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Another unarmed cowboy in the old west
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1505174" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>One of the real telling things about Ben Snipes story is not that he got along with the Indians or avoided the outlaws but that it was lawyers who ended up taking him down. Before the bank panic one of his banks was robbed. Ben spent a bunch of personal money investigating the robbery. They caught the robbers. A lawyer told them that he could get them off but he wanted to get paid up front. The amount of money he wanted was the same amount as they had stole. The wife of one of the robbers got the money out of hiding and gave it to the lawyer. He did get them off. The robbers went free, the lawyer got the money, and Ben was left holding the bag. </p><p>When the bank panic hit some lawyers got him put into receivership. They then picked him clean. Selling off all of his assets for pennies on the dollar. It doesn't say so but I would bet that those assets were sold to friends and relatives. In the end Ben had nothing and the depositors in his banks got 7 cents on the dollar. </p><p>The moral of the story is don't worry about the bad guys. bad cows, wilderness, or weather. It is those guys in three piece suits carrying brief cases into the courthouse who will rob you blind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1505174, member: 498"] One of the real telling things about Ben Snipes story is not that he got along with the Indians or avoided the outlaws but that it was lawyers who ended up taking him down. Before the bank panic one of his banks was robbed. Ben spent a bunch of personal money investigating the robbery. They caught the robbers. A lawyer told them that he could get them off but he wanted to get paid up front. The amount of money he wanted was the same amount as they had stole. The wife of one of the robbers got the money out of hiding and gave it to the lawyer. He did get them off. The robbers went free, the lawyer got the money, and Ben was left holding the bag. When the bank panic hit some lawyers got him put into receivership. They then picked him clean. Selling off all of his assets for pennies on the dollar. It doesn't say so but I would bet that those assets were sold to friends and relatives. In the end Ben had nothing and the depositors in his banks got 7 cents on the dollar. The moral of the story is don't worry about the bad guys. bad cows, wilderness, or weather. It is those guys in three piece suits carrying brief cases into the courthouse who will rob you blind. [/QUOTE]
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