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Judge Roy Bean named the saloon, in Pecos, Texas, The Jersey Lily, which also served as the judge's courthouse, for her, in Langtry, Texas (named after the unrelated engineer George Langtry). [ 174 ] Spurious associations
A shootout follows. Bean, on horseback, chases Gass into a burning building, declaring "For Texas, and Miss Lilly!". Some time later, a train pauses by the town. Out steps Lillie Langtry. She is told the story of Judge Roy Bean and his feelings toward her by Tector, the caretaker of the saloon, now turned into a museum.
The Judge Roy Bean Saloon in Bristol, Rhode Island. [25] A barbecue restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, is named Judge Beans, and features Texas-inspired recipes. [26] A bar and restaurant on West 56th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City is named the Judge Roy Bean Public House. Judge Roy Beans is the name of a ...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), a film set in Langtry and starring Paul Newman, sparked new interest in Texas history. Roy Bean appears as a main character in Le Juge, part of the Lucky Luke series. The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border (2008) is a nonfiction book about a reported UFO crash at Langtry in 1955.
The self-appointed [4] Judge Bean held court in his combination general store and saloon [3] and often assigned Jeff Taggert to investigate crimes. Bean was an admirer of actress Lillie Langtry, and claimed that the town of Langtry was named in her honor, though the Southern Pacific Railroad had given the town the name of one of their ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge temporarily blocked part of a Florida law on Wednesday that imposes criminal penalties for willfully transporting people who lack legal immigration status into ...
Operation Court Broom was a landmark corruption investigation into Miami’s criminal justice system that led to a slew of indictments in the early 1990s. In all, five judges were charged ...
In Langtry, Texas, Judge Bean declared himself the "Law West of the Pecos" and ran his court in the town's tiny U.S. Post Office and bar called the Jersey Lilly Saloon. [47] Judge Roy Bean was as famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as many of the motion picture stars are today.