The National tribune., 1910-12-08
"RespcctabIe" Citizens Trapped.

VI.
"RespcctabIe" Citizens Trapped.
The bait caught them, and as there
wss no one else near they soon begar
talking more eXcitedly and loud enough
for me to hear them distinctly; but as
they seemed to have about finished
their consultation l only heard few
concluding words. These, however
were such as to excite intense Interest
in my mind. Stanley was saying, with
many oaths and animated gestures, as
they rose to their feet to move away:
We'll go out and get Callahan and
O few others that can be depended on
and I'll get on my horse and hurry
across the river and gather up few
more there that l know / can rely on
while you and Callahan and Powell
delay the execution some way till | get
back, and then we'll get around MizeT
and take him away from them and
defy them"
With mis- they hurried out of the
house AS soon as they were gone 1
went to Willard, the President of the
committee, and told him what L had
heard. He said:
well, we must hurry up and mead
them off. arrest and hold them awhile
to keep them out of mischief. Where
do you think We'll be most likely to
find them?'
At Cailaham S, lepileu.
Come on" said he. making for the
door. and as we passed out, seeing Hig-
ginbotham near, he called to him:
"Hig., come with u.s..
The three of us struck out for Calla-
hams house, which was near the pub
lie square, and on nearing ii ] noticed
some dark objects standing a little way
off in a fence corner, and whispered to
the other men:
..IIara tbav ora haIieynn
Turning and walking brislily up to
them. with our pistols drawn, we easily
recognized them as the men we were
after, and Willard called out:
Throw up your ha1dsi'
Which they did, not without an in
dignant protest from Stanley, however,
who demanded to know as we disarmed
them:
by what authority do you arrest
and disarm respectable citiZens?"
Willard answered him. showing his
revolver: This is authority enough
for the present. i understand you fel-
lows are plotting mischief, so ] thought
I'd better put you where you car do
no harm for awhile"
We marched them back to the court
room, and placed them under guard
among some other prisoners, cautioning
them that if they did not conduct
themselves discreetly they might find
themselves looking up a limb" like
their deceased friends, the late MiZer
boys This was only said as bluff,
for We had no intention to do them
further harm than to keep them from
attempting to rescue George Mizer; but
they took il in earnest, and seemed to
be very uneasy and also very humble
and docile, denying ali intention of op-
posing the committee or trying to res
cue Nicer.
Safely Under Guard.
After seeing Mann, Stanley and Cal
laham safely under guard, as it was
then after midnight, ! went home and
to bed
1t had got To be the fashion with
many people of the town of mornings
on getting up 10 take a look at the
old elm to see whether it had borne
any more of its gruesome fruit" during
the night, and on the next morning
after the aforementioned occurrences,
as we looked in that direction a mans
body was seen swinging in the wintry
wind under the gallows limb of the old
tree which on closer inspection proved
TO be what was left of George Mizer.
The bodies of his brothers had been
taken down the day previous, and, /
think, were turned over to some of
their relatives, who came with a team
and took them away; but it is my i'm
preston that the body OF Geo. Mizer
was not called for, and was buried by
the committee a little way from the
old elm.
AS we had no further designs on the
three men, Mann, Stanley and Gala
ham, that we had arrested the previous
night. they were accordingly released
in the morning, with an admonition to
look q little out for we would have
a watchful eye on them in future.
Shortly after breakfast that morning
Stanley happened to meet Willard on
the street, and after a short exchange
of compliments they went to punching
each other-a style of fighting rather
uncommon in our community. Willard
had his revolver belted on him. but as
Stanleys gun had not been returned to
him since he was released the yigilant
man disdained to take any advantage
Of Stanley. so they went at II with their
fists, Willard carsiessly Eeg!ecizng to
lay off his pistol. They were MT ham
pered by priZe-ring rules. but took it
rough-and-tumble.
Ali the idlers on the street quickly
gathered around the two cOmbaLants,
and / noticed during their frs. clinch
that Stanley was trying to reach Will
lard's gun. To keep him from taking
a cowardly advantas" Of an honorable
foe who had Just refused to take the
same advantage of him, ! stepped up
behind Willard and jerked his pistol
out of the scabbard, and stood by with
It in my hand.
Stanley was a large, iong-armed. rHw-
boned, muscular man, while willard
was much smaller, but compact and
pony built At arms length tn" big
fellow had all the advantage and
tbumped Willard severely, but the
smaller man had trick &C striking and
kicking at the same time thai doubled
Stanley up like Il jacK-knife. At one
of these kicking exploits. one Ninches-
ter, henchman of Stanley's, thinking
his boss was about knocked out, rushed
up as tho TO help Stanley, hut after
akin1 q serious look intn the lnuzzln of