Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-12 | Page 2 | Gaming for a Man's Life

Gaming for a Man's Life. , Before tho war a man was on trial in Lauderdale county for murder. The circumstantial evidence against tho man was very strong, and when the jury retired re-tired and took a ballot the result was six for conviction and six for acquittal. It remained this way tor two days and nights, neither side showing any disposition disposi-tion to change their minds. At last one of the jury, named Silvertooth, proposed a game of seven up between the opposing oppos-ing sides, one man to be selected from each side, and whoever won the losing side was to stand by the result. This was agreed to, aud Silvertooth, who was in favor of acquitting the prisoner, pris-oner, and another juror, who was strongly strong-ly in favor of conviction, commenced the game. It wus a holjfy contested game, and each juror had scored six points when it came Silvertooth's time to deal. He shuffled the cards carefully and dealt off the right number to each and then turned a jack, which made him win the game and which saved the prisoner's life. The six who were for conviction voted with the other six for acquittal and the prisoner was discharged from custody. -Atlanta Constitution.