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MAS ALSO VERY MEAT BATH
Lincoln In The Seventies
In the early seventies society at Lin. about sixty miles west of here; but
coin had not yet that fully developed you touch him at the peril of your
respect for the law which It Js said to life."
possess today. The two score years and "Well." was the rejoinder, "I have no
more that have elapse' since then have need to touch him. I merely wished
made a vast difference In the methods to ee him on a little business matter."
of dealing with crime. The way men With a few more words, the lawyer
had to punish certain Infringements of ,eft the resort nml SOUKht a hoteI
the law.or at least dldpunlsh them, be- AVhHe thinking of the matter, he looked
fore law had grown strongarms Is well about hlm to see what kln1 of help wa8
Illustrated by the following story. It to be had for the remaln,ier of the trlp.
came to me almost directly from the for he had caimiy determined to go out
lips of one of the actors. It Is a bit of to the raroad camp and reCover the
history connected with Lincoln, and in- 8tolen teams and waKons. To one of the
volves one of the notorious characters feows about the hote) apparently not
seen upon her streets until recently. then engaged In any business, whose
This narrative will. I doubt not. fall aPpearance pleased him. he addressed
under the notice of more than one who some queatIon8. Finding him available
had glimpses of the series of events as and able to use a revolver when and
they were being enacted. only when he was toId he enisted the
The first act In the drama is the steal- fellow In his service, and instructed him
Ing of several teams of mules and to get two more men of the same stamp,
horses by Mike Sheedy, a brother of The party of four was soon made up
the John Sheedy, concerning whose and started out to find the camp of rail
death occurred one of the notable crim- road graders. They came upon it where
inal trials in Lincoln. Mike was In- John Sheedy had indicated, but they
terested in some railroad grading which did not enter the place at once or re
was done some sixty miles west of veal their presence. "While waiting for
Lincoln, and needed more teams to the darkness of night to bring a favor
accomplish the work. Knowing of. able moment for seizing the stolen
certain animals and wagons at a small property, which they ascertained to be
Missouri hamlet that were quite to his intact, they took care to locate each
purpose, he forthwith visited the place piece and animal. About two o'clock
and made way with them. in the morning, when the silence of
A cousin of the man who thus lost profound slumber had settled down ov-
his horses, was a young attorney at er the camp, the four approached the
Gallatin, in the same state, an able little group of tents. Entering the one
lawyer, a man full of enterprise, and In which they knew Mike Sheedy to
one who understodd well the secrets of be, the lawyer, revolver In hand, woke
dealing with men. He undertook the him with some word of address.
case for his cousin, and started for Lin
coln. Only a small wooden station
house marked the site where now the
large Burlington and Missouri depot
stands. Stepping from the platform, he
passed up the road to the centre of the
"Is that you, Mr. B.?" asked the start
led man, addressing the lawyer by
name.
"Yes, It is I," was the answer. The
four men then bound the horse-thief
hand and foot. Fastening his wife the
town. Four or five years before, the same way they left that tent and went
place had been laid out for a capital to the others In turn. There were but
city, and a marked growth had been few men In camp, two or three of whom
made; but it was still simply a fron- they decided to take with them to pilot
tier village. Not a single shanty the teams back to Nebraska City. "Wlth
adorned the foot of the hill where the out delay the horses and mules were
depot was. As he approached tho started on their return trip to Missouri,
group of stores clustered about the The lawyer directed that his comrades
square even then known as "Post Of- should take the southern route, pas
fice square." he paused to Inquire of a slnpr many miles to the south of Lin-passer-by
where he could find John coin, while he himself should take the
Sheedy. The man looked at him with risk of returning to Lincoln. He had
an expression of inquiry in his features, no intention of being delayed by the
which might have been Interpreted to comparatively slow livery team. In
mean, "What do you want with a gam- stead he drove to the nearest station,
bier?" and said, "Right over there in and took the train. At the place
that biiilding. stranger. That's his where he was thus compelled to leave
place of business." The lawyer strolled the livery, he reported the plight In
over across the square and entered the which he had left the graders, and ar
house. Scattered about a fair-sized ranged for their release.
room were several chairs, and behind
the only table in the room sat a man
reading a newspaper. Back of the man,
upon the wall, were sets of pigeon-
The day was not far gone when he
stepped once more from the train at
the Lincoln depot. Before he had
left the platform one of the hotel boys
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holes containing packs of cards, and on came to him with the information,
the table lay two revolvers with cards. "John Sheedy is gunning for you." He
As the lawyer entered, the man looked sent the boy to the livery barn to set
up. "With a gesture the gambler re- tie the bill, while he himself went to the
marked In a business tone, "Have a building that served the B. & M. as a
chair." At the same time he laid aside round-house, and endeavored to engage
his paper and pushed one of the revol- a special engine to Nebraska City,
vers and a pack of cards toward the "How much have you?" said the rail-
other side of the table. "Is this Mr.
Sheedy?" asked the lawyer. "Yes,"
was the reply, "It Is." Said the stran
ger. "I haven't time for a game to-day,
Mr. Sheedy. Can you tell me where
your brother Mike is?" "Without seem
Ing surprised, Mr. Sheedy quickly
asked, "What do you want with Mike?"
"I have some business with him,"
said the lawyer. "Without change in
the hard features of his face, Mr.
road official.
"One hundred and twenty-five" said
the lawyer, drawing it from his pocket.
The railroad man took it, but handed
a small part of It back to him. "All
right" was the word, and not many
minutes elapsed before the engine,
which had aready some steam up, was
moving slowly from the vicinity of
the depot.
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