The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-19

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"sWhat On earth was the matter
with you'll exclaimed Lindsey. Why
didn't you have him arrested?'
ION what charger Heney shrugged
Right up to the day of the shooting
the papers ridiculed my body guard,
and if | had had Haas arrested they
would have yelled their heads off over
the terrible outrage and my cheap
'grand-standing.' To tell you the
truth, l didn't think Haas had the
nerve tc pull anything off. All
through the three trials the court
: room was full of the gangs real bad
men, and 1 reckon I'd got in the habit
of watching them. Anyway, I had
reached a sort of what's the use
stage. You ought to know how it is.
After the first week or two a mans
nerve naturally lets down-he comes
to see that if it's going to happen it's
going to happen, and all the watching
in the world won't help. OF course, I
saw Ruef and his attorneys going
white every now and then. Even the
judge took notice of their jumping and
lodging, and asked me what I thought
it meant.
"'WelI. after two weeks of constant
trying, Haas slipped Foley.s eye and
got into the chair right behind me
close enough to press the derringer
right against my head. You see, the
idea was to take no chances of just
wounding me. But 1 happened to be
laughing at the time. IT'D had my
jaws together l would have lost more
than my hearing in my right ear.
"A master SANDER judicially COM
mented Senator Cannon. BY far and
away the most successful lie that the
interests ever put across. It ~aIienat-
ed the sympathy of people who could
not have been reached n other way
1t caught me- shamefacedly con-
fessed n of the newspaper men.
Brand Whitlock and / talked it over at
the time and
And you though 1 was a brutal,
bullying, prosecutor who got what
was coming to him. Heney nodded.
Never mind apologizing. You had
plenty of good company. Wherever I
go | find honest people still believing
the lie-still half convinced that |
brought it all on myself"
Disreputable lies about himself
which Judge Lindsey recounted Mr..
Creel cites, and with the account c.
them be gives the three reformers'
simple statements of how impossible
it is to answer the lies and punish the
blackguards.
Judge Lindsey brought to that
luncheon" writes Mr.. CreeI, "a re-
cent copy CT an obscure weekly con-
tanning eight newspaper pages of af-
hdavits letters signed articles inter
views and editorials accusing him
Of everything from Incorporating
the courts postage stamps to 'outrag-
ing the constitutional rights of chill
dren, and traducing the fair name of
the state. He spread it out before
him with a patient smile. They're
putting a copy of this into every home
in town. he said. I hear that the
tramway people ordered a hundred
thousand copies. They're mailing
them all over the country
"Heney grinned. Did you ever see
the pamphlets they put out about me?'
"'You bet 1 did, Lindsey laughed.
They sent me all of them in order
that / might be no longer deceived in
you
He turned to Cannon. I had a let
ter the other day from a man in Utah
warning me against you, senator. He
inclosed a pamphlet that said you had
once stolen iewelry-among other
things
Cannon nodded, indiferently.f Are
they still circulating that?
/" But look here, judge n Of the
other guests broke in. These r af-
fdavits.' And he slapped the paper
with indignant hand. Can't you have
them prosecuted for perjury?
THE district attorney says not,
Lindsey explained. Not under the
laws of Colorado as he interprets
them. He holds that it isn't perjury
unless the cath is used in a court pro-
ceeding. / imagine they got that ruiz
ing before they printed. Besides, if !
start to sue, I'll have time for
anything else. And you ought to
know what chance I'd have in the