Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-25

cooler man than hls brother and he wanted to keep out of trouble if he could. So he damned the gun into his waistband and sat in a sort of a guess, The Strangler walked from the bar toward the door,
 You may hear something he said, stopping at the door and looking at Charley Burns significantly.
 Just wait minute. said Charley. getting up from the table and walking over to the Strangler. Let's hear it now ..........
 They got together right then. Ithap- pened pretty suddenly, but the only man struck by shot was the inevitable in- nocent bystander. He was killed as dead as a mackerel. Then the Stranglers seemed to come out of the ground and three minutes later both of the Burns boys were landed in separate cells fin the calaboose. That night the Stran- glers broke into the jail and shot Char ley Burns to death in his cell. They shot Frank up heap, too, but he was still breathing when they pulled him out of his cell and strung him up.
 "Eow, here was dirty bit of work. It got on the nerves of all of us, more or less, who didn't belong to the Stran- glers. There was a-plenty of ugly talk around Flagstaff from that night-plain talk. spoken right out loud. Among the people who didn't hesitate to express themselves audibly were Ed Fay and Doc Radde. both of whom dealt faro in Dave Blacks big place. They were both quiet men. and game. But that Burns job got them on the raw, and neither of them hesitated a minute in saying so. The result was that one afternoon they got joint invitation. conveyed in writing. from the Stran- glers, to leave Flagstaff on the 11:S0 train out that night.
 Are you going. Doc?' Fay asked Radde when they'd read the note.
 No said Radde.
 Neither am l. said Fay.
 They took the Stranglers invitation to Dave Black. their employer. There never were any better nor gamer men in the southwest than Dave Black. He was a man Of absolute integrity. He had a heart as big as a bullock's under his vest. But he was agin the Strangiers from way back. The Stranglers' note to Fay and Radde made him hostile in stantly. He pasted the note against one of the walls of his place. Then he outs with both of his guns, and he de- scribes a pretty exact circle on that piece of paper with bullets. Then be took pencil and wrote across the whole face of the punctured nOe:
 Stranglers. take warning
 Dave Black was on the warpath. He walked out into the air for awhile and studied the situation, and then he re- turned to his place. where his two warned dealers. Fay and Radde. were waiting for him. They had talk. At the conclusion of the talk Black handed each man s5O0 bill.
 Tn case the play doesn't go through he explained. and you boys have to drill you'll need the money.
 Then Dave went around and had a few quiet talks with some Flagstaff men who he knew would be with him in the little undertaking he had in mind. One was his brother. Charley Black. An other was Mysterious Dave. surname unknown. an ex-Wells-Fargo messen- ger. who had never been known to back water Then there was Virgil Earp- I needn't say anything about Virgil. always figured him to be the best of all the Earp boys Doc HolIoday was another. and a good man in a tight pinch. and John Burns. no kin to the Burnses who hsd beer -r-Ssred t- the