Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-18
Price Four Cents.

ing one of our horses and clipping lock of hair from my temple. The bullet raised @ ridge along the skin, the work of which shows to this day. She finally succumbed to superior strength, but to the last maintained the same dare devil, reckless demeanor.
 Having captured the assassins the question now arose, ''What are we to do with them?' some were for taking them back and letting the law take it's course. The advocates of this line of policy were largely in the ninori- ty. There were those among us whose rela- tves had fallen victims to the deadly ham, mers and knives of the watches, and they would not listen to the suggestions of the conservative element. They threatened to do some killing then and there if the demands for instant vengeance were not regarded No one could have offered very strenuous op- position if they had carried out their threats, but it was thought best to do the job up af- ter the most approved form obtaining in the courts presided over by Judge Lynch.
 The prisoners were accordingly arraigned and asked what they had to say in their de- fence. The old woman was sullen and ugly, but the two men showed signs of faltering. Had they been left to themselves they would have made full confessions beyond doubt. The amiable Kate perceived this, and, think ing it would please the vigilantes too much to hear confessions, she fell to cursing her brother and father for their cowardice. Foul CT language was never uttered than came from the lips of this fend No term was too vile to apply to her relatives They took 1t sullenly at first, but soon something of her reckless spirit infused them and they too joined in the tirade. The.chorus of blasphe- my that went up from that hardened lot caused a shudder to run through our party. With death staring them in the face, they united in cursing us and lanenting their ina biity to do us harm. Such malignity never equalled. Even the old woman chipped in occasionally and her appearance indicated Sha IKhn 1f1Ff f1oaf onstration.
 When charged with the murder laid at their doors the answer was curse, followed by more curses, and then volley, fusilade of curses and ribald abuse. Our court went through with the form prescribed and then pronounced sentence of death. The an- nouncement was received with jeers from the hardened criminals, who had determined to brave it out to the last. It was decided that the murderers should be shot, ns it would take too much time to hang them.
 EXECUTION AND BURIAL.
 The was already nearly down and the shadows of approaching night were deepen ing. There on the borders of the forest the cruel killers were tied to saplings and told to prepare for death One of our number, who had not quite forgotten his early education, undertook to offer prayer, but the lovely Kate spat in his face while he was addressing the throne of grace, and he quit right in the
 
 The four died with curses on their lips, hardened and unrepentant to the last. There in that lonely, dismal spot, away beyond the confines of civilization, they met righteous retribution, and their souls, black with crime were sent to meet the Great Judge. Their executioners treated them better than they treated their innocent victims. They were killed quickly and painlessly, not butchered brutally
 To be sure, not much time was wasted in burial, but it was growing late and the vigi- lantes had long ride before them. A hole, made by the displacement of the roots of a fallen cottonwood, was made little larger and deeper and the bodies thrown in and hastily covered with loose earth, rocks and brushwood. This was all there was to the funeral
 On reaching the level again the effects of the Renders were stacked and burned as sort of offering to heaven. We then proceeded northward, separating before reaching the settlement, each seeking his home quietly. There was no blow made about our achieve ment, each man keeping his own counsel The secret was well kept and it was weeks be- fore outsiders stopped proving around in search of the Renders. Those immediately concerned very speedily lost interest in the chase, however, and, though nothing said on the subject it came to be tacitly derstood through Labette and Montgomery counties that it would be waste of time to prosecute inquiry further