1 48 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



titude of all anthropomorphous sanguineous fluids ; wherefore their inflam- 

 matory or semi-tropical exoticity, with non-irrigability in the citrus belt, 

 might depolarize the red corpuscles and become the protoplasmic injectiver- 

 ator of bloody deeds like this " ; etc., etc. 



That may not be the exact language, but it is the substance and style of 

 it. The circumstantial evidence seemed to be winding up tightly about the 

 prisoner at the bar. Dr. Conger made a strong plea for the defense. Then 

 P. M. Green, in closing his argument for the State, exclaimed in eloquent 

 diction : " As a star falls from heaven and is seen no more, so fell Jesse 

 lyce !" (And after that he was sent to the legislature.) 



The jury reported through their foreman. Dr. Elliott, that they could 

 not hang the culprit on the evidence, but he ought to be htcng anyway^ on 

 general principles, and they gave a verdict accordingly. The prisoner was 

 pronounced "guilty." The sheriff had his noose and black cap ready, and 

 was about to proceed with the hanging. But now Jesse Lee came bounding 

 into court — declared that that wasn't his skull at all ; that his blood cor- 

 puscles were all right ; his citrus belt was perfectly well irrigated ; and there 

 was no bloody deed for all this fuss; etc., etc. So the case was dismissed, 

 and the court adjourned. 



The part of Jesse lyce was played by Perry Kewen, son of Col. E. J. C. 

 Kewen, who then lived in the historic old stone mill, below the foot of 

 Eake Avenue, which he had fixed up at great cost for a dwelling. Mrs. 

 Kewen was also present. This burlesque trial was the most notable and 

 longest remembered of the many entertainments given by the colony's 

 original "literary society," except perhaps the reading of their first paper, 

 The Reservoir No. /, in which occurred the famous "dog poetry." 



COLONEL BANBURY'S DEER. 



The story they tell on the Colonel is this. One day word was brought 

 in that there was a deer browsing in the chapparal up toward the mount- 

 ains. Colonel Banbury made up a party to go in pursuit, and with his 

 trusty rifle in hand and seated in a wagon he took the lead. In due time 

 they reached the place, and sure enough a deer was there ; the Colonel saw 

 it and jumped up and shouted, " There it goes ! " but entirely forgot his gun 

 and didn't shoot at all. So this incident became a standing joke on the 

 " Pasadena Rifle Team." 



THE "rifle team" SAW A BEAR. 



Another of the colony bear stories is thus related. It was learned that 

 bears were nightly stealing honey from the bee ranches up near the mount- 

 ains and a party was gathered to go up there and bring down some bear 

 steak for breakfast. Uncle David Townsend and Charley Watts were of the 

 party, besides others not learned. They re'ached a bee ranch cabin after 

 dark and climbed onto its roof to lie in wait and watch for bruin's arrival. 



