"I've seen him knock her down more than once--and kick her, too." "A slip of the memory, that's all.

He was probably thinkin' of his wife, if he has one." At a public meeting the town board was condemned for its failure to strengthen the jail at the time Anderson made his demand three years before.
"What's the use in me catchin' thieves, and so forth, if the jail won't hold 'em ?" Anderson declared.

"I cain't afford to waste time in runnin' desperite characters down if the town board ain't goin' to obstruct 'em from gittin' away as soon as the sun sits.

What's the use, I'd like to know?
Where's the justice?
I don't want it to git noised aroun' that the on'y way we c'n hold a prisoner is to have him commit suicide as soon as he's arrested.

Fer two cents I'd resign right now." Of course no one would hear to that.