The mob left Tisdale’s ranch about 11 o’clock on the night of the 8th of April and stopped several hours in a gulch on the road about four miles from K. C. ranch and waited for the return of Shonsey and party. Shonsey and their party finally returned to the gulch where the balance of the mob were waiting, and reported everything all right at the K. C. ranch; they said the parties there were not expecting anything, and that they were playing the fiddle and having a good time generally. Shortly after the return of Shonsey and party the mob started for the K. C. ranch. Joe Elliott had about 10 pounds of giant powder tied behind his saddle. It was the intention of the mob to blow the house at the K. C. ranch up with the giant powder and to shoot any of the men who showed up in sight at the K. C. house after the explosion. But the mob got to the K. C. ranch too late to use the powder. It was breaking day when we got in sight of the ranch; about the time the mob saw the K. C. house, the leaders of the mob, Major Walcott, Frank Canton and Tom Smith, called to the mob to halt, pointed out the K. C. house and said the parties they proposed to kill were living there and that they did not intend to allow any man that was about the place to get away alive. They said the mob were too late to use the giant powder; that they would have to surround the house and let the parties come out as far as possible and then they would shoot them down. The leaders then ordered six men to go on the south side of the K. C. house and conceal themselves in a gulch in order to shoot any parties that might show up in sight. The six men ordered to take a position in a gulch south of the K. C. house were Mike Shonsey, Jack Jones, Elick Kinzie and three of the Bookers. The balance of the mob went to the river and left their horses in charge of a part of the mob at the river about one-half mile above the house; a part of the balance of the mob went down the river from where they left the horses and hid behind the bank of the river for a distance of about 100 yards above the bridge, and the rest of the mob went to the stable, and some of them were concealed in the stable and to the left of the stable; and some of the mob were behind the end of the stable next to the river. When daylight came John Tisdale and I noticed a wagon in front of the K. C. house; Tisdale said that the party at the house had company.