Barton County KS Archives History - Books .....An Early Incident 1912 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com July 23, 2005, 1:38 am Book Title: Biographical History Of Barton County AN EARLY DAY INCIDENT By Edwin Tyler WAY back in the early days when George N. Moses was sheriff of the county. Great Bend at that time was the stopping place of notorious bad men. It was in 1873 that Harry Lovet then of Newton, came to Great Bend with an outfit consisting of the remnants of a dance hall which he had operated at Newton. The town company would not let him have a lot but he managed to get in debt to Colonel Tom Stone, refused to pay him and hiked for Dodge City. The sheriff (George Moses) told the Colonel to get him a pony. Mounting the pony and with his old needle gun ready for action he went west on the trail like greased lightning. After reaching a point about where Henry Fruit's farm is located George overtook Lovet's outfit. Dismounting and leveling the needle gun at Lovet he ordered him to hold his hands up. Lovet raised his hands and asked: "What is wanted?" George said, "I want that money you owe Tom Stone." "Then come and get it," said Lovet, and George got it. On another occasion a man by the name of Crockett was in town and said he was looking for the marshal, that he had three of them to his credit and that he was a dangerous man to trifle with. George Moses was notified and being the sheriff he went out to look for Crockett. He met him on the street, walked up to him and said: "How do you do?" Crockett stuck out his hand, and as he did so George grasped it and with a quick wrench threw the man to the ground, disarmed him and took him to jail. The next morning the fellow had sobered up and George gave him back his gun and told him the next time he came to town to keep sober and keep out of trouble. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/barton/history/1912/biograph/anearlyi29ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb