Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — From the Man With the Gun. [ARTICLE]

From the Man With the Gun.

“The Republican has received from C. B. Parker, the party who pursued and shot at Max Sales, at Shelby, a letter of thanks for our “fair and honorable mention,” of himself and the unfortunate lady he wss defending on that occasion. Mr. Parker says his only regret connected with the affair was that he did not “kill the dog, and take the chances of the halter.” He believes the girl to have been as pure as any that ever lived until “he drugged her with morphine and whisky.” He refers to all the state and city officers at Lincoln, Neb., his home, as to his standing there. He has educated and clothed the girl for the past few years and paid all her bills, as he had promised her mother on her death bed, he would do. If the facts are all as Mr. Parker claims, and we are very much disposed to believe, he would not have. been in any danger pf a halter, had he made a finish Sales, when be got after him St Shelby. x