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Was void and useless since it would not Qualify in court so nothing was done but later in the next year when a large group of men were gambling in the bed of dry Bluff Creek the fellow called Slim that was struck by a bullet tried to kill Walker Reasby for I was told that he took good aim by resting his gun across his arm while Walker was running and missed him both times. He later swore that he would kill Walker some day but he never did. Walker Reasby was not an outlaw but trouble followed him about as clost as his shadow. The stage was set by several youngsters to eliminate him in a pool hall owned by Floyd Monroe. It was night when trouble started and some one shot out the lights and they all took a shot in his direction but only one bullet found its mark and it hit a large size dice in his pocket which deflected the bullet ; The next day he was showing Reuben Gaines Sr. the hole in his vest and the dice which he claimed saved his life. Later in life and after the town was gone he moved to DesMoines, Iowa and had some trouble with a Buxtonium whose name was Johnie Hughes so he got a small iron pipe and painted it like a barbers pole to use as a cane and when Johnie Hughes passed Walker on the street he whammed him across the legs; thereby disrupting his locomotion because he had broken both legs and for that I am told he got three years in the pen and never survived very long after he was set free. Charley Shelton as I have stated was the manager of the shoe and dry good store for Reuben Gaines Sr. and and his Brother. I helped very little but stayed with him at night since there was a bed room in the North east corner of the store and it was also better security in keepin people from breaking in while he was away. The bed room walls were only eight feet high with all of the top open, so anything said in the store was easly heard at any place in the store. Charlie and I were very good friends but his salary was not enough to provide the kind of life that he was having so with no one to check even an inventory, he formed his own business "BARTER & EXCHANG
He would come into the store at all hours of night; usually two or  three times a week with a girl or sometimes two girls and I would always pretend that I was asleep. He would barter merchandise in the way of shoes and clothing for something that could not be credited in the Ledger. I never said anything to my father but I knew there would never be any profit sharing with so much merchandise missing without any dollars and cents to establish a bonafide sale. 
Charley took inventories several times a year but no one but he would know the financial condition of the remaining stock. He had one clost friend that was about ten years his senior and his name was Tom Peaco and they would go across the street to the livery stable and hire a serry to take girls riding quite often. At one o'clock at night I heard the key turn in the lock and Charley came in with two girls and I reconized one's voice as Rachael but I

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PAGE 10. Buxton Was void and useless since it would not Qualify in court so nothing was done but later in the next year when a large group of men were gambling in the bed of dry Bluff Creek the fellow called Slim that was struck by a bullet tried to kill Walker Reasby for I was told that he took good aim by resting his gun across his arm while Walker was running and missed him both times. He later swore that he would kill Walker some day but he never did. Walker Reasby was not an outlaw but trouble followed him about as clost as his shadow. The stage was set by several youngsters to eliminate him in a pool hall owned by Floyd Monroe. It was night when trouble started and some one shot out the lights and they all took a shot in his direction but only one bullet found its mark and it hit a large size dice in his pocket which deflected the bullet ; The next day he was showing Reuben Gaines Sr. the hole in his vest and the dice which he claimed saved his life. Later in life and after the town was gone he moved to DesMoines, Iowa and had some trouble with a Buxtonium whose name was Johnie Hughes so he got a small iron pipe and painted it like a barbers pole to use as a cane and when Johnie Hughes passed Walker on the street he whammed him across the legs; thereby disrupting his locomotion because he had broken both legs and for that I am told he got three years in the pen and never survived very long after he was set free. Charley Shelton as I have stated was the manager of the shoe and dry good store for Reuben Gaines Sr. and and his Brother. I helped very little but stayed with him at night since there was a bed room in the North east corner of the store and it was also better security in keepin people from breaking in while he was away. The bed room walls were only eight feet high with all of the top open, so anything said in the store was easly heard at any place in the store. Charlie and I were very good friends but his salary was not enough to provide the kind of life that he was having so with no one to check even an inventory, he formed his own business "BARTER & EXCHANG He would come into the store at all hours of night; usually two or three times a week with a girl or sometimes two girls and I would always pretend that I was asleep. He would barter merchandise in the way of shoes and clothing for something that could not be credited in the Ledger. I never said anything to my father but I knew there would never be any profit sharing with so much merchandise missing without any dollars and cents to establish a bonafide sale. Charley took inventories several times a year but no one but he would know the financial condition of the remaining stock. He had one clost friend that was about ten years his senior and his name was Tom Peaco and they would go across the street to the livery stable and hire a serry to take girls riding quite often. At one o'clock at night I heard the key turn in the lock and Charley came in with two girls and I reconized one's voice as Rachael but I