He and the farmer and the former's sons beat off the marauders and did a satisfactory amount of damage in return.

Two of the "White-Caps" they captured and bound, and others they recognized.

Then the State authorities hearkened to the voice of the "Herald" and its owner; there were arrests, and in the course of time there was a trial.

Every prisoner proved an alibi, could have proved a dozen; but the editor of the "Herald," after virtually conducting the prosecution, went upon the stand and swore to man after man.

Eight men went to the penitentiary on his evidence, five of them for twenty years.
The Plattville Brass Band serenaded the editor of the "Herald" again.
There were no more raids, and the Six-Cross-Roads men who were left kept to their hovels, appalled and shaken, but, as time went by and left them unmolested, they recovered a measure of their hardiness and began to think on what they should do to the man who had brought misfortune and terror upon them.