Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1913-06-26
Dandy Jim
By ALICE dIEEvER

| wearing boiled Shlrt. was very
good man. but he had very bed luck
He was walking on a trail in the
Rocky mountains from a prospecting
tour to Denver and was feeling very
happy because he had dug up some
quartz that he believed to be valuable
and was going down to the city to
have II assayed.
Besides a pocketful Of nuggets, Jim
had considerable dust about him. and
be made up his mind that as soon as
he reached the stage road he would
look out for a coach and buy a ride.
But before he got there he met n man
on an iron gray horse, and the idea oc.
CURED 60 him that he would buy the
animal and ride to Denver.
Want to sell that critterf" he asked
the rider
What you want 60 give for himr'
Twenty dollars In dust" Jim Of.
fered that to start n trade. He
thought the horse worth three or four
times that amount.
"Doner' said the man. nimbly leap.
ing on the horse.
Jim looked his beast over and could
not find anything the matter with him.
so he mounted and continued his Jour.
ney. lie hadn't gone more than a
mile before he was surrounded by
dozen men, each man pointing a re-
volvcr az him and calling on him 20
surrender.
"Git or my horsel' said one Of the
men.
Well, 60 make long story short, Jim
had paid for stolen horse. But Il
didn't avail anything for him 20 tell
how he came by t. for he was not
known TO any OF the party. and what
no said was considered n very thin
story. He was taken down the noun.
tain 20 n town where the owner OF the
horse and tho rest OF the party lived TO
be dealt with. n not according 20 law.
az least 10 be tried before Judge Lynch.
Dandy Jim was n good looking chap
and not over twenty-five years old. lie
was confined In n room In the house
OF the owner Of the stolen horse. and
n young girl hanging up clothes In the
garden saw him Standing nc the win.
dow looking melancholy and hand.
some. Either OF these features In a
nan Il enough 90 win girls heart.
and the two together are Irresistible
How this young woman. who was
tho niece Of the owner OF the house
and was called Mag. made the nc.
qunintanco Of Dandy Jim was conald.
cred n mystery boy the simple people
OF the town. though Il N easily &C.
for on the theory OF "love
laughs nc locksmlths" BE this as Il
may, she had n conference with him
unknown 60 any one and set her wits
10 work 60 free him from his sad con.
Iiition. Jim was 20 be- given n fair
trial before Judge Lynch the next
morning. which meant that he would
be swung or by noon.
Tint night Mag made a second theft
n the horse-though she put him back |
In the stable before any one knew OF
his having been taken-and rode Ave /
miles 10 the sheriff OF the county ana
legged him 10 interfere IN the illegal
rial and hanging that were 20 take
ilucc the next morning Mays noti
icntion was not official. and the sher-
n WINS not disposed 20 snye the necks
u horse thieves unless compelled 90 do
10 officially when Mag failed IN this
he begged the sheriff 60 give her an
rider for the body Of Dandy Jim, and
he sheriff 20 get rid OF her granted her
equest The officer was not an edu,
nted mnn and asked Mag 90 write
he order She wrote. give the body
4 the horse thief 10 the bearer" and
u signed his name as sheriff 20 II. with
is official seal.
Mag rode back with her paper ana
he next morning knocked at the door
{ n young man who had recently come
D town from the east and had hung
ut his shlngle as an attorney. She
old him that she had been 20 the 9
herlf 20 ask him 90 Interfere. but
nd failed. All she could get out Of
I'm was an order for the horse thlers
ody that she might bury Il decently
ouldnt the lawyer do something 10
I'VE the mans lifef
The young man asked 20 see the or.
er for the horse thlefs body. and as
bon MS he had read II he sat up and
'ok notice.
This Is habeas corpus" he said.
"A whatl" asked Mag.
Hut the lawyer made no reply. lie
Il down by table and sprinkled a
{ OF Latin words over the order, put
the horse thlefs name-whlch he :
u from Mag-and his own name, and I,
hen he got through with Il II was !
o most formidable legal document \
at had ever been seen In those parts. y
Q had scarcely finished when through r.
window Dandy Jim was seen being {
4 10 a shed near by for trial.
He was convicted before the lawyer
uld get ready TO go to his defense.
ID the Judge was pronounclng sen. 4
nee when the former approached the 4
urt and said; 4
Your honor, hereby present an g
Ter Of habeas corpus 10 this case !,
pm the sheriff" =
rhe sherifrs name. backed by his =
Al and the sprinkllng OF Latin words n
IA tOo mueh for tho oou,,,t.... - n