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PAGE 9. Buxton.
The Livery Stable entrance where the Lobbins Brothers were in possession. Just a few yards south of the Livery Stable was a building that had just been finished all except the doors had not been hung to be used by Charley Hartman as a Shoe and clothing store and the north part as a jewelry shop. All of these places and descriptions would be unimportant but it is necessary for the future events that did occur in this area. I am leaving the shoe store to inspect the new building across the street so I climbed up in the jewelry store door which was a the north end and was looking around when I heard something like an explosion about what one would expect from a fire cracker; I immediately looked out of the door and saw Jim Lobbins standing near a white man with a 2 X 4 in his hands; he threw the two by four down and walked over to the livery stable and so did I; then a man asked him why did you hit that man and he remarked "because he would not give me a drink of whiskey. The victim died that night and Lobbins was arrested and the trial was held in Mahaska County at Oskaloosa. Life did not seem to be so important in the early part of the Centery. I was a witness and the Verdict was Man Slaughter and Jim Lobbins was free in five or six years. At a later time it may have been called first degree murder. This man was unlike his brothers and relations for something was wrong with him mentally. Walker Reasby was an orthodox person in his way of thinking; he was superstitious about everything. He was not afraid of anything and was known to be the breaker of wild horses; also was known to have taken the billy club and revolver from two policemen. Several Hundred branded mustangs were brought in from the west and the town people; Livery stable and farmers bought them at auction on sale. One Horse was so high spirited and cheap that nobody wanted; but Walker Reasby bought him for $5.00 dollars and proceded to teach him to be a beast of Burden; but this horse fought him for hours,- biting; kicking and striking with his front feet; squeeling and would not cooperate in any manner so after being subjects to so nuch abuse and pain he gave up and dropped down and died. Walker Reasby was so much disliked by so many people that he had very few friend but he liked me for some reason and usually talked to me confidentially; He believed in revenge and told me more than once that night had no "eyes". A light was at the entrance to the livery stable and 10 or 11 men were standing around talking when some one at the rear end of the livery stable fired eleven shots into that group of men but fortunately only Fred Gans and and a fellow that was called Slim were struct but not seriously. Every body had an idea who did the shooting but they wanted to be sure so they sent Knoxville for the Officers to bring the Blood Hounds to Buxton. They were put on the trail at the rear of the livery stable and they went across Bluff Creek and through the woods and up through town to Walker Reasby's house. This kind of circumstancial evidence

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PAGE 9. Buxton. The Livery Stable entrance where the Lobbins Brothers were in possession. Just a few yards south of the Livery Stable was a building that had just been finished all except the doors had not been hung to be used by Charley Hartman as a Shoe and clothing store and the north part as a jewelry shop. All of these places and descriptions would be unimportant but it is necessary for the future events that did occur in this area. I am leaving the shoe store to inspect the new building across the street so I climbed up in the jewelry store door which was a the north end and was looking around when I heard something like an explosion about what one would expect from a fire cracker; I immediately looked out of the door and saw Jim Lobbins standing near a white man with a 2 X 4 in his hands; he threw the two by four down and walked over to the livery stable and so did I; then a man asked him why did you hit that man and he remarked "because he would not give me a drink of whiskey. The victim died that night and Lobbins was arrested and the trial was held in Mahaska County at Oskaloosa. Life did not seem to be so important in the early part of the Centery. I was a witness and the Verdict was Man Slaughter and Jim Lobbins was free in five or six years. At a later time it may have been called first degree murder. This man was unlike his brothers and relations for something was wrong with him mentally. Walker Reasby was an orthodox person in his way of thinking; he was superstitious about everything. He was not afraid of anything and was known to be the breaker of wild horses; also was known to have taken the billy club and revolver from two policemen. Several Hundred branded mustangs were brought in from the west and the town people; Livery stable and farmers bought them at auction on sale. One Horse was so high spirited and cheap that nobody wanted; but Walker Reasby bought him for $5.00 dollars and proceded to teach him to be a beast of Burden; but this horse fought him for hours,- biting; kicking and striking with his front feet; squeeling and would not cooperate in any manner so after being subjects to so nuch abuse and pain he gave up and dropped down and died. Walker Reasby was so much disliked by so many people that he had very few friend but he liked me for some reason and usually talked to me confidentially; He believed in revenge and told me more than once that night had no "eyes". A light was at the entrance to the livery stable and 10 or 11 men were standing around talking when some one at the rear end of the livery stable fired eleven shots into that group of men but fortunately only Fred Gans and and a fellow that was called Slim were struct but not seriously. Every body had an idea who did the shooting but they wanted to be sure so they sent Knoxville for the Officers to bring the Blood Hounds to Buxton. They were put on the trail at the rear of the livery stable and they went across Bluff Creek and through the woods and up through town to Walker Reasby's house. This kind of circumstancial evidence