European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Justice1 Between Beer Breaks just i Wes photo of judge Roy bean top wit taken outside his Jersey Lilly Faloon i Langtry Texas about 1902, preserved at a halt historical site the Saloon courtroom is popular today with tourists. Symik Cochran associated press e was Tough and crude a Gambler and a con Man o Boozer Anton bigot and an opportunist who played fast and Loose Willi tie Law of Iho land. He was mean and uncouth and possessed the table manners of a barbarian. He probably would have been a Womanizer exec of that he was fat and hairy Seldom bathed and suffered a Schoolboy crus i on a British actress he never met come along Hen of the Rocky rugged Hills above a s Rio Grande River and moot inn most colourful and enduring of Texas log ends judge Roy bean o1 Langtry the Law West of the  his rustic courtroom Saloon stands today As a Monument to America s ast Frontier and to the Man who ruled it with a bizarre Brand of Justice the restored Wood Structure is the focal Point Oline judge Roy bean visitor Center itself a Symbol of one of the most exciting eras m Iho 50 years of Texas Independence. Author . Sonniehsen says his biography on the judge was written without any illusions but with the realization that bean was something More than an amusing old scoundrel " he had in him inc Soufl of an american Folk hero of the sort which Tifis country will never again produce Sonnichsen says. On aug. A 1b82, pfc cos county commissioners gathered at fort Stockton to appoint a Justice o the peace to help restore Law and order Al the Railroad Camps in tha Pecos River area of Southwest Texas they did so Al Iho request of Trie Railroad and a Texas Ranger named Oglesby who described the 3.0qq rail workers and their followers Asho worst lot of roughs gamblers robbers and pickpockets i Ever  the commissioners Choice was Roy bean portrayed As a Man with a " great appetite for publicity and a great Knack for achieving  untold numbers of books and Magazine articles and a movie starring Paul Newman have recounted the escapades of the crusty old judge and the whiskey Flavoured Justice dispensed from he porch of his Saloon the Jersey Lilly. Still a new Book is being written by historian Jack skills 54. Who As a child used the Saloon As a playhouse and who today serves As supervisor of the judge Roy bean visitor Center. We used to build fires inside the old Saloon he says. It s a wonder to did t Burn he place  old timers insist the Udo erected his Law West of the Pecos sign and began holding court even before his judicial appointment was official. Armed with a six shooter and a rarely consulted copy of the 1879 revised statutes of Texas. Bean set about shaping a bit of Texas history in his own irascible image Lyl Nfay had no jail so to deemed Al crimes punishable by lines with most it not All of such Money trickling into his own pockets. The judge was particularly lend of interrupting his Biffl and bluster Justice for Beer Breaks in the Saloon and olten included a round of drinks Lor