Show eclipse of a i bad man desperados sway was as broken when he met a man alan of real nerve incident of the days that have long since disappeared never to return 1 I am clad glad to be able tn sa eay y that the old time feuda feuds which used t to to prevail I 1 lu in my state have died out and that the esmile killings which ac com compan pantel lel thea them are nothing but un pleasant memories remarked capt N at atanson of galveston Galve united states marhal marshal for the bouthern southern district of texas at the riggs house it as my late to jow some ot of the bad men who turned things upside down in Sout southern heru texas a ter of a century aco ago they are about all dead and no successors can take their place for our people will never again tolerate inch such disturbers of the peace one of the worst of the bad men of that day was the noto luus john wesley hardin ti te was hie his boast that he hail bait killed twenty eight men for a ions long clinti he was the ter of gonzales conaty comity and anti of all the surrounding country lie was aas an in corrigible cattau and horse thief ani and a who killed without remorse 1 I nally a day of came ani he was caught and untraced to r P twenty dye year in the detate a penitentiary at lie ie a model prisoner and bad had to lie be arule th huot watt it he voul d top stop Ir inking mr ray peoli woold let bici him call on me aguin again edilh 11 daes he drink wt hire a ash ernie olva lite a to betor w whipped hipped a time or two but at length he emerged from prim primi i I 1 and went back to the scene ot of hid former rimes A hot local political light fight in the election el eLtion of a the he lit 11 ot or gonzales county was on and hardin took an active part in the contest lie ile was still rear bearded ded el as dangerous and greatly dreaded one day he be and the candidate against bom he lie was work ins ing met and a quarrel ensued this candidate jones by name was as as fearless a man as ever lived and the way he denounced hardin was something to r member you have he salt sail according to your own boasts killed twenty eight men I 1 am heie here to say ay that never a one of the lot did you lay slay when he hail hall hia his face toward ou ivery man ot of them was as hot shot in the back o I 0 ou are a great big codara a as well ai al a murderer and anti I 1 will give ou on if you III dare to contradict what I 1 have aid said I 1 can make any 16 year old DOV bov in town wl i you alardin dido t open bis his mouth but slunk away followed by a storta ot jars he ile left ift the county and was tho sho aly afterward killed la 11 HI lit lao I 1 Wash lexton pot w w v v riita 14 thins tike like a cf cat ar old was getting a ahja cr or uko ilke te Is it aay any way warl |