. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . estimony were notably sig-nificant. One was contributed by the Marquis: ODonald and Luflfsey discharged all the barrelsof their revolvers, he said, and then began toshoot with their rifles. The other item was con-tributed by Sheriff Harmon, who arrested ODonaldand Dutch Wannigan immediately after theaffray. He testified that the guns and pistols ofthe hunters were loaded when handed to him. The jury made no attempt to pick its way throughcontradictions such as this, and returned to thecourt room after an absence of ten minutes with averdict of not guilty. The Mar
. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . estimony were notably sig-nificant. One was contributed by the Marquis: ODonald and Luflfsey discharged all the barrelsof their revolvers, he said, and then began toshoot with their rifles. The other item was con-tributed by Sheriff Harmon, who arrested ODonaldand Dutch Wannigan immediately after theaffray. He testified that the guns and pistols ofthe hunters were loaded when handed to him. The jury made no attempt to pick its way throughcontradictions such as this, and returned to thecourt room after an absence of ten minutes with averdict of not guilty. The Marquiss acquittal did not, it seems, mollifyhis bitterness toward Roosevelt. He prided himselfon his judgment, as he had once informed HowardEaton, but his judgment had a habit of basing itsconclusions on somewhat nebulous premises. Twoor three bits of circumstantial evidence had servedto convince the Marquis definitely that Roosevelthad been the impelling force behind the fact that Dutch Wannigan was an employee. THE MARQUIS SEES RED 347 of Roosevelts, in itself, not unnaturally, perhaps,stirred the Marquiss ire. When he was told, how-ever, that Dutch Wannigan, before departingfor the trial at Mandan, had received money fromJoe Ferris, his suspicions appeared confirmed, forJoe was known to be Roosevelts close friend, andit was an open secret that Roosevelt was financ-ing Joes venture in storekeeping. If his suspicionsneeded further confirmation, they seemed to get itwhen a little, black-haired Irishman, named JimmieMcShane, otherwise known as Dynamite Jimmie,received a sum of money from Joe Ferris and ap-peared at the trial as the first witness for the prosecu-tion. On the surface the case against Roosevelt wasconvincing, and the Marquis evidently did not dipbeneath it. If he had, he would have realized thatJoe Ferris was the acknowledged banker of the BadLands to whom practically all the thrifty souls amongthe cowpunchers brought a portion of their wagesfor safe
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