The Macon Republican from Macon, Missouri • Page 1

PART ONE, PAQES 1-8 ICAW EEPUB MACON VOL. XXXIX, NO. 42. MACON, MISSOURI, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1909. PHILIP GANSZ, Editor and Proprietor.

came on," ZEAL FOR CRIMINALS. LIVELY DAY IN COURT. A PONY RIDER'S OATH. STORY OF RED LARR "IhL0 32 the sheriff de INTROSPECTION. clined to prosecute Larry for trying to kill him, and requested the court to REFORMERS HAY GO TOO FAR.

MAJOR S.G. BROCK ON STAND. parole him." NO CUSS WORDS; NO LIQUORS. WAS A NERVY GUN FIQHTER. If I knew you and you knew me If both of us could clearly see, And with an Inner sight divine The meaning of your heart and mine, I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands In friendliness: Great Scott!" dividuals, searching for flaws, hunt about penitentiaries and jails, and cry aloud of the 'abuses' they find therein.

Tbe trouble with the average criminal leformer is he knows nothing of the criminal. Laws designed to affect tbe law-breaker should be laid before experts men long accustomed to dealing with all sorts of the criminals species before their passage. We want to give the bad man everything that his health and comfort may require, but at the "The judge thought the sheriff Our thoughts would pleasantly agree If I knew you and you Knew me. )l Took Him in Hand and Nixon Walteuman Sheriff Tried Then Revulsion Will Come and Put Down The Screws Tighter Than Ever Says M. and M.

Road Was Killed by Politicians--Walter Brown's Connection With the Bonds. riacon Law Firm Represents Big Claim for Property Taken by Government, La had gone daffy, but as Larry's other charge happened to be for a small crime shooting a greaser, I believe he let him out. He remarked to the sheriff, however, that before a month to Reform Him Pen Qot Him at Last. same time we want him to pay the price Larry would bo in prison again." a result of the constant breach of HE chancery court began taking From the St. Louis Stat1.

old-like gentlemen, strangers "And he was? A trust by those in lesponsible po- 'or hia Evasion of the rights of society. TWO to WO each other and to the town, were ITo van. Vmi had been When he knows he will have that pen evidence Tuesday morning as soon as the stenographer. Mrs. E.

L. sitions, and the growth of murder chance seat-mates at the picture Macon, November BIQ claim against the Government, to be presented by the granddaughters of William H. A guying him so nam aDout nis con- ehowonelnight this week. One of the men vict that the sheriff thought he'd was bronzed like a cowboy. Age had not Bnow them hia rierjdahip for Larry was on good iudement.

The sheriff had a Russell, will reopen a discussion of one of the most spectacular enterprises ever put on foot in America the Pony pony express mail from the east was delivered to the Hannibal St. Joe railroad at Hannibal. The engines burned wood. The word went out from the superintendent that a record must be made on the first pony express that would stand for 50 years. Until very recently no regular train has beat the time of the pony express mail.

On the occasion of the first trip, a picked engineer Ad Clark and crew were placed in charge. Spikes were driven down at all the switches, and all trains along the line were sidetracked for an hour before the steam end of the pony express was due. At certain grown son, Thad by name, quite a alty to pay, and that his sentence will be carried out to tbe extreme letter of the law, it will make him think harder before he plans a new attack. "When the average professional re -former gets to tampering with the criminal code, and it3 execution, he is handing a live wire, and dosen't seem to know it. The coddling of criminals must be stopped, or things will swing around to the old regime, and it will be Express from tbe Missouri River to the Treat, arrived from Hannibal.

The witness Tuesday were MajorS.G. Brock, Lon Haynor. Cbas. Wardell, Judge James G. Edwards of the County and N.

M. Moody, County Clerk. Mr. Moody arrived in the city Monday night, he having been in the hospital at Kansas City for several weexs past. He 9 still very pale and does not look at well.

His evidence, however, was given in a very clear and intelligent manner. Major Brock was examined in chief Pacific seaboard. taken from him the keen, alert look of a man of action. He was roughly dressed, but bis well-trimmed mustache and imperial gave him a distinguished appearance. His voice was soft and drawling.

The other was a veteran traveling man, large, round-faced, well-fed, nearly bald. "The Convict's Sacrifice," was the play. Avery harsh-featured man in The heirs of the great freighter and likely chap, and he brought out a grocery store and put Thad in charge, with Larry as clerk. He informed Thad that Larry was to be trusted implicitly. You see, the sheriff wanted to back his opinion of Lnrry to the limit.

Larry seemed to take to the business. He did plainsman are the Misses Julia and Sarah Russell, both accomplished and ous crimes, a strong revulsion of public sentiment regarding the prosecution and handling of criminals is close at hand, according to views expressed this week by Judge N. M. Shelton of the second judicial bench. During his service on the bench it has become Judge Shelton's duty to twice pass sentence of death upon convicted murderers, and both were executed in accordance with that sentence.

In one of these cases a lynching was prevented by the judge's peremptory action in insisting upon a trial. Judge Shelton, while having the natural repugnance of a sympathetic man to taking human life, believes capital punishment i9 the best answer to tbe crime of deliberate and premeditated murder. good-looking. Their claim is now in the hands of a law firm at Macon, (R. S.

Matthews Son.) and it has all the lifting, the hard drudgery work, and let iThad smoke cigars and play gentleman. For a while it seemed the old man's bet on Larry was going to stripes was being chased by the officers of the penitentiary. A hundred dollars reward was out for the fugitive. Tired, been found to be a very interesting case. A number of station agents, one or two division agents and several of the worse than ever for the law-breaker.

That's the way history talks to us, and it is true. "When punishment is uncertain mob violence rules. Let the people once understand that their courts will swiftly meet the question presented by an atrocious crime and there will be no mobs. In spite of all that is said about points fuel agents waited with a swarm of men, each bearing an armful of wood ready to jump into the tender so that no time might be lost in fueling. The distance from Hannibal to St.

206 miles, was covered in a little more than four hours, which meant that the starved, able to go no further, the convict stumbled into a working man's hut; win people began coming around and patting him on the shoulder. They pony riders, now aged and feeble, have been located. traded a good deal just to encourage was fed and kindly received. He went a way very grateful. Later the workman by Mr.

E. Y. Mitchell. After a few preliminaries the examination proceeded as Question: State whether or not you were familiar with the manner in whicn the financial affairs of Macon county have been conducted for the last ten years? Answer: Yes, sir, somewhat. I have been aay some but I have a general knowledge of the matter.

Q. State what the system is in paying county warrants current county It is claimed that, during the Civil Larrv. who seemed to appreciate it was discharged for befriending a crim mightily. WIZUHM ff. TZV-SSTZZL FaffEg "Then the dire prophecies of other the law's delays and technicalities between the crime and its punishment, the judge can do a great deal to hasten the movement of the legal machinery, and the officers can assist him.

Where a inal, and was brought to such a pass that he and his little family were on the verge of starvation; one of the little girls lay days came true Larry was pinched just at the time everybody thought he in bed with a flower in her thin hand was making good." "It alwas happens thataway," mur palpably diliatory motion is raised, it Again the convict comes along, the officers hard behind. The convict sees the dire strait 3 of the little family, and, mured the traveling man. "The sheriff had been called to attend warrants in this county? A. Well, the warrants are drawn on the treasurer but they are presented to the collector, and he pays them. Q.

He pays them cash? A. Yes, sir, they don't go into the should be promptly overruled. We've plenty of law to operate under, and I think any court, desirous of a speedy trial of the accused, will find tbe way to secure it, and thus obviate an uprising of the people. knowing or the rewara, lorces tne iatner the federal court at St. Louis ana was to arrest him; said he was going to be held there three weeks.

When he got caught any way, and the family might back Larry was in jail and the store as well have the money as the police, shut up, Thad explaining that having treasurer's office at all. So the'convict grabs his friend's hand, no clerk he had got tired of the busi throws it around his neck and when the ness. It seems an old gentleman bad Q. That ia the universal custom? A. So I understand.

Q. State if you have had any con police burst in it looks like a genuine come to town late one evening, after the capture. The poor iamiiy gets tne $iw banks were closed, and asked permis-and the good convict is led away by the sion to leave a pocket book containing versations at various times with tbe officers of Macon county concerning the PONY EXmXSSJZIM "Laymen should quit tinkering with the criminal, and leave the job to men who have had the opportunity to study him at close range. They are the ones who know best what to do, and to their intelligent effort will society be indebted for its protection. If crime is only a disease, as the reformers assert, then place the paitent in the hands of the specialist who has worked on that disease, the man who has handled him unfeeling officers of the law, but just as a thousand dollars in the safe till morn-he)gets outside the house he becomes fag.

He gave the money to Larry. method of paying current county warrants? mulish, and is shot. Father, mother and Next the money was gone War, the Government seized the ponies and other property of the service, aggregating $100,000 and that no compensation was made. the two ragged little gins rusn out ana Thad told his father be hadn't been in minister to the convict. The sick girl, town the day the old gentleman left the to ease his pain, places her flowers in money, and knew nothing of the cir In an age when it seemed all the and knows what there is in him." his stiffening bands, whereat he smiles cumstance.

Larry wouldn't make any sad-like and dies while the orchestra statement to the sheriff or anybody else plays soft and low. and they sent him to the U. S. prison Lived 152 Years. Wm.

Parr England's oldest nnn "ItHalways gives me a tired feeling," for five years. One day the sheriff re brawny men of the West drank regularly, the pony rider was barred by oath from touching intoxicants of any kind. It was a day when absolute temperance was not popular among people who worked out the destiny of the West. married the third time at 120, worked remarked the round-faced as ceived a letter from the warden stating in the fields till 132 and lived 20 years they were leaving, -'to see the way longer. People should be youthful at 80.

that No. 8746 was dying of consumption and wanted to see him. The sheriff theaters and moving pictures shows can- James Wright, of Spurlock, shows nonize plug uglies and outlaws! Now, how to remain young. "1 feel just like a wasn't feeling very kindly toward Larry but he couldn't neglect a call like that RIDERS TAKE OATH. lb-year-old boy," be writes, "after tak a kid seeing that show would have ing six bottles of Electric Bitters.

For Th eoath taken by Russell's pony i (my-r- --z-- isi23es. i There wasn't much besides bones and thunderin' sight more sympathy for that desperado than he would for the Riders was as follows: thirty years Kidney trouble made life a burden, but the first bottle of this wonderful medicine convinced me I had red hair on the cot in the little prisoner's cell. He was sure the thinnest bit of "I do hereby swear, before the men who were trying to catch him." found the greatest cure on earth." "It sure has a bad influence on small humanity that ever had life in it, Great and Living God, that during my engagement and while I am in the em They're a godsend to weak, sickly run replied the man with the it's the last call, I guess, old man, down or old people. Try them. oUc at military face.

"I expect it's wrong." Larry, holding out a skeleton claw, J. D. SMITH SON. ploy of Russell, Majors Waddle, I will, under no circumstances, use pro "Of course it's wrong! I'd sooner let With a smile that was more like a ghast Courtesy of The St. Louis Star.

fane language, that I will drink no in a boy of mine mix in a poker game than ly grin, The Charity association met Tuesday toxicating liquors, that I will not quarrel 'I'm sorry for you, replied go to these burglar-hero shows." In the last 50 or 60 years there has noon at the home of the president Mrs. E. J. Demeter. Tuesday November 30, pony express train shot over its wobbly track at 50 miles an hour! or fight with any other employe of the the sheriff, taking a seat by the iron "I know of a funny case cot.

'I had out a good deal of store by At. St. Joseph the sawed-off train "You do? Well, let's step in here a get someoysters," said the traveler. was selected as tbe date for the big charity bazaar. The doors will open at A.

WelJ, my conversation has been not with them alone but whole arrangement. Q. This avoidance of the M. and M. debt? A.

Yes, sir. Q. Explain what conversations you have had with the various officers concerning the avoiding of the payment of the M. and M. debt? Mr.

Dysart: The defendant asks that he be confined to the defendant. We don't think hear say evidence is competent at all. The conversations he had with these defendants, I presume, would be competent evidence. Mr. Mitchell: Of course we charge in all the bill that your method has been in vogue for a number of years, and they time and time again reiterate the fact that it has been.

By the Court: I understand the question to be limited to the conversations with county officers. Mr. Guthrie: But all tbe county officers are not involved in this suit. A. Only day before yesterday I talked with one of them.

Mr. Guthrie: I object to anything that occurred since the filing of this bill. Mr. Mitchell: Tbe admissions of the officers would certainly be competent. Mr.

Guthrie We just as well get at the bottom of this matter right here. These officers cannot by loose expressions on the street or in the newspapers bind this county. It has to be while they are in discharge or their duty. They are not the general agents of the county. They are only the agents of the county when they are in the discharge of their duty.

It is only in the discharge of their duty that their declarations Dind. By the Court: Proceed, Major' Brock. A. Well, I have had general conver-( Continued on 1th page.) you. I'd a trusted you more than would was greeted by an enormous crowd.

The overland mail was transferred to the "I want to get the taste of that thing 1 o'clock in the afternoon and at 7 in "The little convict seemed to brighten out of my head." the evening. There will be a candy booth and those who wish to donate up a bit and then he began clawing at They went into a cafe, selected seats something in his breast. been a marked chinge in the method of dealing with the criminal problem," remarked the judge. "As late as the Civil war jails were constructed of solid masonry, with scant aperatures for light and oftentimes damp and unwholesome dungeon-like. We have one of that sort here, but recently discarded.

It seemed to be the rule that the prisoner was deserving of no consideration regarding his health. The main thing was to hold him safely. That sort of iail as far as possible from the music, and will please notify Miss Nannie Moore. About half of the other donations have 'How long I been he asked little sacks of the pony rider. Several dignitaries made speeches; the band played and everybody, was enthused.

Ad Clark, the nervy engineer, was the hero of the hour. Then the little pony express rider pranced up and he became the traveler gave the order. 'Nigh three said the sheriff, "We'll lay the scene at San Berna not come in yet. They should be sent 'You can soak a man two years in at once to either Mrs. Demeter or Mrs.

after he's done a job, can, aillo, because that's as good as any other place," the bronzed man began, in his slow, even tone. "The sheriff had a 'The statute runs out in two years the great man of the occasion. As he left town on his route to the West the replied the sheriff. pretty tough gang under lock and key, crowd cheered as long as he was in you can't bother him after represented the sentiment of good people at that time. Now sentiment has so holding for U.

S. court. One night Franklin Smith. The public will please remember that the bazaar will be held in the new Walker building on Rubey Btreet. Any lady that made cotton pillow cases if they feel they have done too much the association is willing to pay for the cotton.

Then their work sight. changed that jails of that character are whenlhejstarted to go in amongst them a little red-headed-duffer they called BUFFALO BILL" A RIDER. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, then but 15 years "Then he pulled out a mussed up scrap 01 paper ana nanaea it tne Larry Cottontail took a whack at him with a gun he had smuggled in, and made a break for tbe door. The ball will go in as the ladies that worked the old, was a member of the Brotherhood of Pony Riders. At one time, owing to the rider who was to relieve him having sheriff, who read: linen pillow cases for the board as the "Dear Larry: I had to raise struck the sheriff midway and he stag teen shot by outlaws, Cody had to take firm and that, in every respect, I- will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties and so direct all my actions as to win the confidence of all my em-ployers.

So help me God." Never was an oath kept with greater fidelity. Every man who has written from his personal observation of these hardy men, who rode the race of death on their little western ponies of fire and steel, has testified to their honesty. GAVE MAIL SERVICE The pony express was put in operation to meet the insistent call of the Western miner for better mail service from home. Hitherto his letters had traveled in sailing vessels around by way of the Isthmus, or on the overland stage, which took twenty-one days to make the journey from St. Joseph, to Sacramento.

It was a revolutionary epoch. The Atlantic cable had but recently been laid by Cyrus W. Field and the people of the United States were calling Europeans their neighbors. The great West was being peopled by a steady flood of immigration, men of brawn and brain, who were dreaming of the greatest country on earth, and were working out those dreams. In January, 1860, a Wall street syndicate made a proposition to transport the United States mail York to San Francisco for $5,000,000 per year and to exceed any time that had ever been made with the mail sacks across the continent.

RUSSELL'S PROPOSITION. thousand la9t night; Shylocks were af association couldn't ask them to furnish the linen and they wanted some linen ter me and gave me five hours to put up the dead man's route and then return, making a straight ride of 322 miles. cases. or blow about my going to Dutch Pete' gered, but managed tojget his gun out to hold the crowd back till his deputy come. Larry was disarmed and thrown into the dungeon.

Tbe sheriff was laid Bill was in the saddle thirty-two hours poker room, then I'd been all to the bad styled and rightly bo barbarous. Wherever they exist a cry goes up for better and more sanitary structures. Newspapers, boards of charities, prison societies, lead in the movement. They insist upon separate cells for the various classes, plenty of light and air and better food. This sentiment is causing an overhauling of the jail system and the establishment of prisons where sunshine and health go hand in hand.

This is well. "Then came the parole law, which is also wise when administered with discretion. Reform schools and industrial homes have been established. Still the continuously. 'OR bALE ream 01 match mares, six and Beven years old, weighing 1600 with the old man.

So I lifted old Jen The projectors of the pony express each, in foal by registered draft horse. up for aweek or so and then he fetched Larryjout land had a talk with him. Larry saw he was up against it, and was kin's wallet out of the safe to tide over I'll make a killin' one night this week. a. uilstrap, Elmer, Mo.

and staighten it out with Jenkins. All pretty sullen Fin ally the sheriff asked were heavy losers, even with the large bonus paid by the Government for the service. When the war came on a large amount of the property was taken, it is alleged, to meet the military necessities you do is to play mum as an oyster. I'll "'Do you still want to kill me see you through when I get back to Larry?" town. Thad" oi the Government.

The little prisoner thought that was a "What's that you're reading?" cried Even had it not been put out of busin funny question, but only shook his head the drummer, rising. reiormers are moving on. They want "That oh ah why er 'I just wanted to the sheriff told him, 'that if you have a feeling that ess by the war, the end of the pony express was close at hand. The telegraph was completed from the Missouri "Say! were you that sherm you capital punishment for murder abolished. "Looking back over the last half cen any more we'll just go out in tbe been talking about?" yard and fight it The bronzed man seemed to whiten as 'You mean you'll give me a gun he nervously pulled at his mustache.

river to the Pacific coast, and the best, the strongest and the bravest pony rider that lived could not complete with his scientific rival. The pony rider was the culmination of the "wild and woolly tury one cannot help but note the vivid contrast the wonderful progress that has been made hnder the law of mercy and kind treatment. But if it continues "I ask your pardon," he said, with cried Larry 'To be strange agitation "please forget what only said Larry. William H. Russell, a freighter of I said.

I had not intended to be at the same pace, without a resultant "Tbe sheriff handed him a loaded gun personal. West," the climax of frontier life, the picturesque end-piece of the great oc the plains and of tbe mountains, staggered the government with a proposi improvement in the morals of the na and said, "Come "Larry fingered the pistol for a minute or two and cidental drama. tion if crime increases as the rule of tion to handle the mail by pony express from St. Joseph to Sacramento 1960 In the above acknowledgment should handed it back. be made to Misses Julia and Sarah Rus- good treatment toward the criminal ad vances, there is bound to be a revul sion of public sentiment, and the hand he said, 'I wouldn't shoot at you again for a pot of money.

If anybody was to jump on you I'd fight sull for the use of the 'picture of their grandfather, William H. Russell. This miles in eight days by the watch! Russell, it is said.Jhad the support of Secretary of War Floyd. A bond of ling of the criminal will in all likelihood picture was reproduced from on old 20' be harsher than it was before tbe re for you. OOO.was put up to guarantee the per tali! formation was begun.

The people will 'Shake on that, said the dollar bill, an issue of the Kansas Valley bank, and probably is the only formance or something which was re garded by many as impossible. sheriff. "From that time on till court authentic picture of Mr. Russell in ex met Larry was a trusty in that jai not endure ingratitude from those who they are trying to help. The boy or man of evil tendencies must show an appreciation of what is being done for him, istence.

Ed The Macon Republican. A clause in the contract required that the letters he written on the thinnest of tissue'oaper. The tariff on each letter People warned the sheriff that he was acting the fool with a mighty bad man, bnt tbe sheriff said he guessed he knew NEWS ITEM. else he and the generation to follow was $5. Tuesday, April 3, 1860, at 7:15 must take the consequences of a bene how to run his business; if he made a The Wabaeh R.

R. on Sunday. Nov p. the first pony rider started out faction that has been scorned. mistake he had up a good bond." rom.St.

Joseph on the trail to the West. The journey was covered in less than The bronzed man paused to tuck his "A general amnesty for criminals is unwise. There are men who are not 7th commenced running train No. 3 into Omaha shortening the time of this train 20 minutes enabling passengers to reach Omaha at 11:15 p. m.

and make connection which they formerly were un the schedule time and Russells firm got napkinjunder his. chin, and arrange for attacking the oysters which had just I susceptible to good influences who are the contract to carry the mail with the been brought It. inherently criminals. The humanitarian pony express. able to do.

No. 12 now starts from Omaha, prev idea, so called, is more prominent if rou-nE CO.VC TO DO BUSINESS IN A BUSINESS LIKE WAY -YOU MUST HUN A BANK ACCOUNT WE EXTENT) EVERY FACILITY FOR THE PROP-ER HANDLING OF VUSlNESS ACCOUNTS -LOANS; DISCOUNT-INC, ALSO SELL CE'. TIFICA TES OF DEPOSIT. ious to Nov. 7th Council Bluffs was "If you don't mind my guessing the end of that story," said the drummer, It was a hard contract.

A defect any of the links along the bleak stretch of desert and mountain would threaten and pervades the legislation of the terminal for both these trains. whowas likewise say that country today to a broader and greater extent than it ever did beiore in the the bond and mean a tremendous Enan sheriff had reason to regret his confi No Alls: cial loss to tbe men who bad put every dence in Larry before he got through history of the republic. The reformers tell us this is an enlightened age we withlhim." must get away from the era of witch "He did. Larry was all to the bad burning, the whipping poet and etocks. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children.

Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ST? ZlSf--iP? Signature of LjuzSyUcUZ! No Lime Phosphates again." "That's the rule. Once thing they had in the- world in the en terprise. That accounts for the impera tive character of the oath. THE MISSOURI RIVER. There was a Missouri end to the spec macular race across tbe country.

mm The public, which ia optimistic, al crooklway8 a'crook it's in the blood, of SHE ways hoping jor the best, cne9 aad all the whitewashing this side China can't take it out." "Amen!" Prying committees and in.