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  Judge Roy Bean
Roy Bean never one to stand on ceremony tried his first case the week before the appointment.
Some legends cite Bean as being a "hanging" judge, but there is no record that he ever sentenced a man to be hanged.
Judge Roy Bean dispensed both drink and justice from behind this bar.
www.texasbob.com /travel/tbt_jrbean.html   (281 words)

  
  Judge Roy Bean's passion for dodgy dealings - theage.com.au
Bean is one of the legendary figures of the American west, and, as with others of his ilk, his true story is swathed in myth, a good deal of it fabricated by its central figure.
Roy Bean, chronic boozer, crafty entrepreneur, romantic and self-designated "law west of the Pecos" was born in Kentucky in 1823, and, at 15, followed his two older brothers, Sam and Joshua, west.
Bean ruled that a dead man found in the Pecos River with a pistol in his pocket was guilty of carrying a concealed weapon, and confiscated the money found on the body.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/17/1037490050546.html   (701 words)

  
 His Honor, Judge Roy Bean
Roy Bean was born in Kentucky in 1823.
Roy's parents must have instilled a strong sense of social responsibility in their boys, as all three eventually ended up in some form of public service.
The fact that Judge Bean made his place of business available, rather than burden the young town with erecting a court-house, speaks well of Roy Bean's generosity and is a trait woefully lacking in most of todays public servants.
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 Roy Bean Summary
Bean was notorious for such acts as freeing an Irishman for the murder of a Chinese worker, stating that the law said nothing against killing Chinese, and his manipulations and payoffs to get his son acquitted of a murder that Bean himself had witnessed.
Roy Bean was born to a senior Phantly Roy Bean (November 21, 1804 - June 13, 1844) and his wife Anna Gore in Mason County, Kentucky about 1825, (some records suggest Roy Bean was born in 1823).
In legend, Judge Roy Bean is a merciless dispenser of justice, often called "The Hangin' Judge." But that title arguably goes to Isaac Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who sentenced 160 (156 men and 4 women) to hang between 1875-1896, leading to the executions of 79 men.
www.bookrags.com /Roy_Bean   (1615 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Roy Bean, a frontier justice of the peace known as the "Law West of the Pecos," was born in Mason County, Kentucky, the son of Francis and Anna Bean.
Roy got into trouble, however, and had to make a quick exit; he turned up a short time later in San Diego at the home of his oldest brother, Joshua, who was mayor of the town and a major general of the state militia.
Bean died in his saloon on March 16, 1903, of lung and heart ailments and was buried in the Del Rio cemetery.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fbe8.html   (792 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean (DesertUSA)
Roy Bean's justice was not complicated by legalities; it was characterized by greed, prejudice, a little common sense and lots of colorful language.
In his book "Judge Roy Bean Country," Jack Skiles says that although Bean threatened to hang hundreds, "there's no evidence to suggest that Judge Roy Bean ever hung anybody." One or two were sentenced and taken to the gallows, but allowed to escape.
Roy never met Miss Lillie, but he often wrote her, and she is purported to have written back, even sending him 2 pistols, which he cherished till his dying day.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/aug/papr/du_roybean.html   (1463 words)

  
 THE HISTORICAL ROY BEAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Roy Bean's justice was characterized by greed, prejudice, a little common sense and lots of colorful language.
Roy never met Miss Lillie, but he often wrote her, telling her in one of his letter that he had named the place in her honor.
She had decided to accept the judge's invitation, visited the saloon, listened as locals told her how Roy Bean had fined a corpse, freed a murderer and lined his pockets by short changing train passengers and was given the judge's revolver.
angam.ang.univie.ac.at /western2000/pres/lawbreakers/historical_roy_bean.htm   (1303 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Roy Bean (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
During the Civil War, Roy Bean aided the Confederate cause by joining a band of lawless irregulars.
In 1882, Bean settled at the Texas camp of Vinegaroon, had it renamed Langtry (for the English actress Lily Langtry), named himself justice of the peace (to which he added the title "the law west of the Pecos"), and set up court in his saloon, the Jersey Lily.
As a judge, Bean rendered arbitrary and unorthodox decisions, usually tempered with wit and common sense.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bean-Roy.html   (264 words)

  
 Frontier Justice - Roy Bean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bean, a native Kentuckian with a checkered past as a trader, bartender and sometime smuggler, began his 20-year-long magisterial reign at the age of 56, shortly after setting up a saloon at a railway construction camp in the west Texas wilds in 1882.
The legend says that "Hanging Judge Roy Bean," held court sessions in his saloon along the Rio Grande River in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas.
Roy worked as a bartender in his brother's saloon, "The Headquarters" and was later appointed by Josh as a lieutenant in the state militia.
www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/law/bean.html   (1428 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean
On August 2, 1882, Roy Bean got himself appointed justice of the peace, on a hunch that it might be doubly profitable to preside over both the barroom and the bar of justice.
The judge who specialized in finable cases and kept most of the fines was not uncommon in the West, but Roy Bean was the most famous example of the type.
There was plenty of precedent for Roy Bean in the usual Western "Law" or sheriff, who was "judge, jury, and executioner" all in one, and in frontier vigilantism.
www.geocities.com /alfgon.geo/roybean.htm   (3425 words)

  
 TexianCowboy.com - The Law West of the Pecos
Roy kept the post of Justice of the Peace until his voluntarily retirement in 1902, with interruptions in 1886 and 1896 when he was voted out.
Roy rebuilt it and constructed a separate home for himself across the street, which he called the "Opery House", owing to his anticipation of the day when Lilly Langrty would perform there.
Roy continued to write and she is purported to have written back, even sending him two pistols, which he cherished till his dying day.
www.texiancowboy.com /articles/roybean.htm   (2338 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean and related Trade Tokens
Roy’s oldest brother Joshua Bean was the last alcalde (an alcalde was the mayor of a Spanish town and also a judge) of the pueblo of San Diego, and after the city was incorporated, was the first mayor in 1851.
Roy’s pistol duel with a man named John Collins was heralded as a social event with a large crowd in attendance.
Roy Bean’s pet bear was chained to his iron bedpost, and displayed near his saloon, as a tourist attraction, and gimmick to sell beer.
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 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Paul Newman as Judge Roy Bean (1827-1903) plays the role of the self-appointed judge with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.
As a young man, Roy Bean was involved in freighting along the old Santa Fe trail (from Independce, MO, to Fort Atkinson, to Bent's Fort, CO, to Santa Fe, New Mexico).
Bean was hanged after one of his several duels, but was saved by the rope stretching to the point that he could touch his feet to the ground.
www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/roybean2.html   (393 words)

  
 Roy Bean
Roy Bean was born in Mason County, Kentucky in about 1810.
In 1882 Bean was appointed as the town's justice of the peace.
Bean moved on to Langtry where he became the owner of the Jersey Lilly Saloon.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWbeanR.htm   (556 words)

  
 Roy Bean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His paternal grandparents were Benjamin Bean and his wife Fernetta Johnston, daughter of Archibald Johnston.
Roy had read about her and had become enchanted with her.
The Saga of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Bean   (1325 words)

  
 Robin Garr's Louisville Restaurant Guide / Judge Roy Bean's
Judge Roy Bean's closed suddenly in January 2004, ending a decade-long run for the popular Southwestern-style eatery in the Bardstiwn Road venue that had formerly housed Fat Cats tavern and later Baja Bay.
Bean's doesn't go in for white tablecloths or, thankfully, the cowboy shtick, at least not beyond an occasional mounted game head on the wall.
It was topped with crispy fried-onion bits (which Bean's calls "tobacco onions") on a standard-issue toasted white bun with a mild chipotle mayonnaise.
www.louisvillehotbytes.com /roybean.shtml   (953 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: DVD: Ned Beatty,Fred Brookfield,Jim Burk,Gary Combs,Bennie E. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Roy Bean's life for a span of 30-odd years is recorded with all the excitement of the era.
In fact, JUDGE ROY BEAN is more or less a series of disconnected incidents, from Bean's massacre of a bar full of desperados who rolled him for his (stolen) cash and left him for dead to his circa 1920 explosive showdown with an unscrupulous eastern lawyer played by Roddy McDowell.
Bean rides into Vinegarroon, Texas in 1890, and is prompt1y beaten, robbed and hanged by degenerate outlaws and whores...
www.amazon.com /Life-Times-Judge-Roy-Bean/dp/B00008WJBI   (2083 words)

  
 The Texas Cowboy Gazette, Judge Roy Bean; your trail out of the past into the future...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It could be said, the "Jersey Lilly" was the seat of justice for the "Law West of the Pecos" in the late 1800's.
hantly "Roy" Bean was born in Mason County, Kentucky, the son of Francis and Anna Bean about 1825.
Roy's usual appearance was bedraggled, with a disheveled beard and a sweat-soaked bandana.
users.rionet.cc /ramrod/Roy_Bean.htm   (2313 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean
Although many colorful characters have become legends of the Old West, "Hanging Judge Roy Bean," who held court sessions in his saloon along the Rio Grande River in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas, remains one of the more fascinating (Judge Roy Bean is pictured above).
Some records suggest Roy Bean was born in 1823.
Bean served them quickly, then lingered before giving them their change.
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 Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos
Not much is known about Roy Bean's childhood and not even his actual birth date is known.
Joshua made Roy a lieutenant in the state militia and bartender of his saloon Headquarters to try to calm Roy down.
On August 2, 1882, Pecos County Commissioners appointed Bean as Justice of the Peace for Pecos County, Texas.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/23580   (410 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean Stories - Law West of the Pecos by Bill Goldwire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Judge Roy Bean’s dream of meeting the beautiful and talented Lily Langtry comes true in these fictitious stories of the famous western judge.
Many hardships in the past had presented Judge Roy with seemingly insurmountable threats, but the crafty old wild west character always managed to survive although sometimes barely escaping disaster and death.
Judge Roy was the sturdy, rough and determined old critter who provided the much needed Law West of the Pecos.
www.oldmp.com /judgeroybean.htm   (344 words)

  
 just a few of my days...: dogs and cats and mostly Roy Bean
We both nodded and looked back at Roy who was really happy to be the center of attention.
Roy has also gained a bit of weight.
He's at 72lbs now, so 12lbs or so more than he should weigh, but still less than the 90lbs he was when I brought him home from the shelter.
www.storieproductions.com /2006/11/dogs-and-cats-and-mostly-roy-bean.html   (263 words)

  
 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Goofs: Continuity: When Judge Roy Bean goes out to the front of the courthouse to apologize to the women for calling them "whores", he takes his hat off and holds it against his chest.
The storyline: Bean (Newman) almost gets killed visiting this one-horse town out in the middle of lawless El Paso, then gets his revenge on the people who roughed him up, and takes over the town which is really nothing but this one building!
There are subplots involving (1) Bean's obsession with the famous Lily Langtree, and (2) what happens when the town grows immensely and things change drastically, such as the people wanting a little bit more of a democracy that what Judge Roy Bean had been offering.
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 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Film Review - Time Out Film
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Hawkish mythmaker extraordinary, Milius saw Judge Bean - outlaw turned self-appointed law-giver - as an embodiment of the ambivalent virtues of the old West: evil but necessary, a robber baron achieving tragic grandeur as 'a man who comes in and builds something and then is discarded by what he built'.
As such, he should have had the same outsize dimensions as the Teddy Roosevelt of The Wind and the Lion, but emerges somewhat diminished in Newman's portrayal of a winsome charmer straight out of Butch Cassidy (complete with lyrical interludes and a stickily dreadful song).
www.timeout.com /film/80405.html   (224 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the untamed frontier, the law of the Pecos was enforced by one man alone - the irascible Texan, Roy Bean.
Infamous in American folklore as "the hanging judge," Bean ran his courtroom from his own saloon in West Texas from about 1882 to 1902.
Judge Bean knows the boy is on the wrong side of the law, and tries to set him straight.
www.pimall.com /nais/pitv/roybeam.html   (317 words)

  
 Judge Roy Bean TV Show - Judge Roy Bean Television Show - TV.com
Set in the Texas town of Langtry just this side of the Pecos, there was only one law and his name was Judge Roy Bean.
This color series held an audience in rapture in 1955-56 with Edgar Buchanan as Judge Roy Bean and Jackie Loughery as his niece Letty Bean.
Tell the world what you think of Judge Roy Bean, write a review for this show.
www.tv.com /judge-roy-bean/show/4637/summary.html   (168 words)

  
 Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - Moviefone
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