them to get out of the way after they had fired on the soldiers, and the fight had began between the soldiers and the rustlers. The leaders said that if the friends of the mob could bring on a fight between the soldiers and the sheriff’s posse in the night that the mob would have their horses saddled for the occasion, and that as soon as the fight began between the soldiers and sheriff’s posse that the mob would mount their horses and make their escape towards Cheyenne, where they would be joined by reinforcements, and would come back and kill every man that had packed a gun against them at the TA ranch. The man that came from Buffalo with Du Friend said he would go back to Buffalo and see what arrangements he could make to bring on a fight between the troops and the sheriff’s posse. He left in the afternoon for Buffalo. I asked Du Friend when he first heard the mob was coming to Johnson County. He said the first he knew for a certainty that they would raid the county was last January when he was in Cheyenne. I asked him if he had come from Buffalo to join and stay with them; he said he had. Du Friend said that if the rustlers got a hold of me all they would do would be to shoot me, but he said that if he fell in the rustlers’ hands they would burn him. On the afternoon of the 10th of April, the mob built their fortifications in order to stand off the sheriff’s posse until Governor Barber, Senators Carey and Warren could send the troops at McKinney to the rescue of the mob. The leaders claimed that if they attempted to retreat when their horses were so near played out that they would be surrounded by the sheriff’s posse and would have to surrender to the civil authorities--something the mob said they did not propose to do under any circumstances.