The Newark journal., 1905-05-19

struck by a shot was the inevitable in- nocent bystander. He was killed as dead IS mackerel Then the Stranglers seemed to come out of the ground and .hree minutes later both of the Burns boys were landed in separate cells in the calaboose. That night the Stran- slers broke into the jail and shot Char ley Burns to death in his cell. They shot Frank up a heap, too. but he was still breathing when they pulled him put of his cell and strung him up.
 Now, here was dirty bit of work. It got on the nerves ol all of us, more or less, who diont belong to the Stran- glers. There was aplenty of ugly talk around Flagstaff from that Hight-plaln talk, spoken right our loud. Among the people who didn't hesitate to express themselves audiBly were Ed Fay and Doc Radde. both of whom dealt taro in Dave Blacks big place. They were both quiet men. and game But thai Burns job got them Ga the raw. and neither of them hesitated a minute iE saying so. The result was that one afternoon they got joint invitation conveyed in writing, from the StraE- glers. to leave Flagstaff on the ll:a9 train out that night.
 Are you going, Doc?' Fay e ca Radde when they'd read the note
 No said Radde.
 Neither am 1, said Fay.
 They took the Stranelers invitation to Dave Black. their employer. There never were any better nor gamer men in the southwest than Dave Black. He was man of absolute integrity. He had heart as big as a bulloeks under his vest But he was agin the Stranglers from way back The Stranglers' note to Fay and Radde mace him hostile in stantly He pasted the note against one of the walls Of his place. Then he outs with both Of his suns. and he de seribes pretty exact circle on that piece of paper with bullets. Then he took pencil and wrote across the whole face of the punetureG nCte:
 Stranglers take warning.
 Dave Black was on the warpath. He walked out into the air for awhile ano 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 a talk. At he conclusion Of the tall, Black handed each man a $5oo bill.
 t' Tn case the play teothrough.s he explained, and you boys have to drill you'll need the money.
 Then Dave weat around and had 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 -Wells-Fargo messen- ger. who had never been known to back water Then there was Virgil Earp- 1 needn't say anything about Virgil. l always figured him to be the best of Ill the Earp boys. Doc Holloday was another and a good man in tight pinch. and John Burns, no kin to the Burnses who had been murdered by the Stranglers, took on. The famous Shot gun Collins joined the bunch There were II of them. There wasn't des- perado or Iawbrea. CT in the lot. But they were tired of Strlugiers.
 "The two warneG-out men. Fay and i RaQQe. GTODDEG al II C ct0Gt lhdl uI7u1 into Wan Jim's Chinese restaurant. They sat on rough stools before rough tables. side bg siCe and facing the front They 6idn't appear to be both cred about tAe rear approach of their Warned-out hour. 11:30. They heard the train come in. and they heard the train go out Then they beean to wait for something t9 hap IT. t vas pitchy dar.e outsi5e but g,ca. three or four minutes after the trai1 pulled out the two dealers saw by tae lieht issuing rem the Cn.as windows number of men approa aHa the restaurant they knew the came was oa They waited Tor the first of the 6ozan or so Stran- eiers to get into the fr14@e Of the Coor, Nhen they kicked their stools from be- 14-a5 ta m aDG WeIe iIiaa Lat on their achs on the faOr They were no s CT down than from Inc rear of that C. s eating house there came 4ea the like ef which HI betBo Stran- gle vigilante in Arizona or anywhere else "a ever gone up against before The oley was made by sawed-off shot euf oadod with slUss and Dave Black
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