Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — Couldn’t Really Wait for the Hanging. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Really Wait for the Hanging.

“What’s all this crowd around for?” asked Mr. Mclver, of Texas, when the captain of the regulators caught up with him. “They’ve come to see the hanging,” said the Captain; “man going to be hanged in a minute; better wait and see it.” “ ’Fraid won’t have time,” said Mr. Mclver, walking sideways and keeping his hands down. “Got a horse out here in the brush 1 want to look after; ’fraid she’s got a spavin cornin’.” “ That’s it,” the Captain said. “ Little sorrel mare, with blaze face and two white feet—my mare and you’re the man. Guess you had better stay for the hangin’.” “Can’t,” said Mr. Mclver, “I’ve got to go to the shootin’. ” So saying, he got his hand on his gun, filled a couple of regulators full of holes, and, with the sardonic laugh of a man who was disappointed because he couldn’t stay M to the bangin',” he disappeared in the brash to look after that spavin.