Unfortunately, the evidence was strong against me; or would have been had the case ever come to a trial.

The strange thing about it was that both warrants were sworn out by the same complainant, and apparently for a similar purpose--'Black Bart' Hawley." "What purpose ?" "To keep us from telling what we knew regarding a certain crime, in which either he, or some of his intimate friends, were deeply interested." "But it would all come out at the trial, wouldn't it ?" "There was to be no trial; Judge Lynch settles the majority of such cases out here at present.

It is extremely simple.

Listen, and I will tell you the story." He reviewed briefly those occurrences leading directly up to his arrest, saying little regarding the horrors of that scene witnessed near the Cimmaron Crossing, but making sufficiently clear his very slight connection with it, and the reason those who were guilty of the crime were so anxious to get him out of the way.

She listened intently, asking few questions, until he ended.