The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-05-19

| sheriff.
! Lewis had preceded Pussyfoot to
! Caney, and he at once went before a
| justice OF the peace and obtained a
warrant for JOhnson's arrest, charging
| him with the malicious destruction of
| property, to which was subsequently
added the charge of theft. He also
alleged that Johnson had introduced
| intOxicants into Kansas-Which was
| true enough, for the river of Whiskey
| certainly reached Kansas soil. Be
| sides, Johnson had samples of the
| stuff in his buggy, to be used as
| evidence. Consequently, hardly had
the buggy entered Caney than John
! son found himself under arrest, and
his prisoners were taken from him.
He demanded an immediate hearing,
which could not be refused, and il
took the judge only a few minutes to
decide that there vas no case against
him, or. at least, that the matter was
| outside his jurisdiction, inasmuch as
the raid had taken place beyond the
Jurisdiction of Kansas. This hoist the
prisoners with their own petard, the
joke being of course, that the Monte
Carlo had actually always been with
in the boundaries of the state of Kan
SaS.
Johnson was set free. AS has been
said, he never lets go. Within three
minutes Of obtaining his freedom he
once more had Elijah and Killion in
his possession. He took them down
to the railroad station, with the OBJ
ject of conveying them by train to
Vinita, where the United States owns
and operates a jail. But his arrest
had delayed him too long; the last
train to Vinita for the night was
gone. and Johnson found that he
would have to wait until morning for
the next one. Accordingly he placed
the two men in the lookup and went
to a hotel for the night.
One Of the city marshals Of Caney
was a man named Carr, who happened
to be a friend OF Johnson's. He had
a daughter, whose sweetheart was
night telephone operator At night,
when calls are few, gossip is apt to
pass along the wires between the OPP
orators and their friends. The young
fellow called up the girl, and, after
a number of intimate remarks which
have no bearing the story, Informed
her, in a casual way, that the prison
ers had telephoned for a lawyer to
hurry along and play a habeas cor
pus stunt to get the criminals out OF
JAIL" as Johnson phrased it.
The daughter told her father, and
Carr realized that Johnson was in
the way Of losing the results Of his
achievement. He rushed down to the
hotel where Pussyfoot was staying
and pulled him out of bed
Johnson, informed what was hap
pening, realized that if the "habeas
corpus stunt" could be pulled off, as
was most likely, anything might de-
velop, even an injunction restraining
him from again interfering with the
internal affairs of LeWis's kingdom.
1t would not take long to get the
place into running order again. 1t
was a perplexing position, and John
son remembered what the lawyer said
to the man in Jail. Anyway, he was
not taking any chances.
He dressed himself hurriedly and
sent an urgent summons to his dep
uty Keller. Then he telephoned for
a rig. Half an hour later he had the
rig, the deputies, and the prisoners.
He placed one man by his side,
handed over the other to Keller, and,
with the reins in one hand, his Colt
automatic in the other, he drove all
night through the darkness over the
rutty Kansas roads until he reached
Bartlesville at one o'clock In the
morning, whence train conveyed the
four to Vinita The outlaws were
speedily lodged in prison.
Il don't want to have anything
more to do with Kansas Justice said
Pussyfoot, when he had pulled off his
coup. THE next time they get me
they'll hold me, and 1 can't forsake
the Territory"
In order to ascertain who we're the
actual hackers of King Lewis, John
son held the money and the pistol
which he had taken, so that they
might make themselves known by re-
plevining them. They replevined
them, and proved to be two men
named Hicks and Kelley.
Il knew my kingdom couldn't last"
explained Lewis, as, comfortably pro-
vided with this worlds goods, he
strobe, a free man, upon free Kansas
soil. my place Of business was in
Kansas all the time. Those fellows
up there did not know It, They would
come down there and look at my
kingdom and watch me, but they were
very careful not to come beyond what
they thought was the boundary line,
and modest me. had them bluffed
all right, but l knew it was only
question Of time until they found that
l was working them, and then they
would have made trouble for me.
Il would have got away with the
bluff, only the Territory officials
thought it was their duty to come
up and raid me. They had no au-