Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 13

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, The Arizona Sheriff |Nimble Gun and Motor Car Help Him to | Bring Swift and Sure Justice 1925 HE SAW. 12 DIE | westérn tourist w If any see a real, honeststo-goodhe zona deputy sheriff” who took complacently on Ife after see- ng a dozen men die in shoe leather and'iwho can beat any living matic pistol toter to the with is old peafl-bandled, silver- mounted six shooter, just drop ¢ r o Florenle, seat of Pinal county } all on Chester McGee. ' Friendlfest_ man you'd ever meet, | Chester. Sociable and hospitable is any westerner, most intere new irrigation proje: ad east of the Salt River Dam project, which soon wil ke his 140-acre hor Jorence amid the suhuaro, tus, bloom like a rose garden. Killings are just killings—that's dl—with him. They» ought not to happen, for it's bad business to take » Mfe. But they do happen, so there's no use getting squeamish | about “ft and letting it upset your life, evén If you are a deputy sheriff. Now, there was the time when he was deputy under his brother, down at Ray, a Mex: n mining town. He had a fine old fellow for jailer. One evening inasmuch as they only had a couple of vagrants in the loc! "up, the old jailer walked a piece} home with Chester, stopping in \the saloon for a glass of beer and’ a} sandwich. Hardly “ten. minutes had- passed, after McGee left him, before he got word there had been a shooting in For three days and nights, Monroe hid out in Crook National forest, | keeping out of. sight in the forests of cholla (pronounced choy-ya), the devil-cactus, most terrible of the spiny vegetation of the Arizona mountains. But the , Studebaker stops at nothing, and when he moved out for water, McGee was waiting for him, hidden behind the well Mon life imprisonment v as Ed Fondren, surly, bstinate prospector of terrible mper, known for miles around as | j | a bad hombre when “riled | He had a mining claim up in the s, and sought to stake out sther. . Another prospector had | been there for some time, and the! two quarreled. Fondren’s temper / rose, and, in a’ terrific rage, he slew the other miner, and then, turning on the latter's “two horses, two burros and his dog, killed every liv- ing thing on the place. McGee was notified, and the old Studebaker car started for Superior, up in the Crook mountains, between | Dromedary and Picketpost peaks. “Guess my 45 was as good as his,” | says McGee, “so there really wasn’t | much argument, and I brought him | in and he got life.” ' That's all he says, but he brought the murderer all the way into Flor- ence, alone, without handcuffs. He forgets that in telling the story. “Sometimes it's funny,” smiles the placid.lifed deputy whose. blue eyes have seen a dozen men die, “I never laughed so much as I did the day Deputy Kent and | went over to get HINT OR. TWO Confesses Cremating that very saloon. In half that time he was running into the saloon. There lay the old jailer, dead. He had fallen -upon his face, which meant to McGee that he had been shot through the stomach. Jack Muhroe, the killer, Kad come in, figuring that, Chester was home,.and tried to hold up the saloon, The the Blackwater Indian, Big Blow, who had gone on a tear and dragged his squaws around by the hair some- thing scandalous. . ‘ “We found him, but he wouldn't get off the ground. Kent, who likes his eats, was hungry, and he didn't have much patfence. Wo always carry a rope on-otr Studebaker car, like we used to at our saddle. “Kent got out the rope and lald it over the Indian’s shoulders and I rted up, while Kent, whose figure old jailer had started to draw his gun, but too late. For Real | is more comfortable than skinny, i kinda gave him a lift once in awhile Paige and Jewett with his heavy boots. Then the Repairing Blackwater decided he'd rather walk SEE OSCAR than be drug. Oscar Redenbo 480 West Yellowstone Phone 1692 “We brought him clean in to the pen with that rope, but you never saw so funny a sight as Kent encour- aging that Indian to walk, running the step-son he decapitated; and an to keep up with us." The CHOICE of Experienced Car Owners Hundreds of thousands of experienced car owners have selécted VESTA to replace their original equip- ment batteries. battery service. . You, foo, can profit by the quality of VESTA, the bat- tery which lasts longer, requires so little attention, and costs less per month of service. Only VESTA has the patented Isolators and Impreg- nated Mats which prevent the various sorts of short circuiting that shorten battery life. Remember that we _ service all batteries, regardless of their make. Let us attend to this next time for ~ VESTA Costs less per month of service. 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Snow confesses cremating wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Old, and decapitating his step-s Bernie Connally, 19 years old A. speedy trial and convict predicted in the his S.A ally, his y Snow, Bernie Con and his mother-in-l lived gegher in the small mf side of a rockbound hill. T r tually were unknown to their nei} bors, who looked upon them wit suspicion because of an old story that Snow was a fugitive from jus- tice. Quarrels Frequent ‘The quarters were small, food searce and quagrels frequent. Snow ment with his wife on e stepson took his mo- ve “T had to kill him tn self-defense,” Snow sald. Mrs. Snow then took a gun down off the wall and began firing at her husband, Snow declares. He re. turned the shets. His first bullet went complet through his wife's bi and lodged in his mother-in BATTERIE And all that goes with them. Let an Expert Examine the Electrical Parts of Your Car. SANDS BATTERY STATION 430 West Yellowstone Phone 1692 YOU KNOW CREAT ND 4 GI a GIG POP PACKAGE 26.— the ME AL--- HA, HA Y GEE, ITS CERTAINLY F. M. Snow, the slayer; his house In the hills; the fireplace in which he burned two women; Bernie Connally, officer digging for haman ashes, “I killed tiem both with the'same | where he pitched it over the. fence buliet,” Snow said. “They would | into a goat pasture. ferde ikittantcriedt | discovered the head and Fearing discovery, he placed the | two bodies in the fireplace and’ cre-| snow putte matéd them. Instead of cremating® the boy’ body, he cut off the shead, hid it onder the floor of a deserted house uther back: in the hills and took | © torso down the road three miles! Sr home authorities found nbout In his kitchen. At first he expressed surprise at the hunter's find and said that his vife and her mother were visiting Ww Then the officers found nan teeth In the fireplace, and Ww confessed. n | of Another . Dear Mrs. Thompson: T am in love | with a young married man of this own ‘and hope I can gain his love | w ‘rom his wife. He does not live with Dear Mrs. T vo women in ou ted me to jes, Mrs smpson: There are neighborhood that write you about their their hus- ipeonus mpson, sands 4 his wit a long time. She sued and leave them at him for divorce but {t was not] tight. 0 to the show,. but granted. I call him up often and| hey never take the girls with them. try and make dates but he refuses | ne of the boys said he was not go: me every time. He works {n a sa-| ‘ng to the show. So his wife sald, loon but he does not drink at all.| “Alright, I'll not go to Mrs, So-and When I try and make dates with| % und I'll stay here and im, he tells me he's got a wife and Ip take care of the chil Joes not want to go with no girls. I} trer he went upstairs and got cnow ife real coat and t 1 t to town KEMMER ise CAN DO IT! | When others can’t: A FRIEND. Do you think this man ever respect y him? 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' dventures of Jack Keefe ZZ Dear Jack: I met a couple of the boys the other day and they were all talking about you and what a big hit you were making in the circus. That is great Jack and we all hope that you con- tinue to do so as there is going to be an awful lot of weeding out of all the deadwood this winter. We hear that you are knocking them all dead in every town in your new profession as a boxer so a *2w of us boys thought it would be nice to send you a little xmas To GE ULAZ quest of Dempsey’s crown. Hope this reaches you in time for the big Holiday. Ray Schalk AIN'T THAT NICE OF THEN FELLAS “To SEND ME @ PRESENT? wives set them as guards over chil- dren. That ‘hardly appeals \to a man who has been working all day. He, wants relaxation in the evening. In. a) of denytr husbands ens wives s) provide it for hem. Tell your neighbors to put hildren to bed up nd e the house so attrac und ful that the husbands won't want to go out. 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