Show ME tills it OF Jt IVELL CAREER OF oil A BRIGHT BUT III I 1 L life K clersa so a haloon ard t lawer nna ud 4 a B woe won tb tir grand jarf jury with ft cleam B dewelt who died lied recently la in ky i 0 wild ono of tit lie odd ft characters that ever lived illi lift ilea from burn the station of tho the aloon keeper to a responsible judicial position po altion will be uw ilia theme of tory stary teller tellers for many a lone IMN day jewell wai was bom ism la in ext county ky i 0 about 98 year ago ilo ile WM who the on an of poor parent parents and enjoyed no edu cati cual iafe LW tho the tivo count country q of that oy day ilo ila to manhood ith a limit ed d education but he hoaf was a mau wall of ranch tsuch lu wn was a good student of I 1 iiama oman nature poop bourd ed a legal mind 24 all a ono of lj isla friend friends paid tocayo vold LAVA made A great dawyer had IM be received lio toc proper curly early t milling ile lagna alfo as M a e saloon in C er ellke j aks II 11 ile removed to lexington about 1870 where ho he tn ili tho saloon bu baloe until 1878 during that year a is wrong publio sentiment wen wall aroused tro against tha loon i and bd the tb n and jorice juries returning many la in 11 laments jim jewell an lio ito was known went beford one of the grand jurim carrying under bli his root coat a box of the finest havana cigar cigars bo w admit admitted tod into the jury room lio lie old said el I 1 want you to same of the hot best cigars with roe me lat that were ever brought to no pro zed tho wk and the mif half decd at his audacity Is belpon md themo olVes to till ilia havanah Ha vanan and alla th they 7 r ta alem J ar T 11 uld d llulu lu W u v in a led bad business and that if the lory jury coald d cot vot indict him lio he would sell all out act and quit by this time ho the ono flavor of the cigars had bad toothed soothed ho wet juron jurors con alde older raLly ably and ud of becoming indignant at him for his hi boldness they told d it laira they would cot not indict him if bo would hi his promise prom lec howse wu true to his word old sold oat out hie his saloon and ad opened A confectionery and mut nt which be conducted for several years in the meantime 1 he was elected meg mag la tr and be at once took t up I 1 the study of lew law ho ila then raa rw for 3 clerk erk of ur the recorder no orders court mutt and was elected he beld both erred served out oue one term M clerk of the th court and without t resigning ke as magl itrato became A candidate for recorder against Z ia L hutchins the fight between tho two wa was eo so bitter that in tho interest Inter cut ot bar rooty both tuen ten were induced to draw off and joreca boulo amith waa was elec elected teL in ai 1 jewell again bacomo a candidate for recorder corder rr all tho time holding on to the bace of magistrate and in the tho race for the nomination which followed lie he billy easily defeated judge smith who was a for election reelection re ho bad had held the omoo of or police judge ever inco simm while magistrate judge jewell coca an cace in the courthouse and ie to kased to pay any rent cr holding that he had a right as magia to have an nu in III that building bull din at the cc maty expense the fame same a the cheriff he circuit clerk or it tho county clerk while the floral courty court wn rs preparing to have him ejected jewell went before the then in aulon 1 and lob bled blod through a bill which took the control conw of the courthouses of the detato out of tho the lauds of tho fiscal court and he remained reni Mined in the building Lull ding os as long w m be desired courier journal |