The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-10
course Of treatment.

mann was one OF the kind our Cassius from
FL Paso cnvies. He weighed about 500 and
he had a paunch on him like the porte
cochere OF Hudson river palace. HIS
obtrusive front was always the subject
for good-natured Jokes, but they didn't
worry him at all. In fact, he wns rather
proud OF IL. Well as 1 said, Liedermann
and Thomas were in the saloon drinking.
but not together Thomas was standing
at the end OF the bar farthest from tho
door. while Lledermann was about the
middle. The Dutchmen greeted mo With
his usual friendliness and asked me TO
take a drink with him. an invitation
which I readily accepted.
Now. TO understand what follows you
must know that the bar was simply
plain box counter with straight up-and-
down front, and that line drawn from
morning dram would have 10 poss
through Liedermonn and me. We had
been chatting a few minutes. had finished
our drinks, and had turned around with
our backs 10 the bar, when Judge Hamil-
ton entered. We didn't have TO be told
what was coming. Before YOU could bat
your eye the two enemies had their guns
out and commenced shooting. l slid to the
floor and lay there on my back-I was
young then and thin-but Liedermann was
too scared TO think OF anything but his
precious stomach and l never shall for
get how funny he looked as he stood there
dancing with excitement while he did his
level best TO pull his paunch in out Of
range, and all the time shouting;
shoot around, shoot around"
"Hc wanted a curved ball" suggested
the red-headed man as the laughter sub
sided But how did IT end2 Did they hit
the Dutchmang'
mo- they managed to shoot around.
but when tho battle ended both the law
yers wore down. Thomas was dead. Every
shot Hamilton had fred had made n
wound that alone would have been NOR
tai. and he had cmptied his revolver be-
fore he dropped on tho other hand, tho
J,,l hal ta1a oh hi1 oh hot
carried him off about week afterward," ="
''.rhat reminds me OF curious expe-
rience ] had number OF years ago" said
quiet passenger who had taken no part
w. the conversation. 1T reminds me. not
because there was any shooting In II. but
because OF the amount of this too, too
solid flesh involved, was for a good
many years an internal revenue agent
and my territory was the mooushine coun-
try Of East Tennessee and Kentucky. At
perched upon the summit Of one or the
highest mountains In tho southeast cor
ner of Kentucky, woman known as Mol
size. People In the neighborhood said
she weighed over 600 pounds and l am
suro she didn't weigh less than 800, She
cabin was practically inaccessible No
road led to It and no fourfooted animal
except goat could ascend by the only
path that reached IT. At the top was a
little patch OF four OF five acres OF
ground. which Mollie cultivated herself;
for she was strong and active, despite her
size Nobody seemed TO know how long
she had lived en- tho mountain nor how
she got there. nor could any one renem
Der that she had ever descended from her
perch. Whatever her size might have
been In former years, II was quite evident
that at the time I speak OF she was COM
PEELED to stay UP there. for, while she
might get down. she could never get
back
well, we had received several reports
OF rnoonshining In that neighborhood. and
| spent week In the vicinity trying to
locate the stnl, but without result. Gu
riosity led me to climb the mountain to
visit Molle Jackson, and It was ono OF
the hardest jobs ever tackled; but no.
ticed that the path was well worn and
I wondered why Molle should receive as
many visitors as this fact would Indicate
Still I suspected nothing. I found her
seated In an immense chair made of rough
pine boards and che did not rise durir &
my call: but she greeted me cordially, and
we talked for some little time, the wonan n
impressing me as much by her shrewd-
ness as by her proportions,
"a few weeks after my return to my
headquarters at Knoxville 1 received in