US that she and
her husband. the aforesaid bad man. had an
agreement. II was that IL he was ever
caught and he knew what that would
mean, she was TO come and shoot him.
Most men would rather be shot than
hanged. They think hanging is too much
like a dogs death.
Tough and bloody Days.
Those were tough and bloody days
sometimes. why, / know of lots Of saloons
that kept a blanket for no other purpose
than TO carry out the dead men in. sa-
loon fight was generally over in a second.
There would be a few words sometimes
even the words would be omitted, the
crack of a pair of shooting irons, and then
the blanket would be brought In and the
| body carried out of the bar room, where
| II was apt to offend delicate guests. Then
/ the dances used 20 see lots OF shooting.
Those dance shooting affairs were generally
caused by women. At most OF the dances
! you would find bad women bad men and
| b5d xrhfe nd n aurft al
/ combination when it is mixed up, and it
was no wonder that a few men would be
! buried the next morning. A shooting affair
at dance only lasted few minutes, and
| then the dancing would be resumed,
/ I'm all my experience / found that the
safest way 90 keep out OF trouble was TO
leave the shooting arms where they were
safe, never carried a gun in town, be-
J cause it wasn't safe. We all carry them
when we're out on the trail but the wise
men leave them of when they go to town
/ Now, / used to know lot OF men who
carried two guns, and even a knife, but
they're all dead now. Then used TO know
lot OF men that carried one gun all the
time, and they're pretty nearly all dead
And l might say that l knew a lot OF
chaps who never carried a gun at all. and
strange 20 say. they're all in the land OF
AlF AAFlhb YET lt ltdFul OF II ali II
simple The chap with the two guns was
moro apt 70 get into a fight than the mar
| with one, and the man with one more 50
than the fellow withouf any az all The
man without the gun did not have III,
tendency to get into trouble.
From my years Of residence i'm the ives
and the places where the bad men -four
ished ! might say that the shooting affairs
were the result OF three things. The frs
reason was one man taking a woman away
from another; the second, jumping claims
and the third, grabbing money in care
games. Once in awhile a fight would re
suit over some big personal spite, but a.
a general thing the man that did not mi,
up with any OF the three reasons wal
pretty safe
/ "On the trail we all carry guns. but tn
real gun man wears his all the time. an,
eats and sleeps with it, Many men carr,
guns about the town even yet, but in som
of the towns where they have been both
cred with fellows shooting them up, the,
have passed ordinances against the gun
being carried about OF course, n
stranger wearing gun was TO com
through ana acted pesceably, he would no
be annoyed, but IL he began TO act stranE
he would receive gentle hint to move o.
and be good.
! The fellows are getting good now. ar,
u they ATs given 70 wearing irons, the