The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-02

Last Saturday morning, Attorney
Crull of Roundup was arraigned be
fore Judge Cheadie on an Information,
charging him with placing a bet on /.
horse race. While pleading guilty.
Mr.. Crull expressed the deep humiiia-
ton caused him by the unfortunate
predicament, says the Fergus County
Democrat. He is a worthy resident of
the Musselsheil metropolis and showed
that he is not only game enough IT,
take his medicine but is also talented
enough to afford the court and as
sembled attorneys some genuine mer-
riment.
Substantial excerpts from Mr.. cruils
address are as follows:
Explains Situation.
MAY it. please the court. I have a
few brief words to say, not in my de-
Tense. sir. nor i'm palliation of any oil
Tense l NAV have committed To brins
me to the humil!ating position | now
occupy. but | do sincerely desire to
offer the court a short explanation as
to why / am now before this honor
able presence suppliant for its Glenn
ency
1T was on a balmy Sunday after
noon in the month of October. NAV 1t
please the court. that as | wendell my
way to a meeting of the Epworth
league in the beautiful, bustling me-
tropoiis of the imperial Musselshell
valley. l was so unfortunate as to meet
a party of my friends who were also
going In the same direction to a horse
race. Your honor. / remember now
how the sun bathed our little city in
a brilliant opal sheen. how the brac.
ing winds from the west stirred my
fast aging pulses at the thought tina,
I, too. might be IA witness and partic-
ipant as 1t were to that noblest and
most exciting of all the sports yet in.
vented by mankind to separate tn.
sucker from his money. and. forget
ting for the moment nay obligation as
a Christian gentleman, l forsook the
prosaic path of rectitude to follow in
the serpentine and deeply beaten trail
that leads eventually to degradation
and humiliation.
Spirit Of Chance.
II have noticed. your honor. that in
every new city, rising In power and
affiuence in our great westiand, as Is
now the modern little city of Roundup,
the spirit of chance permeates the very
beginning of every progressive resident
of such city 1t seems as II the
builder Is always and ever "A devotee
of Dame Fortune. ready to stake his
last dollar on his judgment that he
may win.
"As would have you understand,
Rorndup Is a glaring exemplification
of this proven fact. We arrived at the
race track. your honor. and there be-
fore me and around me was gathered,
I'm gallant array. the beauty and chiv-
airy of the Miracle OF the Mussel-
she'll There were rich men. poor n.ef.
beggarmen. strong in the anticipa-
tions of things to come. wise'in their
day and generation. rfien that hooked
like horse thieves. men who were ant.
IRE horse thieves. and a, few honest
men-all the natural concomitants or
a horse race in these decadent days.
There Was q Horse Race.
And there was a horse race.
"Prancing before me. up and down
the track. I saw the Pride of For
syth.' fle.ter than the wind, more
beautiful than the gaZelle, and more
promising to some there than the
mines of Golconda. Also. the irwin
chile. unheaten and unbeatable Dixy.
And here. your honor, was where
fell ave. fell harder than e'er Lucifer
fell And. your honor, they were ready
for the start Even honest men and
beggarmen. in that assembly were
ready To wage their all on the out
come of this. one of the greatest speed
contests vet recorded on the mnsty
pages of history.
And sir. witnessing such a scene,
Lives there "A man with soul so dead
Who to himself has never said
Here is where ] get even
on my whole life
sir. ! frisked myself and found that
| was the humble but honest possessor
OF twenty six. count 'em. twenty
simoleons. and l played the chunk on
the Pride of Forsyth.
Some narrators have said TIA,