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Updated: May 8, 2025
At about one o'clock in the morning, two men went in there with their crow-bars to raise the gate so all the water could waste, and wash out the Chinamen's machinery. Slipping upon the miners engaged in their work of depredation, the marshall pulled his gun on them, and marched, them to the city lockup.
He was assisted into the buggy, and spent that night in the lockup. "Did he take anything from you, Carl?" asked Mr. Jennings. "No, sir; but I was in considerable danger. How strong you are!" he added, admiringly. "Strength isn't always according to size!" said the little man, quietly. "Nature gave me a powerful, though small, frame, and I have increased my strength by gymnastic exercise." Mr.
'Course if it had been some feller who was inclined to git on a tear and raise thunder, I'd 'a' jest gone out and muckled onto him and shoved him into the lockup. But I did kinder hate to lock Eli up. "I went over to Uncle Eb's lookin' for him, and there was Eben out in the woodshed a-snoozin' on a hoss blanket. Took me 'bout fifteen minutes to wake him up.
The first thing he did in Australia was to get into the lockup, and the next thing he did was to proclaim himself an earl in the police court in the morning and fail to prove it. When in doubt, tell the truth. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes.
At last drunkenness overcame the guests; Pugatchéf fell asleep in his place, and his companions rose, making me a sign to leave him. I went out with them. By the order of Khlopúsha the sentry took me to the lockup, where I found Savéliitch, and I was left alone with him under lock and key. My retainer was so astounded by the turn affairs had taken that he did not address a single question to me.
Each one was crowded with magnificent gems that flashed under the rays of the flashlamp! The men were marched away to the village, where they were incarcerated in the village lockup.
Perez rode behind, looking neither to the right hand or the left, and taking heed of nothing, and Abner seeing his condition, tacitly assumed command. Two or three fellows, too utterly drunk to walk, had been perforce left behind on the tavern floor, destined to be ignominiously dragged off to the lockup by the citizens before the rebel force was fairly out of sight.
Once in a regular lockup, the chances of getting out would be indeed slim. I reasoned that the best thing to do was to escape while there was a chance. Perhaps I was wrong in this conclusion, but I was only a country boy, and I had a horror of stone walls and iron bars. Escape! No sooner had the thought entered my mind than I was wrapped up in it. Undoubtedly it was the best thing to do.
Cahill has a strongbox at the stage station, and Stein some kind of a lockup at his store—that’s the total for the town. We haven’t grown to the size for a real banking establishment—" "Hey, Reese, th’ Old Man about—?" Shannon was in the doorway. In the full light of day he looked younger. Drew was puzzled. That strange animosity which had flashed between them last night—why had he felt it?
Then a thought of his own came to him, "You wouldn't want the police coming round and taking you off to the lockup, would you? I saw 'em take Binney Rogers one time, just because he broke a window that he didn't mean to. He was only shying a rock at a sparrow.
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