Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-05-02
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By F. a. MICHEL

medut Suuueuly OOrn love. lie COW.
! boy knew something about these hot
blooded girls Of the south, these greas
ers, and didn't care to have any Of
them fall IN love with him. Either
| the love must be returned or the man
loved was liable to have tarantula
| put in his bed or knife In his hear,
or something of the kind.
After selling Bucklin the posy the
Mexican girl went up to the bar and
stood beside a big fellow-Jenks, who
was about rs bad specimen as the
country produced. and the bad ones
were very bad-and asked him to buy
q posy. Looking down and seeing the
| girl beside him, instead Of buying g
posy he gave her cuff and. with an
oath. told her to git along" Bucklin
didn't like to interfere. for in the first
place he expected to either kill or be
| killed If he did, and in the second place
he didn't wish to become the girls
champion, for If he did he might not
get rid of her without trouble. But
there was something in him that
couldn't abide jerks act, and he
sprang for him from behind and tum-
bled him on the floor. Then, holding
him down with one hand. be whipped
out his gun with the other and, press
ing it against his cheek. said to him:
I've done this for what you did to
the girl. Your life is mine. I'll give
it to you If you'll agree before these
witnesses to keep the peace with me. :"
The man. knowing that it was death
or consent, gave his word for peace.
| There was an unwritten law in that
part of the country that applied in
such case as this. and jerks knew
that If he killed the cowboy another
cowboy or some other person would
shoot him from behind. Being re-
strained frsm killing the cowboy him.
self. he concocted scheme whereby
; some one else would do the job for
him. He stole horse ard, leading 1t
to where Bucklin was asleep alone by
, a campfire. pickcted the animal be-
. side him. Rucklin was tried by the
vigilance committee and sentenced to
be hanged, but the night before he.
tsssgas TO- be executed the little greaser
girl collected lot of vipers Of a poi
sonous kind and, throwing them
among the guard. scattered them, thus
giving Rucklin an opportunity to light
T But the end of the story is not yet.
With feminine divining powers the
greaser girl understood that jerks had
got Bucklin into the horse stealing
trouble. One day while walking along
q road she saw the body Of g man ".
ing on the ground Since there was
no hole in him SIZE concluded he had
died a natural death, A stroke Of
genius 0:s,.:::: !. !! ) her. Taking ont a
little pistol she Carried III her bosom.
she fired 4, bullet into the dead mans
brain. th'l, tu,X things she found in
his pockets ,.:;:c Was quite enough
to identify him-then awaited her op-
portunity to put them in jerks pock-
cts. Having succeeded in this, she
went off and told a citizen that she
had seen jerks murder man and
rifle his pockets
The recipient of this secret told 9th
: ers and several men went to where
the body lay. then proceeded to jerks
and interviewed him. The visitors
searched his garments, and jerks was
astonished at the result
Unfortunately for jerks, every one
in that region wanted to get rid Of him..
The bullet hole il, the dead mans head
did not indicate that one Of jerks enor-=
nous bullets had passed through it,
but 1t was suggested that he might
have screened himself by using DIFF
feren, weapon. And did not the ar
ticles that had been taken from the
mans pocket prove the murder7 For
1t was soon learned who the man was
and that the things belonged to him.
It has been said that ''the Wish IL IA
Their to the thought and the same per-
tains to evidence Every one wished
! jerks to he proved guilty 50 that he
I, could be g2t rid Of. and on this ac-
count there was little trouble In con-
! victing him. :s., ....s=
Meanwhile the little greaser girl
went about selling posies. looking as
innocent as dove Some who had
| seen the fracas III her behalf suggest
| ed that she. had nut mp n job on jerks,
but the idea TINT such dull child
could have invented such q plan was
generally secuted jerks sent for her,
{ and begged her Il, own that she had.
lied. She looked more stupid than:
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