[Sam Davis, A Carson Calumny, Reno Evening Gazette, May 9, 1881]

 

A CARSON CALUMNY.

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What will the Tar-and-Feather Brigade do About It?

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            Sam Davis in the Appeal of Sunday says :

            "Yesterday afternoon Louis Grabson was tried before Justice Cary on the charge of breaking into a house near the railroad track and taking various articles of household furniture.

            'It appears that you took about everything in sight,' said the Court sternly.

            'Do you think me wholly depraved, your Honor,' said the prisoner with tears starting to his eyes. 'I left a fine red-hot stove, worth at least twenty-five dollars.'

            'Where are you from, my good man?' asked his Honor, kindly.

            'Reno,' replied the man, reluctantly.

            The Court was buried in thought, and then, leaning over the desk, said :

            'Sheriff, release the prisoner. A man from Reno who would decline to take a red-hot stove, when he had such a good show, is not, in my opinion, wholly bad. Considering his associations, I think he deserves much credit.'

            'Let him go,' shouted the spectators, throwing up their hats, and the man was taken out of Court on the shoulders of the crowd. Later in the day, when slightly inebriated, he acknowledged that he had only lived in Reno six months, and his popularity waned."