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Show JUST MURDERERS-MOST MURDERERS-MOST OF THEM The statement of George Hansen, Han-sen, a banker of Fairbery, Neb., who has made an exhaustive investigation in-vestigation of the killings of Wild Bill Hicock, and which he brands as cold-bloded murder, is mostly true. There are men still alive who have seen Wild Bill back up when he failed to have the drop on his adversary. One such incident ocured in a Deadwood dance hall a short time before he got the short end of the deal. The same is also true on the famous killers in the early days on the plains. Bat Masterson, one of the last of the "killer heroes," while a member of the Denver fire department, backed down when ' confronted, by a farmer boy, armed with a pitchfork. pitch-fork. "Gun Play" Maxwell, who some eighteen years ago, terrorized ter-rorized eastern Utah along the line of the D. and R. G. railroad, rail-road, was put out by one of the Gillis boys, who wielded a single-tree, on the San Rafel road near Greenriver, Utah. A few months after the Greenriver incident, in-cident, "Gun Play" was "bumped "bump-ed off" by a Carbon county deputy at Price, Utah Kays-ville Kays-ville Reflex. |
