Thursday Dead Racist Blogging: Apocryphal Edition?

I'd been planning on posting this tomorrow for my Friday Dead Racist Blogging, but I'm not entirely sure that it's true. And you may have heard this one before anyways, in one of the many variants it's adopted over the years. But this was the first account, in the June 2, 1884, edition of the El Paso Daily Times, about Justice of the Peace Roy Bean:

Somebody killed a Chinaman and was brought up standing before the irrepressible Roy, who looked through two or three dilapidated law books from stem to stern, and finally turned the culprit loose remarking that he'd be damned if he could find any law against killing a Chinaman.