Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . a STUTTERIN ANDY OYEZ, oyez, o-y-e-z, the Honorable Court of theThird Judicial District of the State of New Mex-ico is now in session, cried the one-armed bailiff, and thedistrict court in Alamo came to order for the afternoon ses- sion. The judge settled back in his easy chair; the twelvejurymen at his left idly watched the crowd pour into thelittle courtroom. By the time the prisoner had been es-corted in by the sheriff, every inch of space was occupied byeager spectators, both men and women; for the case ofAndy Mor
Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . a STUTTERIN ANDY OYEZ, oyez, o-y-e-z, the Honorable Court of theThird Judicial District of the State of New Mex-ico is now in session, cried the one-armed bailiff, and thedistrict court in Alamo came to order for the afternoon ses- sion. The judge settled back in his easy chair; the twelvejurymen at his left idly watched the crowd pour into thelittle courtroom. By the time the prisoner had been es-corted in by the sheriff, every inch of space was occupied byeager spectators, both men and women; for the case ofAndy Morrow, locally known as Stutterin Andy,charged by the grand jury with stealing one red yearlingbranded X V from Joseph Barker, had attracted the atten-tion of the entire community. During the morning session, the prosecution had giventheir side of the case. Old man Barker and a detective fromDenver had each testified to finding the hide of a yearlingbearing Barkers well-known brand, buried beneath a pileof brush on Morrows dry farm claim. The resurrected hide was also place
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