Talk:Roy Bean
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The quotes section was my first major edit to a page here, so if anyone has any comments/tips on it, I would appreciate them. I'm still a bit new to this :) Idekii 06:31, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Plagiarism issue: either http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/papr/du_roybean.html is plagiarizing this Wikipedia article, or vice versa.
The url quoted has the following passage:
"throughout the 1870s, he supported 5 children by peddling stolen firewood and selling watered-down milk. His notorious business practices eventually earned his San Antonio neighborhood the nickname Beanville"
which is substantially similar to a passage here.
The following passage also appears in both:
"One of Bean's most outrageous rulings occurred when an Irishman was accused of killing a Chinese American worker. Friends of the accused threatened to destroy the Jersey Lilly if he was found guilty. Court in session, Bean browsed through his law book, turning page after page, searching for a legal precedent. Finally, rapping his pistol on the bar, he proclaimed, "Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.""
