Judge Roy Bean - Law West of the Pecos There is nothing for Rangers to do but hold this rough element in subjection and control them. The majority of the railroad camps are in Pecos County. This immediate section being 200 miles from Fort Stockton , the nearest jurisdiction Court of Justice and the consequent minor offences go unpunished; but, I hope to remedy that in a few days by having a Magistrate appointed for the precinct. When it became known that a Justice of the Peace was wanted for the area, Roy Bean was quick to volunteer and on August 2, 1882, he became the only "legal authority" in the area. He first operated his "justice" out of his tent saloon in Vinegarroon . With the nearest court 200 miles away at Fort Stockton , he quickly became the self-proclaimed "Only Law West of the Pecos." Judge Roy Bean's s Jersey Lilly Saloon and Courtroom in Langtry , Texas . This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE! An unusual sort of "judge" from the beginning, one of his first judicial acts was to shoot up the saloon of a Jewish competitor.

Holding court in his saloon , he utilized a single law book -- the 1879 edition of the Revised Statutes of Texas . His methods of justice, carried out in his combination saloon /courtroom, were somewhat odd and always final. During construction of the bridge at Vinegarroon a structure collapsed and ten workers fell. Judge Roy Bean was called to the site to hold an inquest. Riding on a mule to the accident, he pronounced all ten men dead; however, only seven of them had actually been killed. When questioned on this point, the judge reasoned that the others would soon die and that he did not want to make the trip twice. Fortunately, for the three men, he was wrong, and they survived to tell the tale. By December, 1882, railroad construction had ended on the bridge and Vinegarroon was abandoned. Bean then headed northwest to the railroad camp of Eagle Nest (later called Langtry .) There, he quickly set up another tent saloon on railroad land, to the chagrin of Cezario Torres, who owned most of the land beside the railroad right-of-way.

He later built a wooden structure for his saloon, which he called the "Jersey Lillie" after the well-known British stage actress Lillie Langtry . Her real last name was actually Emilie Le Breton and she was not related to George Langtry, of whom the town was named. Bean used the saloon as his headquarters and courtroom, and continued his eccentric judicial antics. On one occasion when the body of a dead cowboy was found in the area, which held $40 and a six-gun, he charged the corpse with carrying a concealed weapon and fined it $40. On another case, when an an Irishman named Paddy O'Rourke was going to be tried for shooting a Chinese laborer, a mob of 200 angry Irishmen surrounded the courtroom and threatened to lynch Bean if O'Rourke was not freed. In response, Bean ruled that "homicide was the killing of a human being; however, he could find no law against killing a Chinaman" and the case was dismissed. Despite the protest of Texas Rangers , Bean thought it preposterous to forbid a man to carry a weapon. One man who was arrested and accused of carrying concealed weapon was released by Bean with the following logic.

"That charge won't stick," pronounced the judge. "If he was standing still when he was arrested he wasn't carrying weapons because he wasn't going no place. And, if he was not standing still, he was traveling, and it's legal for travelers to carry weapons. Case dismissed." Jurors for his cases were chosen from his best bar customers and Bean allowed no hung juries or appeals. Because Langtry had no jail, all cases were settled by fines, most of which just happened to be the amount the accused had on his person. Of these fines collected, he was never known to have sent any of the money to the state, but, rather pocketed the cash. Though later portrayed in Western films and books as a "hanging judge,"Bean only sentenced two men to hang, one of which escaped. And, in fact, when it came to horse thieves, who were often sentenced to hang, they would be let go under Judge Bean if they returned the horses, and of course, paid a fine.

Bean also made money from granting divorces, which he didn't have the jurisdiction to do, and married numerous couples, always ending the wedding ceremonies with the words, "and may God have mercy on your souls." Bean was defeated in the election of 1886, but the very next year a new precinct was created after Langtry had become part of Val Verde County and he was appointed once again as the new justice of the peace. He continued to be elected until 1896, when he was finally defeated. However, in typical "Bean" fashion, he refused to surrender his seal and law book and continued to try all cases north of the railroad tracks. In 1896, Judge Roy Bean made national headlines by setting up a boxing match in Langtry . Because Texas had outlawed boxing, he scheduled the heavyweight fight between Robert James Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher, to be held on a sandbar on Mexico's side of the Rio Grande River, just south of Langtry . Bean then made arrangements for the press, spectators, and Texas Rangers to travel by train from El Paso to Langtry . Fitzsimmons knocked Maher out in 95 seconds, winning the heavyweight title.

Judge Roy Bean's Jersey Lilly Saloon today, Kathy Weiser, February, 2011. This image available for photographic prints & downloads HERE For years, he boasted of his "acquaintance with Miss Langtry ," telling anyone and everyone that he would one day meet her. When he built a home for himself behind the saloon, he even called it the ï¿½Opera Houseï¿½ in anticipation of a visit by the famous actress. Though he never met Lillie Langtry , he often wrote her, and she allegedly wrote him back and sent him two pistols, which he cherished for the rest of his life. He also claimed credit for naming the town after her, even though it was not the case as mentioned before it was named for railroad man George Langtry. As he aged, Bean spent much of his time on his porch with a shotgun in his arms and doing a lot of drinking and boasting. However, he was also known to help the poor in the area. After a heavy bout of drinking, Bean died in his saloon on March 16, 1903 of lung and heart ailments without ever having met his fantasy woman Lillie Langtry .

He was initially buried in Westlawn Cemetery in Del Rio , Texas , but due to the numerous visitors to his grave, he and his son, Samuel, were later re-interred behind the Whitehead Memorial Museum. Almost a year after his death, Lillie Langtry finally visited his old home. En route from New Orleans to Los Angeles, she stopped to listen to the townspeople tell the stories of Judge Roy Bean. Of the visit, she would later write, "It was a short visit, but, an unforgettable one." The Jersey Lilly Saloon still stands in Langtry , Texas today, along with his home and a museum. Del Rio to Sanderson on the Pecos Trail Roy Bean also built the Opera House and Hall of Justice, which served as his home and never as an actual "opera house." Kathy Weiser, February, 2011. This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE Roy Bean and his son's grave at the Whitehead Museum in Del Rio , Texas Kathy Weiser, February, 2011. From Legends' General Store Wanted - Reward (Personalized with name) mini poster. Custom designed poster made specifically for Legends' General Store and Legends of America.

You cannot find these anywhere else. Printed on semi-glossy, 48 lb paper and measures 11" x 17". Personalize this wanted Poster with up to 20 characters. Made in the USA! $7.99 johnwayne-thealamo.com • View topic - Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos by NefariousNed on Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:11 am Thought I would start a thread on one of West Texas' most colorful characters, Judge Roy Bean, know as the law west of the Pecos. The infamous Justice Of The Peace resided in Langtry, Texas, a hole in the wall town in Val Verde County that was named after famous British singer Lillie Langtry of who Bean was very fond. Bean fought in the Mexican War and was a blockade runner during the War Between the States. He later became a saloon-keeper in Vinegaroon, Texas where he developed a taste for the law---and how to flaunt it.

As judge, Bean relied on a single lawbook, the 1879 edition of the Revised Statutes of Texas. If there were any laws he disagreed with, Bean would merely tear the page out of the lawbook. He once fined a man who had been killed in a street fight of loitering and then took the contents of his wallet in payment. He also acquitted a man accused of killing a Chinese worker because he said he could find no law in the book against killing a "Chinaman". But he was not 100% rapscallion, for Bean did try to help the poor in his jurisdiction from the profits of his saloon, The Jersey Lily" (also named after Lillie Langtry.) Although known as the "hanging judge", Bean in fact, only sentenced two men to hang and then let one off. While horse thieves were usually hanged for the offense in other jurisdictions, Bean would let them off in his so long as the animals were returned. More than several movies have been made about Bean's life including "The Westerner" with Walter Brennan as Bean and ""The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean", with Paul Newman.

"Streets Of Laredo" filmed in Alamo Village, also featured the famous judge as a character, while one of the Kenny Rogers "Gambler" movies did, as well. Was that one filmed at the Village, Rich? Anyway, here's the thread. Now it is left to the forum membership to fill it up. Starting off is an August, 1966 photo of the Jersey Lily Saloon that I just acquired in a grab bag of old snapshots. I certainly hope it is better maintained today.

Attachments JerseyLillyAugust1966.jpg (230.05 KiB) Viewed 5158 times The "OUTSIDE THE ALAMO, Songs of Ned Huthmacher Performed by John Beland" CD Facebook page: by JoeFDNY146 on Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:31 am Similarly to the sand bar fight on a sand bar in the middle of the Mississippi river, in 1897 judge Roy Bean held a boxing match on a sandbar in the middle of the Rio Grand because it was illegal to hold prize fights in either Texas or Mexico but in the middle of the river, neither had jurisdiction, as an added note, this was to have been the first fight filmed in kinetoscope but the fight ended, knockout in 95 seconds, before they could get the camera running. Two sandbar fights Joe Attachments prizefight%20canvas%20arena.jpg (37.02 KiB) Viewed 5112 times Last edited by JoeFDNY146 on Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

"LEST WE FORGET" Joined: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:43 pm Location: Long Island,New York Re: Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos by JoeFDNY146 on Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:48 pm This is going off on a tangent a little bit but I think its of interest.The photos below show the Pecos river, looking from texas side of RG before the Del Rio dam and today. The Pecos has become more of a reservoir than a river from the water backing up the Rio Grande and its tributaries due to the dam they built in Del Rio across the Rio Grand.

A little known and even less discussed is the fact that the backed up water has permanently changed the humidity in the surrounding areas, this in itself is not a big deal but the effects it has on the limestone caves is devastating.just to the east of the Pecos is a canyon that has wall paintings in caves that date back hundreds of years, this Native artwork has withstood the test of time up until the last 40 or so years, and due to the humidity change the limestone has begun flaking, and with the flakes falling off the walls so does the artwork If anyone is interested I'll post some before (only 1960/70s) and now, the amount of destruction is unbelievable, and as usual the politicians don't want to make any waves, no pun intended so while they discuss fixes the damage continues and is irreversible Joe Attachments 422473_178340808967377_730769034_n.jpg (73.67 KiB) Viewed 4872 times 562915_178340925634032_1506

214685_n.jpg (93.91 KiB) Viewed 4877 times Pecos and Rio Grande intersection 376718_178340852300706_1603679167_n.jpg (88.61 KiB) Viewed 4878 times "LEST WE FORGET" Re: Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos by NefariousNed on Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:30 am One thing I thought was interesting about the Knotts Berry Farm replica of the Jersey Lilly is that it has Roy Bean's original death certificate displayed there.

Walter Knott was a collector of Western artifacts. As a matter of fact, he'd bought and then restored the "ghost town" of Calico, a silver mining town that died when the silver ran dry. Knott recreated Calico Ghost town in Buena Park which later became Knotts Berry Farm Amusement Park. The "OUTSIDE THE ALAMO, Songs of Ned Huthmacher Performed by John Beland" CD Facebook page: by Cole_blooded on Sun Feb 22, 2015 3:07 am February 21 in Texas History….. Judge Roy Bean Roy Bean stages a prize fight On this day in 1896, colorful lawman Roy Bean staged a heavyweight championship fight on a sandbar just below Langtry, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Bean, known as the "Law West of the Pecos," was appointed justice of the peace for Pecos County in 1882. He settled at Eagle's Nest Springs, which acquired a post office and a new name, Langtry, in honor of the English actress Lillie Langtry, whom Bean greatly admired. Bean soon became known as an eccentric and original interpreter of the law.

When a man killed a Chinese laborer, for example, Bean ruled that his law book did not make it illegal to kill a Chinese. And when a man carrying forty dollars and a pistol fell off a bridge, Bean fined the corpse forty dollars for carrying a concealed weapon, thereby providing funeral expenses. He intimidated and cheated people, but he never hanged anybody. He reached his peak of notoriety with his staging of the match between Peter Maher of Ireland and Bob Fitzsimmons of Australia. The fight was opposed by civic and religious leaders such as Baptist missionary Leander Millican, and both the Mexican and the U.S. governments had prohibited it. Bean arranged to hold it on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, knowing the Mexican authorities could not conveniently reach the site, and that Woodford H. Mabry's Texas Rangers would have no jurisdiction. The spectators arrived aboard a chartered train; after a profitable delay contrived by Bean, the crowd witnessed Fitzsimmons's defeat of Maher in less than two minutes. Among the spectators was another somewhat disreputable lawman and boxing promoter, Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson. …..Another chapter in Texas History ROY BEAN (ca.

1825–1903). Roy Bean, a frontier justice of the peace known as the "Law West of the Pecos," was born in Mason County, Kentucky, the son of Francis and Anna Bean. The only sources of information about his boyhood and youth are stories told by friends in whom he confided and the reminiscences of his older brother Samuel, published in the Las Cruces, New Mexico, Rio Grande Republican in 1903. Sam came home after serving in the Mexican War and took Roy with him down the Santa Fe Trail to Chihuahua, Mexico, where the brothers set up shop as traders. Roy got into trouble, however, and had to make a quick exit; he turned up a short time later in San Diego at the home of his oldest brother, Joshua, who was mayor of the town and a major general of the state militia. Roy was jailed for dueling in February 1852 but broke out and moved on to San Gabriel, where Joshua by this time had established himself as owner of the Headquarters Saloon.

Roy inherited the property when Joshua was murdered in November 1852, but made another hasty departure after a narrow escape from hanging in 1857 or 1858. His next stop was Mesilla, New Mexico, where Sam was sheriff of a county that stretched at that time all the way across Arizona. Roy arrived destitute, but Sam took him in as partner in a saloon, and he prospered until the Civil War reached the Rio Grande valley. Bean may have had some unofficial military experience, but he found it prudent to leave the country and began a new life in San Antonio. In an area on South Flores Street that soon earned the name of Beanville, he became locally famous for circumventing creditors, business rivals, and the law. On October 28, 1866, he married eighteen-year-old Virginia Chávez, who bore him four children. The couple were not happy together, however. Early in 1882 Roy left home, probably at the suggestion of his friend W. N. Monroe, who was building the "Sunset" railroad toward El Paso and had almost reached the Pecos.

Moving with the grading camps, Bean arrived at the site of Vinegarroon, just west of the Pecos, in July. Crime was rife at the end of the track; it was often said, "West of the Pecos there is no law; west of El Paso, there is no God." To cope with the lawless element the Texas Rangersqv were called in, and they needed a resident justice of the peace in order to eliminate the 400-mile round trip to deliver prisoners to the county seat at Fort Stockton. The commissioners of Pecos County officially appointed Roy Bean justice on August 2, 1882. He retained the post, with interruptions in 1886 and 1896, when he was voted out, until he retired voluntarily in 1902. By 1884 Bean was settled at Eagle's Nest Springs, some miles west of Vinegarroon, which acquired a post office and a new name, Langtry. Bean claimed credit for naming the town after English actress Emilie Charlotte (Lillie) Langtryqv, whom he greatly admired.

Actually, railroad records indicate that the town was named for George Langtry, a railroad construction foreman. Bean's fame as an eccentric and original interpreter of the law began in the 1880s. There was, however, a sort of common sense behind his unorthodox rulings. When a track worker killed a Chinese laborer, for example, Bean ruled that his law book did not make it illegal to kill a Chinese. Since the killer's friends were present and ready to riot, he had little choice. And when a man carrying forty dollars and a pistol fell off a bridge, Bean fined the corpse forty dollars for carrying a concealed weapon, thereby providing funeral expenses. He intimidated and cheated people, but he never hanged anybody. He reached the peak of notoriety on February 21, 1896, when he staged the Fitzsimmons-Maher heavyweight championship fight on a sandbar just below Langtry on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, where Woodford H. Mabry's rangers, sent to stop it, had no jurisdiction. Fitzsimmons won in less than two minutes.

Bean died in his saloon on March 16, 1903, of lung and heart ailments and was buried in the Del Rio cemetery. His shrewdness, audacity, unscrupulousness, and humor, aided by his knack for self-dramatization, made him an enduring part of American folklore. Roy Bean Roy Bean - The Law West of the Pecos Judge Phantley Roy Bean (1825-1903) - Roy Bean was born in Mason County, Kentucky around 1825 to Phantley Roy and Anna Henderson Gore Bean. The youngest of three sons, the Kentucky family was very poor. At the age of 15, he left Kentucky to follow his two older brothers west. With his brother, Sam, he joined a wagon train into New Mexico, then crossed the Rio Grande River and set up a trading post in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1848. After killing a local man, Roy fled to San Diego, California where his brother, Joshua, lived. On February 24, 1852, Bean was in a duel on horseback with a Scotsman named Collins.

In the gunfight, Collins was shot in his right arm and both men were arrested for assault with intent to murder. Bean, who was considered brave and handsome by the local women, received numerous visits and gifts during his six-week stay in jail. When one of his admirers slipped him knives hidden in some tamales, Bean used them to dig through the cell wall and escaped on April 17th. Next, he wound up in San Gabriel, California, where his brother Joshua owned a saloon called the Headquarters. When Joshua was killed in November, 1852, Bean inherited the saloon and began to operate it. While there, Bean killed a Mexican official during an argument over a woman. Friends of the official soon hauled Bean off, lynched him and left him to die. However, he was saved by the young woman who had been the cause of the dispute. For the rest of his life, he sported a permanent rope burn on his neck, which constantly felt stiff. Before long, he was back in New Mexico, where he again lived with his brother Sam who had become the sheriff in Mesilla.

During the Civil War, the Texas army invaded New Mexico and Bean soon joined them, hauling supplies for the Confederates and living in San Antonio. On October 28, 1866, he married eighteen-year-old Virginia Chavez, but the couple were not happy together. Just a year into the marriage, Bean was arrested for aggravated assault on his wife. However, despite their differences, the couple would eventually have four children. For the next decade, the family lived in a Mexican slum area on South Flores Street in San Antonio that soon earned the name of Beanville. During these years, he worked at a number of professions including teamster, saloon operator, running a dairy business, and other entrepreneurial enterprises that were obviously not very successful, as he became known for circumventing creditors, business rivals, and the law. By the early 1880's, Bean and his wife were separated and he sold all his possessions and left San Antonio, wandering about the railroad camps before finally landing in west Texas near the Pecos River. In the early 1880'a the Southern Pacific Railroad was working hard to to overcome its last obstacle of completing its transcontinental route -- crossing the Pecos River.

A construction camp formed near the railroad bridge site, which was called Vinegarroon, named for a for a type of scorpion found in the area, that emits a vinegar-like odor when it is alarmed. The community was founded in 1881, serving as a temporary home for thousands of railroad workers and Roy Bean quickly established a small saloon in the tent city. On July 5, 1882, Texas Ranger Captain T. L. Oglesby penned a note to his commanding officer General King describing the area: Eagle Nest, Pecos County, Texas July 5, 1882 Upon my arrival here on June 29th, I proceeded to visit all the railroad camps and scout the country thoroughly. There is the worst lot of roughs, gamblers, robbers, and pickpocketed, collected here I ever saw, and without the immediate presence of the state troops this class would prove a great detriment towards the completion of the road. There is nothing for Rangers to do but hold this rough element in subjection and control them. The majority of the railroad camps are in Pecos County.

This immediate section being 200 miles from Fort Stockton, the nearest jurisdiction Court of Justice and the consequent minor offences go unpunished; but, I hope to remedy that in a few days by having a Magistrate appointed for the precinct. When it became known that a Justice of the Peace was wanted for the area, Roy Bean was quick to volunteer and on August 2, 1882, he became the only "legal authority" in the area. He first operated his "justice" out of his tent saloon in Vinegarroon, Texas another railroad camp to the south of Langtry.With the nearest court 200 miles away at Fort Stockton, he quickly became the self-proclaimed "Only Law West of the Pecos." An unusual sort of "judge" from the beginning, one of his first judicial acts was to shoot up the saloon of a Jewish competitor. Holding court in his saloon, he utilized a single law book -- the 1879 edition of the Revised Statutes of Texas. His methods of justice, carried out in his combination saloon/courtroom, were somewhat odd and always final. During construction of the bridge at Vinegarroon.

a structure collapsed and ten workers fell. Judge Roy Bean was called to the site to hold an inquest. Riding on a mule to the accident, he pronounced all ten men dead; however, only seven of them had actually been killed. When questioned on this point, the judge reasoned that the others would soon die and that he did not want to make the trip twice. Fortunately, for the three men, he was wrong, and they survived to tell the tale. By December, 1882, railroad construction had ended on the bridge and Vinegarroon was abandoned. Bean then headed northwest to the railroad camp of Eagle Nest (later called Langtry.) There, he quickly set up another tent saloon on railroad land, to the chagrin of Cezario Torres, who owned most of the land beside the railroad right-of-way. He later built a wooden structure for his saloon, which he called the "Jersey Lilly," after the well-known British stage actress Lillie Langtry. Her real last name was actually Emilie Le Breton and she was not related to George Langtry, of whom the town was named. Bean used the saloon as his headquarters and courtroom, and continued his eccentric judicial antics.

On one occasion when the body of a dead cowboy was found in the area, which held $40 and a six-gun, he charged the corpse with carrying a concealed weapon and fined it $40. On another case, when an an Irishman named Paddy O'Rourke was going to be tried for shooting a Chinese laborer, a mob of 200 angry Irishmen surrounded the courtroom and threatened to lynch Bean if O'Rourke was not freed. In response, Bean ruled that "homicide was the killing of a human being; however, he could find no law against killing a Chinaman" and the case was dismissed. Despite the protest of Texas Rangers , Bean thought it preposterous to forbid a man to carry a weapon. One man who was arrested and accused of carrying concealed weapon was released by Bean with the following logic. "That charge won't stick," pronounced the judge. "If he was standing still when he was arrested he wasn't carrying weapons because he wasn't going no place. And, if he was not standing still, he was traveling, and it's legal for travelers to carry weapons. Case dismissed." Jurors for his cases were chosen from his best bar customers and Bean allowed no hung juries or appeals.

Because Langtry had no jail, all cases were settled by fines, most of which just happened to be the amount the accused had on his person. Of these fines collected, he was never known to have sent any of the money to the state, but, rather pocketed the cash. Though later portrayed in Western films and books as a "hanging judge," Bean only sentenced two men to hang, one of which escaped. And, in fact, when it came to horse thieves, who were often sentenced to hang, they would be let go under Judge Roy Bean if they returned the horses, and of course, paid a fine. Bean also made money from granting divorces, which he didn't have the jurisdiction to do, and married numerous couples, always ending the wedding ceremonies with the words, "and may God have mercy on your souls." Bean was defeated in the election of 1886, but the very next year a new precinct was created after Langtry had become part of Val Verde County and he was appointed once again as the new justice of the peace. He continued to be elected until 1896, when he was finally defeated.

However, in typical "Bean" fashion, he refused to surrender his seal and law book and continued to try all cases north of the railroad tracks. In 1896, Judge Roy Bean made national headlines by setting up a boxing match in Langtry. Because Texas had outlawed boxing, he scheduled the heavyweight fight between Robert James Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher, to be held on a sandbar on Mexico's side of the Rio Grande River, just south of Langtry. Bean then made arrangements for the press, spectators, and Texas Rangers to travel by train from El Paso to Langtry. Fitzsimmons knocked Maher out in 95 seconds, winning the heavyweight title. Lillie LangtryFor years, he boasted of his "acquaintance with Miss Langtry ," telling anyone and everyone that he would one day meet her. When he built a home for himself behind the saloon, he even called it the “Opera House” in anticipation of a visit by the famous actress. Though he never met Lillie Langtry , he often wrote her, and she allegedly wrote him back and sent him two pistols, which he cherished for the rest of his life.

He also claimed credit for naming the town after her, even though it was not the case. As he aged, Bean spent much of his time on his porch with a shotgun in his arms and doing a lot of drinking and boasting. However, he was also known to help the poor in the area. After a heavy bout of drinking, Bean died in his saloon on March 16, 1903 of lung and heart ailments without ever having met his fantasy woman Lillie Langtry . He was initially buried in Westlawn Cemetery in Del Rio, Texas, but due to the numerous visitors to his grave, he and his son, Samuel, were later re-interred behind the Whitehead Memorial Museum. Almost a year after his death, Lillie Langtry finally visited his old home. En route from New Orleans to Los Angeles, she stopped to listen to the townspeople tell the stories of Judge Roy Bean. Of the visit, she would later write, "It was a short visit, but, an unforgettable one." The Jersey Lilly Saloon still stands in Langtry, Texas today, along with his home and a museum. TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JUDGE ROY BEAN by John Troesser 1.

Roy Bean married 15 year-old Virginia Chavez in San Antonio on 10-28-1866. Their union brought forth four Beanitos: Roy Jr., Sam, Laura and Zulema. They also adopted a son named John. It was Roy's first and last marriage. They divorced around 1880 and Roy left her in San Antonio while he went South. 2.. In the pre-Langtry days in San Antonio, Roy Bean used to haul and sell milk. In order to increase profits, he added creek water to the milk. When the buyers started noticing minnows in the milk, Roy seemed as surprised as the buyers. "By Gobs," he said, "I'll have to stop them cows from drinking out of the creek." 3.In 1882 Roy Bean was appointed Justice of the Peace for Precinct 6, (then Pecos - now Val Verde County). Roy Bean may have been a heavy drinker and a shady character, but he came highly recommended by Texas Rangers, who felt he "had what it would take" to bring the law "West of the Pecos." 4. Bean enjoyed his tough reputation and he kept his kindness hidden.

Throughout the years, he took some of the fines and much of the collected goods and gave them to the poor and destitute of the area, doing so without it being known. He even took monies collected in the Jersey Lilly, - his own trackside saloon and used them to buy medicine for the sick and poor in and around Langtry. 5. Explaining why he had helped so many people, Roy Bean explained it this way to his friend: "Well Dodd, I haven't been any gol-dang angel myself and there might be a lot charged up to me on Judgment Day; and I figure what good I can do-the Lord will give me credit when the time comes." He was very sincere in this belief and it was the sum and total of any religious statement from Roy Bean. 6. An owner of a Langtry restaurant owed Bean money and when he didn't pay, Bean waited until the restaurant was full, then he then took his place by the door and had each customer pay him for their meal. The last few customers paid the interest. 7. Bean has often been confused with "hanging judge" Parker of Ft. Smith - (perhaps because their slightly unorthodox or creative sentencing).

Bean never actually hanged anyone, although he occasionally "staged" hangings to scare criminals. Bean would prepare a script with his "staff" - if they were sober enough - which allowed for the prisoner to escape. Given this "second-chance" - the culprits never appeared before the court again. 8. Bean never sentenced anyone to the penitentiary. If ANYTHING needing doing in Langtry - the prisoner would do it. If there was nothing to be done, the prisoner could take it easy by simply being staked out in the sun. 9. Nearly everyone has heard the story of Bean fining a dead man $40 - the exact amount that in the corpse's pocket. Less known is the fact that the $40 bought a casket, headstone and paid the gravedigger's labor. He did, however, keep the man's gun for use as a gavel. 10. Roy Bean died at 10:03pm March 19, 1903 after a heavy drinking spree in Del Rio. He returned home at 10 a.m. and died that night at 10 p.m.

The real reason he died, was he simply lost the will to live. Bean could not adjust to modern times. The thing that sent him on his binge was the start of construction on a power plant on the Pecos River. He used to say that times were changing and he was being left behind. Judge Roy Bean Law West of the Pecos - The Hanging Judge Judge Roy BeanOf the many colorful characters who have become legends of the Old West, "Hanging Judge Roy Bean," who held court sessions in his saloon along the Rio Grande River in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas, remains one of the more fascinating. According to the myth, Roy Bean named his saloon and town after the love of his life, Lily Langtry, a British actress he'd never met. Calling himself the "Law West of the Pecos," he is reputed to have kept a pet bear in his courtroom and sentenced dozens to the gallows, saying "Hang 'em first, try 'em later." Like most such legends, separating fact from fiction is not always so easy. Western Ramblings Roy Bean was born in Mason County, Kentucky about 1825.

At age 15 he left home to follow two older brothers west seeking adventure. With Brother Sam, he joined a wagon train into New Mexico, then crossed the Rio Grande and set up a trading post in Chihuahua, Mexico. After killing a local hombre, Roy fled to California, to stay with his brother Joshua, who would soon become the first mayor of San Diego. There, Roy developed a reputation for bragging, dueling and gambling on cockfights. Mayor Josh Bean appointed Roy a lieutenant in the state militia and bartender of the Headquarters, his own saloon. In 1852, Roy was arrested after wounding a man in a duel. He escaped, and after Mayor Josh was killed a few months later by a rival in a romantic triangle, Roy headed back to New Mexico where brother Sam Bean had become a sheriff. Roy tended bar in Sam's saloon for several years while smuggling guns from Mexico through the Union blockade during the Civil War. Afterward, he married a Mexican teenager and settled in San Antonio, where throughout the 1870s, he supported 5 children by peddling stolen firewood and selling watered-down milk. His notorious business practices eventually earned his San Antonio neighborhood the nickname Beanville.

West of the Pecos In 1882, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad hired crews to link San Antonio with El Paso, Texas across 530 miles of scorching Chihuahuan Desert, infested with bobcats, rattlesnakes and scorpions (locally called vinegaroons by local Texans). Fleeing his marriage and illegal businesses in San Antonio, Roy headed to Vinegaroon to become a saloonkeeper, serving railroad workers whiskey from a tent. As his own best customer, he was often drunk and disorderly. But with the nearest courtroom a week's ride away, County Commissioners were eager to establish some sort of local law enforcement. They appointed Roy Bean Justice of the Peace for Precinct No. 6, Pecos County, Texas. Roy was just crazy, or drunk enough to accept. He packed up and moved north from Vinegaroon to a small tent city on a bluff above the Rio Grande named Langtry in honor of a railroad boss who had run the Southern Pacific's tracks through it. The name also happened to belong to a beautiful British actress, Lillie Langtry Roy had read about and become enchanted with.

Roy built a small saloon and named it the Jersey Lilly (Lillie's moniker) which also served as his home. He hung a tattered picture of Miss Lillie behind the bar, and above the door, posted signs proclaiming "ICE COLD BEER" and "LAW WEST OF THE PECOS." From here Roy Bean began dispensing liquor, justice and various tall tales, including that he himself had named the town for actress Lillie Langtry. Dispenser of "Justice" Roy Bean's justice was not complicated by legalities; it was characterized by greed, prejudice, a little common sense and lots of colorful language. "It is the judgment of this court that you are hereby tried and convicted of illegally and unlawfully committing certain grave offenses against the peace and dignity of the State of Texas, particularly in my bailiwick," was a typical Bean ruling. "I fine you two dollars; then get the hell out of here and never show yourself in this court again. That's my rulin'." One of Bean's most outrageous rulings occurred when an Irishman was accused of killing a Chinese worker. Friends of the accused threatened to destroy the Jersey Lilly if he was found guilty.

Court in session, Bean browsed through his law book, turning page after page, searching for another legal precedent. Finally, rapping his pistol on the bar, he proclaimed, "Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed." In legend, Judge Roy Bean is a merciless dispenser of justice, often called "The Hangin' Judge." But that title goes to Isaac Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who sentenced 172 men to hang and actually strung up 88 of them. In his book "Judge Roy Bean Country," Jack Skiles says that although Bean threatened to hang hundreds, "there's no evidence to suggest that Judge Roy Bean ever hung anybody." One or two were sentenced and taken to the gallows, but allowed to escape. Despite his self-serving antics, Roy was duly elected to the office in 1884 and often reelected, so that between 1882 and 1902, most of Roy's bizarre rulings were the law. Except for an occasional murder, his cases consisted mostly of misdemeanor counts of drunkenness and the crimes of smalltime con men like himself.

Roy spent most of his days sitting on the porch of his saloon, with rifle handy. In his spare time, he served customers. His favorites were railroad passengers, desperate for something to drink while the train took on water. Bean served them quickly, then lingered before giving them their change. When the train's warning whistle blew, customers swore and demanded their change. Roy then fined them the exact amount and sent them cursing back to their railroad cars. Birth of a Legend In 1898, prizefighting had become illegal in most Western states, as it was in Mexico, and promoters could find nowhere to hold the world championship title bout between Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher. On February 22, the Jersey Lilly was packed with 200 fight fans who, after a few rounds of drinks, followed Roy to a bridge he built to a sand bar in the Rio Grande River. While Texas Rangers watched the makeshift ring helplessly from atop the bluff, Fitzsimmons decked Maher in only 95 seconds. After returning to the saloon for more drinks, the fans and sportswriters headed for El Paso, where news stories were filed to papers throughout the U.S.

This event launched the birth of the Roy Bean legend, which burgeoned after continued newspaper and dime novel accounts of his exploits, many fabricated by Roy himself. The myth of Roy Bean eventually became part of Texas folklore. In 1936, the Texas Centennial Fairgrounds displayed replicas of Roy's saloon and office. In 1940, Walter Brennan received an academy award for his portrayal of Roy Bean opposite Gary Cooper. In 1956, Edgar Buchanan played him in a weekly TV series, and in the 1972, Paul Newman portrayed him in the movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. Miss Lillie For years, Roy boasted of his "acquaintance with Miss Langtry," and promised locals she would one day arrive and sing in Langtry. In 1896, after his first saloon was destroyed by fire, Roy rebuilt the Jersey Lilly and constructed a home for himself across the street, which he called the Opera House, anticipating the day when Lillie would perform there. Roy never met Miss Lillie, but he often wrote her, and she is purported to have written back, even sending him 2 pistols, which he cherished till his dying day.

Contrary to the Larry McMurtry novel and movie Streets Of Laredo, Roy was not gunned down by a Mexican outlaw on the steps of the Jersey Lilly. In March 1903, Roy went on a drinking binge in Del Rio and simply died peacefully in his bed the following morning. Ten months later, the Southern Pacific stopped at Langtry and finally disgorged Lillie herself on the way from New Orleans to San Francisco. She had decided to take the judge up on his invitation. She visited the saloon and listened as locals told her how Roy Bean had fined a corpse, freed a murderer and lined his pockets by shortchanging train passengers. "It was a short visit," Lillie later wrote in her autobiography, "but an unforgettable one." Langtry Today These days, almost 100,000 sightseers visit Langtry each year. Tourists from all over the world arrive by car, train and tour bus, seeking the romance of the American West. "Where's your hangin' tree?" is their most common question.

But from the steps of the Jersey Lily saloon, one can only see the remnants of an old mesquite tree, a dozen sad and dusty buildings and the hot, unforgiving Chihuahuan Desert all about. The nearest courtroom is in Del Rio, 50 miles away. --Bob Katz by TexianAtHeartII on Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:02 am NefariousNed wrote: Thought I would start a thread on one of West Texas' most colorful characters, Judge Roy Bean, know as the law west of the Pecos. The infamous Justice Of The Peace resided in Langtry, Texas, a hole in the wall town in Val Verde County that was named after famous British singer Lillie Langtry of who Bean was very fond. Bean fought in the Mexican War and was a blockade runner during the War Between the States. He later became a saloon-keeper in Vinegaroon, Texas where he developed a taste for the law---and how to flaunt it. As judge, Bean relied on a single lawbook, the 1879 edition of the Revised Statutes of Texas.

If there were any laws he disagreed with, Bean would merely tear the page out of the lawbook. He once fined a man who had been killed in a street fight of loitering and then took the contents of his wallet in payment. He also acquitted a man accused of killing a Chinese worker because he said he could find no law in the book against killing a "Chinaman". But he was not 100% rapscallion, for Bean did try to help the poor in his jurisdiction from the profits of his saloon, The Jersey Lily" (also named after Lillie Langtry.) Although known as the "hanging judge", Bean in fact, only sentenced two men to hang and then let one off. While horse thieves were usually hanged for the offense in other jurisdictions, Bean would let them off in his so long as the animals were returned. More than several movies have been made about Bean's life including "The Westerner" with Walter Brennan as Bean and ""The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean", with Paul Newman.

"Streets Of Laredo" filmed in Alamo Village, also featured the famous judge as a character, while one of the Kenny Rogers "Gambler" movies did, as well. Was that one filmed at the Village, Rich? Anyway, here's the thread. Now it is left to the forum membership to fill it up. Starting off is an August, 1966 photo of the Jersey Lily Saloon that I just acquired in a grab bag of old snapshots. I certainly hope it is better maintained today. Ned, don't forget, there was a 50's tv show called Judge Roy Bean, starring the great Edgar Buchanan as the judge. He looked quite a bit the part. by MartyB on Sun May 31, 2015 7:46 pm Of interest...

Haven't seen this one before...A cabinet card of Judge Roy Bean in front of the 'Jersey Lilly' - "THE LAW WEST OF THE PECOS." Wonderful cabinet card depicting Judge Roy Bean standing outside his saloon/courtroom with a group of local lawmen (one of whom wears a Colt single action and a large-frame double action revolver, as well as a suspension badge), an unknown dignitary, local Mexicans, a few young children, and what appears to be a legless woman (actually a child) sitting on a bicycle... Photographed circa 1890 by an unknown photographer... Attachments 000(0)_0_2.jpg (121.52 KiB) Viewed 4383 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream.

Re: Judge Roy Bean: Law West Of The Pecos by RLC-GTT on Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:04 am Here is a photo from Charles Ramsdell's excellent and history-solid 1959 book San Antonio - A Historical and Pictorial Guide. This house supposedly still stands (or did in 1959) across the river from Mission Concepcion at 407 Glenn Ave. According to Ramsdell, it may date before 1810 "when the parish priest owned a ranch between the mouths of the San Pedro and Concepcion Creeks... In the 1870's, Roy Bean, later Judge Bean, 'Law West of the Pecos,' had a dairy here. When the customers found minnows in the milk, he complained that his cows kept lapping them up from the river." Attachments Wet Your Whistle at These Historic Saloons - True West Magazine Wet Your Whistle at These Historic Saloons A history of drinking in the Old West tied to 16 historic saloons you can still drink at today!

February 11, 2013 0 0 0 0 “Saloon openings are all the rage. The Oriental is simply gorgeous and is pronounced the finest place of the kind this side of San Francisco.” “The bar is a marvel of beauty; the sideboards were made for the Baldwin Hotel; the gaming room connected is carpeted with Brussels, brilliantly lighted, and furnished with reading matter and writing materials for its patrons. “Every evening music from the piano and violin attracts a crowd; and the scene is really a gay one—but all for the men. To be sure, there are frequent dances, which I have heard called, ‘respectable,’ but as long as so many members of the demi-monde, who are very numerous and very showy here, patronize them, many honest women will hesitate to attend. When Clara Brown arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, she duly noted its saloons like the Oriental were popular and beautiful, but no respectable women dared enter them. Women in Western saloons were the exception, not the rule. The majority of saloons that hosted women were “dance halls” where the “hostesses” or “queens” were doing a horizontal dance!

Tombstone’s Crystal Palace Saloon, which still serves good whiskey to this day, was one of the few saloons that sported a respectable, female faro dealer. Former Tombstone resident John Hancock reminisced about seeing her in the 1880s: “One of the best faro dealers I ever saw was a girl that used to deal sometimes on afternoons for a gambler that went by the name of ‘Napa Nick’ who had a faro bank in the old Crystal Palace Saloon. She was a handsome girl about 21 or 22 years of age and had evidently come from a good family. There was nothing harsh or coarse about her and she was always well-dressed in the prevailing styles but not loud or gaudy, and her diamonds were always appropriate and while they lent their charm to her beauty they were not out of place or seemed to have been put on for show; and the way she could deal faro was a revelation to any old-timer that thought he was pretty slick at the game.” In frontier boomtowns and cowtowns, a saloon was often the first to open.

Life was rough, and folks had little to do after a hard day’s work but drink and chat at the local saloon. The types of saloons varied, depending upon the town they served. Larger, wealthier towns tended to have sophisticated social clubs, but they had their share of dance halls and hole-in-the-wall places too. Smaller, remote towns usually had a few basic saloons, and some doubled as a community meeting place. Women in small towns could enter saloons without tarnishing their reputations, but this was not the norm. Tucson, Arizona, pioneer C.C. Wheeler remembered, “A woman was seldom seen in a saloon and, in fact, the only time women appeared where gambling was conducted, or liquor sold, was during Fiesta season.” Being a saloon owner or bartender was quite respectable. “The cheapest and easiest way to become an influential man and be looked upon by the community at large was to stand behind a bar, wear a cluster diamond pin and sell whiskey. I am not sure but that the saloon-keeper had a shade higher rank than any other member of society.

His opinion had weight…,” wrote Mark Twain, who lived in Virginia City, Nevada, during the great Comstock silver rush in the 1860s. The What Cheer House The What Cheer House and Saloon in Columbia, California, was in business in 1857 and still serves drinks to this day. But even nice saloons like What Cheer had their share of rowdy patrons. In August 1876, Peter Arden became inebriated and an officer was called to escort him out. Arden apparently wasn’t finished at the saloon and began hurling “very vile language” toward the officer. He was promptly arrested. About 45 days later, Thomas Coleman, under the influence of “tarantula juice,” broke a window at the What Cheer. Like Arden, he was arrested and pleaded guilty. Fort Worth, Texas, was a rowdy cowtown when pioneer Andre Jorgenson Anderson, a Norway native, settled there in 1874. “The White Elephant was the most magnificent place in Fort Worth those days,” he recalled. “It was located between Third and Fourth Streets on Main. It was a saloon, gambling house, and restaurant.

There were no queens connected with the White Elephant. Before its opening, the place was advertised to be one of the finest combination saloons, gambling houses, and restaurants, without any exceptions. Those days ladies did not frequent saloons, but the good ladies of Fort Worth could not resist taking a look at the White Elephant during its opening night, and a large number came to look at the place….” Today, you can still throw back a drink at the historic establishment. Another Texas saloon, the Jersey Lilly, may not serve drinks today, but it’s worth a stop just to relish in its history. The Jersey Lilly made the national news frequently, not because of its drinks or brawls, but because of its owner. Judge Roy Bean was a colorful character who dispensed his own frontier justice. He was judge, jury and coroner in Langtry, Texas. If found guilty, and most were, you paid a fine, upon threat of being hanged. He was creative at earning a living as the judge; he even once fined a corpse. In 1897 Bean examined the body of a man who fell to his death. The man had a revolver and $40 on him.

Since it was against the law to carry a concealed and loaded gun in Texas, Bean posthumously fined the man $40 and confiscated his weapon. Bean stated, “…just because this gentleman got it into his head to get killed, I don’t mean to let him offend the peace and dignity of Texas.” East of Langtry, in San Antonio, Albert Friedrich opened the Buckhorn Saloon in 1881 (it has moved a few times since). Savvy businessman Friedrich quickly learned to accept horns and antlers in place of money from cashless cowhands. Still, many of his customers managed to pay with cash, leaving the Buckhorn vulnerable in 1902, when $200 was stolen from the cash box behind the bar. The robbers didn’t take one antler! Today, the saloon’s cherrywood back bar features beers on drafts and prickly pear margaritas. Buckhorn was the name of another saloon, but this one was in Denver, Colorado. Henry “Shorty Scout” Zietz, who once rode for Buffalo Bill Cody, opened the Buckhorn Exchange in 1893 on Osage Street, directly across from the Rio Grande Railroad yards.

Every Friday, railroad employees walked across the street to “exchange” their paychecks for gold. In return, Zietz offered each one a token for a free lunch and a beer. Now in its second century of operation, the saloon caters to both cattlemen and sinners alike. Up in Buffalo, Wyoming, the Occidental Saloon still attracts town locals, miners and hunters, just as it did when it opened in 1880. The adjoining hotel also hosted some more well-known guests, including Theodore Roosevelt, Calamity Jane, Tom Horn, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Western novelist Owen Wister. Despite these famous guests, the saloon knew it had to survive on the local trade. It placed an ad that read, “Family Wines…making a specialty of table wine for family use….” You have to wonder how many families actually patronized the saloon? In Leadville, Colorado, the Silver Dollar Saloon is a nice, cozy place to stop for a refreshment. It opened as the Board of Trade Saloon in 1879.

John Morgan ran this silver mining saloon, but by 1898, Joe Gavin had taken over and hired Sam Boyce as his bartender and manager. Gavin trusted his old Cripple Creek buddy to run things, at least until Boyce was “asked” to leave town for speaking out against the Colorado Militia. (He told a barber he hoped the Colorado militia would be killed off by the Spaniards at Manila.) According to The Denver Post, “Boyce was jerked out of the barber’s chair and unceremoniously kicked intothe street.” All of these historic Old West saloons, and a few others we share here, offer unique characteristics often based on the size of the town, just as was true during the frontier era. Then, saloon interiors ranged from simplistic to elegant. Small town saloon patrons likely found the basics—a bartender, glasses, spittoons and alcohol. In bigger or wealthier towns, saloons were elaborately decorated with mahogany wood, oil paintings, chandeliers and expensive carpets. An endless supply of high-quality whiskey, champagne, cordials, rum, wine and more could also be had. Many offered a reading room with newspapers and periodicals from around the country.

A saloon often had a small cigar concession near the entrance. This way, both male and female patrons could make purchases without actually entering the saloon. Regardless of what saloons looked like or what drinks they served in the past, many a lonely miner, cowboy or businessman found a haven in them from their daily grind. Folks still find their respites at these historic watering holes to this day. Sherry Monahan has authored two books on frontier saloons, Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons and The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers, and More. Photo Gallery Actress Lillie Langtry (inset) visited the Jersey Lilly saloon named for her by Judge Roy Bean after his death in 1904. She described its interior as: “The tables showed plainly that they had been severely used, for which they were slashed as if with bowie-knives, and on each was a well-thumbed deck of playing cards.” Fort Worth’s most historic saloon is none other than the White Elephant.

Owner Luke Short catapulted into gunman fame after a February 1887 gunfight in which he fatally shot Jim Courtright, a former city marshal who had been trying to extort protection money from Short. Originally located in Hell’s Half Acre in the 1890s, you can now find the saloon in the Historic Stockyards District. – Courtesy Roger E. Kislingbury Collection, featured in Saloons, Bars & Cigar Stores (Waldo and Van Winkle Publishing) – “I am not sure but that the saloon-keeper had a shade higher rank than any other member of society. His opinion had weight….” –Mark Twain, in Roughing It Alas, barmen, like the one shown at the Oriental Saloon above, no longer serve drinks in the still-standing Tombstone building. Thankfully, you can partake in a drink at the historic Crystal Palace Saloon, built on the Golden Eagle Brewery site after it burned down in 1881 (inset).

Both saloons saw much mayhem, inside and even outside its doors; Marshal Virgil Earp was wounded, but not killed, while heading toward the Crystal Palace in 1881, while O.K. Corral gunfight survivor Billy Claiborne was gunned down in 1882 by Frank Leslie on Fifth Street, between the Oriental and the Crystal Palace. – All photos True West Archives unless otherwise noted; inset courtesy John F. McIntosh of ASU’s College of Architecture & Environmental Design – Rotgut, NOT! Commodore Richard Taylor built the one-story stone house known as Riverside in 1792; shown here are some of the whiskey distillers working for Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr. after the Civil War. The house is still on the site of the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfurt, Kentucky. – Courtesy Buffalo Trace Distillery – Cigar stands (like the above sidewalk stand) and reading rooms were placed outside saloons so both male and female patrons could make purchases without entering the establishment.

One frontier cigar stand owner eventually ended up owning the saloon—John Ward, along with his brother William, raised enough funds to purchase the White Elephant in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1885. – Courtesy Roger E. Kislingbury Collection, featured in Saloons, Bars & Cigar Stores (Waldo and Van Winkle Publishing) – Giving the pugilist decor of this saloon, the “private” entrance at far left might have led to a backroom featuring prizefights, a popular male entertainment in isolated frontier towns (even though the sport remained illegal in most of the country until the 1920s). One of the reasons we love this photograph is because it features a woman—a rare sight in frontier saloons. – Courtesy George Giumarra Collection, featured in Saloons, Bars & Cigar Stores (Waldo and Van Winkle Publishing) –

Question: A photograph of which actress did Judge Roy Bean always carry in his wallet?
Answer: Lily Langtry