Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1912-02-29

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forgot all about them in rummaging
among the big stone vertebrae.
Gents said Kate. hes lunatic."
What makes " think soT' asked the
sheriff.
Didn't y hear what he said about
them stones; He's got an idee into his
head that 10000 years ago some var
mint or other, dragon mebbe, seven
ty feet long fell down a well. What
more do y want for TO make him out
a crazy MANI
''Oh, katep' exclaimed the owner of
the horse. Its you that's gone daft
or you're trying to save his neck. !
don't know witch. He's been caught
in the act and is playing 1t on us.
Where did he get the talk about
dinosaurs 2" asked one man, who. be-
ing better educated than the rest. mad
read of extinct mammoths. Horse
thieves don't know anything about fos-
sils.''
Come on. Glenn" said the owner Of
the stolen horse Il call upon you as
sheriff to arrest the man and take him
in for trial
''Y' won't have much trouble dom
that" remarked Kate, "seein' he hain't
got no weapon Does boss thieves go
about without guns?'
This was a staggerer, and the sher-
If was debating in his mind what to
do when Upton finished his investiga-
lions ant said he was going back to
the settlement. So they all rode back
together, the supposed horse thief be
ing forced to ride ahead. KATE rode
beside him. She seemed very much
troubled at the position he occupied
with reference to the stolen horse aud
was revolving in her mind some deS-
perate method of eXtricating him If
she failed to convince others of his
mnacy. AS for the professor, he was
unconscious of mis- danger In any
event, he never dreamed that the pen
atty for horse stealing was the same
as for murder
Nov. see here Kate said to him,
when they get Y back to the set
tlemept they'll take Y before Judge
Lynch Y mustn't be surprised at
any evidence | may give in"
Upton was so wrapped up in the
dragon that had fallen down the
well" that her words made very little
impression on him. When they reach
ed the settlement, true enough. he was
taken before Judge Lynch, and num-
her Of men. new to the case, were i'm
paneled as a jury. the sheriff regard
ing those who were with him when
he made the arrest as witnesses. The
latter were examined in turn and told
the same story. which was simply that
the horse had been missed, they had
lit out on a chase and had come upon
the prisoner and the girl. the horse
grazing near by. When they had CIV
en- their testimony Kate took the
stand.
81 was ridin' along" she said, when
l seen the little man ahead. From
the way he talked made up my mind
from the first that he was weak in the
upper story, just the kind Of a man to
git on a boss he seen in q stable or
hitched to a post without KNOWN
what he was dom He talked about
yarmint 10000 years old that had
fell into a we'll He didn't have sense
enough not to so around without a
gun ! thort It wouldn't do to let him
go about alone, so / went with him
If he was on a boss he knowed he'd
stolen he'd a rid mighty hard Instead
o that every now and then he'd git
often his animal and down on his
hands and knees, workin' at the stones.
He brought out q hammer and KEEP
breakin' 'em and putin the pieces in
his pockets. Y'll find 'em there now"
The prisoner was called upon to emp
ty his pockets and produced some
twenty pounds Of stone fragments.
II reckoned,' the witness proceeded.
that he suffered some disease when
child that KEEP his brain from CROWN
Small boys pockets are always full O.
tops and things, and the mans is wus
yet, bein' loaded down with nothin
but stones. Then when we came to
the well where the dragon had fell In
be looked M and said a pra'ar Hoss
thieves amt givin TO prayin The
poor feller needs to be sent back home" /
"Will you see that be is taken care
of" said the Judge
Yes"
Discharged" was the laconic dis
missal of the case. and Kate led the
professor away as if he had been a
child J
Some months later the professor re
turned, superintendent gang Of Ia 7
borers engaged in diggiug Mn the bones
OF the dinosaur and shipped Them east
When they were mounted in the mn I
scum Kate. at the professors invita-
ton. visited the institution and was
surprised at the monster She saw
there.
BY this time the professor had he.
come cognizant Of the fact that bv
her adroitness in proving him before
Judge Lynch 20 be a lunatic she baa
saved his life. and he felt duly CRATE.
ful He persuaded her 10 remain in
the east, sent her to school,. and she
learned as much in three ye9rs rs some
girls would in half dozen Then the
professor married her she X now al
most as enthusiastic oypr ~, t,,,.-- Il.