Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-10-10
Dandy Jim
b. ALICE cHEEvER

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and was going down 10 the city to
have II assayed
BESIDES a poeketful OF nuggets. jim
had considerable dust about him. aud
be nude ~ his mind that as soon as
he reached the stage road he would
( look out for a coach and buy ride
! But before be got there he met a man
on an iron gray horse, and the idea o..
CURED 10 him that be would buy the
animal and ride to Denver
Want 10 sell that eritter?" he asked
the rider
What you want to give for him?"
Twenty dollars In dust" Jim Of.
fered that TO start trade He
thought the horse worth three or four
times that amount.
Done" said the man. nimbly leap.
ing Off the horse
jim looked his beast over and could
not find anything the matter with him.
so he mounted and continued his Jour
ney. He hadn't gone more than a
mile before be was surrounded by a
dozen men. each man pointing a re-
volver at him and calling on him to
surrender.
"Git off my horsew said one of the
men
Well TO make long story short. Jim
bad paid for stolen horse But it
didn't avail anything for him to tell
how he came by &: for he was not
known to any Of the party. and what
he said was considered a very thin
story He was taken down the noun
tain 20 a town where the owner Of the
horse and the rest Of the party lived to
be dealt with, II not according to law
at least TO be tried before Judge Lynch.
Dandy Jim was a good looking chap
and not over twenty-five years old He
was confined In room in the house
Of the owner Of the stolen horse. and
a young girl hanging up clothes in the
garden saw him standing at the win
dow looking melancholy and hand
some Either Of these features In a
man is enough to win a girls heart
md the two together are irresistible
How this young woman, who was
The niece Of the owner of the house
and was called Mag. made the ac.
Iuaintance Of Dandy jim was consid-
,red mystery by the simple people
II the town. though ii is easily ac-
'0unted for on the theory of love a
acghs nt locksmiths" BE this as it
nay, she bad a conference with him
20 any one and set her wits
O work to free him from bis sad con
ihon Jim was 10 be given fair ,
rial before Judge Lynch the next
morning. which meant that he would ,
e swung off by noon
That night Mag made second theft
+ the horse though she put him back
] the stable before any one knew OF
is having been taken-and rode five
lilies to the sheriff of the county and
egged him to interfere in the illegal
ial and hanging that were to take
lace the next morning Mays noti-
cation was not official and the sher-
7 was not disposed to save the necks
horse thieves unless compelled to do
officially. When Mag failed in this -
lie begged the sheriff to give her an
der for the body Of Dandy Jim, and 70
e sheriff to get rid of her granted her m
quest. The officer was not an edu- Is
ted man and asked Mag to write p,
@ order. She wrote. Give the body in
the horse thief 10 the bearer" and on
signed his name as sheriff to ii. with 70
official seal W
Mag rode back with her paper and
2 next morning knocked at the door mr.
a Young man who had recently come m
town from the east and had hung m
/ his single as an attorney. She IN,
4 him that she had been to the of
srim 10 ask him to Interfere. but Is
4 failed. An she could get out Of
u was an order for the horse thief's
" that she might bury it decently
aldn't the lawyer do something to
e the mans life?
he young man asked to see the or
for the horse thief's body and as
N as he bad read It be sat up and
K notice
This is a habeas corpus" he said.
A what?" asked Mag
ut the lawyer made no reply He
down by table ana spfinkled
OF Latin words ovel the order. put
the horse thlefs name-w which he
from Mag--and his own name. and
IN ne got through with Il II was
most formidable legal document
/ had ever been seen Ia those parts
had scarcely Hnished when through h-n
'iudow Dandy Jim was seen being cra
10 shed near by for trial r.,
e was convicted before the lawyer ~
IA get ready 10 40 10 his defense, lar,
the Judge was pronouncing sen ,.t
,e when the former approached the ,nc,
RI and said:
four honor. hereby present an T,
ar Of haheas corpus Ia this case size
u the sheriff" dre'
he sherins name backed by his wsr
aud the sprlnklng OF Latin words. an
TOO mnch Tor the committee. aud post
irrcndered the prisoner
40 days later the real thief was ~