Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — A Bold Bad man. [ARTICLE]

A Bold Bad man.

He called himsel “Colorado Jack,” and looked like he might be a bad man to handle. He was up for drunkenness. “Do yon plead guilty or not guilty ?” asked the Recorder. “You don’t try a man for murder before the inquests are held, do you? Don’t you take me around first to the undertaker’s shop to identify the remains? That’s what I have been accustomed to in Colorado.” “What remains? What inquest?” “Of the policemen who tried to arrest me.” “You didn’t kill any policemen.” “Well, don’t yon wait to see the result of their wounds before you try me? Don’t you take their ante-mortems and have them identifying me as the tornado that struck ’em? As a general thing they die before they can be taken to the hospital. ” ‘ ‘ I don’t know what you are talking about. You were arrested and brought to the lock-up by a little sick tailor on Galveston avenue, who was disturbed by your howling. ” “ Oh, well, that’s all right. At first I was afraid I had disgaced myself. Any citizen can arrest me with impunity. Civilians are beneath my resentment. You can’t make me destroy one. I might go along with one policeman if he was not armed and very polite. When I want a fight I want the genuine article. It takes five able-bodied policemen to make it interesting enough for me to let myself out. I never fish for sardines. In Colorado they usually bring out a battery ou me and a company of infantry. As long as you keep your police out of my way when lam drunk they are safe. That explains it. Tcouldn’t find the police to get up a matinee. That explains why there is no mortuary report this week—no vacancies on the force. I expect the police knew me and hired that little tailor to bring me in, knowing I only go to war with regularly ordained policemen.”—Galveston Neivs.