Murderers were attended to a trifle more expeditiously.
They were strung up by the neck." "Good God, man,--do you mean to say you hung men in that off-hand fashion ?" cried Captain Trigger, aghast.
"Not without a fair trial, sir.

No innocent man was ever hung.

There was no such thing as circumstantial evidence in that camp.

The guilty man was always taken red-handed.

We had good laws and they were rigidly enforced.