The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-27


there If he is beaten in Nebraska. He
contends that he is held here without
! due process of law and that the man
ner in which he was delivered to the
Nebraska authorities was in legal ef-
feet equivalent to a kidnapping. He
! insists that the warrant under which
the Virginia authorities turned him
over was not issued under the great
seal Of that state and that this irreg-
| ularity makes his Impeachment here
| illegal.
Killed q Brother Lawyer
Mcintyre, who is IS years of age, is
a brilliant conversationalist whose
equal in repartee is hard to find He
has an excellent education, is a fine lin
guist and has remarkable memory,
being able to quote every line of Burns
poems, all Of Scots Lady of the
Lake" and many other English lyric
poems. He was born in southern Tex
| as and when the civil war began en-
| tered the confederate army, where he
became noted for his nerve and daring
bravery
After the war he settled as a lawyer
in FL Paso Tex, and it is there that
the best work of his life was done. He
was elected district attorney and held
the position for many years. Later he
received an appointment in the legal
department of the United States for
the Texas jurisdiction. But one day
Mcintyre and a fellow lawyer, as hot
headed as himself, got into a dispute
in the courtroom, and before the quar-
rel was over Mcintyre had killed his
opponent.
He was acquitted of murder after
long trial, but he found he was no
longer popular in the community and
that his former friends avoided him.
He took to drink for consolation Fin
ally, because of his fluent Spanish he
secured an appointment under the pro-
visional United States government in
the Philippines. In 1900 he returned
! home, and for more than three years
| lived as a respectable lawyer in Ten
nessee, where an old army comrade
was chief justice Of the supreme court.
Throws Honor to the Dogs.
In 1904 Mcintyre left Tennessee and
embarked on a genuine confidence tour
Between Sept. 20 and Dec. 25 he mad
passed forged checks at at least four
| teen banks in the United States and
Mexico, his last feat being the obtain
ing of $500 on bogus paper at the
American bank in Mexico City. After
that he took a boat for Cuba, but
Havana was under yellow-fever quar-
antine and the steamer changed is
course and sailed for New York city.
| On the way up it stopped at Nor
| folk, Va, to coal up, and while there
Mcintyre persuaded a bank cashier
| who had never seen him before to adj
vance him $3.50 on a forged check.
When the steamer reached New York,
Mcintyre was arrested at the dock on
| two complaints, one from Norfolk, and
| the other from Mexico City. By his
| minute knowledge of international and
| domestic law he managed to wriggle
| out of the Mexico affair, but ne was
forced to go to Virginia, and served
year in the penitentiary there for his
little conversation with the bank cash.
| Ter at Norfolk.
When he walked out Of the Rich
mond prison, expecting to be a free
man. he was taken into custody by
Sheriff L. G. Mote of Sheridan county,
Nebraska. who had been sent there
| with requisition papers at the instiga-
ton of Captain Fisher of Chadron,
who had been keeping track Of Nc
Intyre ever since he had been feeced
out of $3.50.
| The two had reached Nebraska, and
were near Rushville on the way 10
Chadron when Mcintyre, whose feet
were shackled, leaped through car
window. The train was going at about
twenty miles an hour. The sherin
promptly stopped the train and after
four-hour chase, succeeded in recap
turing his prisoner, who expressed
deep disgust with a country in which