It May Have Been Brave, But It Was A Dreadful Thing
For The Trooper To Do, For He So Easily Could Have Been Murdered In
The Darkness, And Faye And The Soldiers Never Have Known What Had
Become Of Him.
Colonel Bissell declares that the man shall be made a
corporal upon the first vacancy.
The man Oliver was in the jail at Las Animas last summer for stealing
horses. The old jail was very shaky, and while it was being made more
secure, he and another man - a wife murderer - were brought to the
guardhouse at this post. They finally took them back, and Oliver
promptly made his escape, and the sheriff had actually been afraid to
re-arrest him. We have all begged Faye to get out a warrant for the
man, but he says it would simply be a farce, that the sheriff would
pay no attention to it. The whole left side of Faye's face is badly
swollen and very painful, and the wound in his ankle compels him to
use a cane. Just how the man managed to shoot Faye in the ankle no one
seems to understand.
Granada must be a terrible place! The very afternoon Faye was there a
Mexican was murdered in the main street, but not the slightest
attention was paid to the shooting - everything went right on as though
it was an everyday occurrence. The few respectable people are afraid
even to try to keep order.
Dodge City used to be that way and there was a reign of terror in the
town, until finally the twelve organized vigilantes became desperate
and took affairs in their own hands.
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