Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-11-07

ing no attention to Philo's word
n. word know how il IS. When thi
teen inch Nannon bail hits you thei
d amt nothin left of you at all. your
lust banged all TO nothin'. You
d plumb gone. But when one inc
f. cannon ball hits you you've goI
chance TO live a minute or two maybe
When one inch cannon ball hits yo'
: you Iinger along for minute or two
and then you're ready for the under
taker. That's the difference between
!. thirteen inch cannon ball shootin you
+ and one inch cannon ball shootin
you. You got a longer time TO live
j after you get shot And rife ball Is
? | different too.
Il got Job of paper hangin' as soon
/ as can get away from here. said
Philo Gubb meaningly.
You got a job Of detectin' on hand
now" said old Gabe And. as | was
sayin'. rife ball acts different May
be it kills you the first shot. and maybe
you can hold three or four rife bullets
before you die. but If they keep on
shootin at you you get killed sooner or
later Probably five shots is all any
man could stand I guess that's
about it.
And then you come down to one OF
them little % caliber revolvers If he
don't hit you in the heart a murderer
could easy enough shoot at you TWEEN
ty-fve times with one of them little
COS before he killed you dead But
you'd be dead sooner or later. You
bet you would. It's just a matter of
the difference in what q man shoots
you with that makes the difference in
time.
"Of course be said agreeably. Il
don't expect no pea shooter to kill me
as quick as thirteen inch gun would
If you expect that you're unreasonable
There amt no sense into it. You cant
even expect pea shooter to kill man
as quick as a 90 revolver would You
got to give it more time. But the |
principle is just the same Shootin' is |
shootin You know how that pome |
goes:
The constant drip of water
Wears away the hardest stone.
And that's just as true of murderin' a
man with pea shooter
"YOu can take stone and chuck il
into a stone crusher. and it's cement in
a minute, or you can drip water on it.
and that takes some time. but the stone
IS goner sooner or later. If you want
10 murder a man quick you want TO
use a thirteen inch cannon. but muir
lerin' him with a pea shooter is just
Is sure. and it's safer. Maybe you
AVE to shoot hundred times with
yea shooter. or maybe you have to
boot thOusarfl times or a million
ines. dunno. for amt dead yet
Mt you kill him sooner or later You
et you do Dead as a doornail. Jus.
s. complete as if YOU used big can
on. And the beauty Of it is that no ,
ody knows you're committin' mur
err II anybody catches YOU and asks
on what you're dom you just say
)h. nothin'. Just shootin' peas. -"
Maybe that's So" agreed Philo =
ubb. 1T sounds reasonable. don't it: u
ut ] can't see no murder case in It d
lille you're alive The thing for me :
do is to wait until you're dead and !" q,
en- catch the Teller 1t amt murder u
It'll you're dead" q
1T amt. amt it?" sneered Old Gabe :
'ou'd wait until am dead. suppose. "
d then start out to catch the teller. J..
I'd you'd lose all the help / can give -
H. 1t amt often a detective can get ~,
corpse to help him like this. It's a
lnce | wouldn't miss if was de % %
tive You bet | wouldn't, And eu
N some day when drop dead from -