Complex sentence: Frank is captured and detained after the town's newspaper editor, Madga, is killed-she'd published articles attacking him -, with the same confrontation resulting in the'death' of the Judge when he tries to protect Frank from the Reaper.
Split into simpler sentences: Frank is captured and detained after the town's newspaper editor, Magda, is killed--she had been publishing articles attacking him. During the confusion of the arrest, the Judge "dies" when he tries to protect Frank from the Reaper.