On the night of the 10th of April one of the mob came to the TA ranch about 10 o’clock in the evening. He said that he was riding in the head teamster’s wagon; and had his horse saddled and tied behind the wagon; said that sheriff’s posse passed the wagons on their road to K. C. ranch; said sheriff’s posse asked the head teamster a few questions and then went on. He reported that after sheriff’s posse left the wagons he got on his horse and came to join us; he said the country was full of rustlers. About 3 o’clock in the morning of the 11th of April I went from the fort down to the house to get some grub for the men at the fort; at the house I saw a man with his leggins and spurs on; I supposed that he was the man that was going to Cheyenne. I asked Fay Parker who he was, and Wolcott spoke and said the man’s name was Johnnie Jones; that he was a distant relation of a great grand-aunt of his, and that I would better take a good look at him so I would know him the next time I saw him. After I had finished my breakfast at the house I took some grub and coffee up to the men at the fort. About daylight a number of horsemen appeared in sight of the fortifications coming from the direction of Buffalo. The firing then commenced and was kept up most of the time until the surrender of the mob to the troops at Fort McKinney. During the fight at the TA ranch the mob seemed to feel perfectly secure from danger; they claimed that they were so strongly fortified that the sheriff’s posse would not change the works, and that it would be impossible for the sheriff’s posse to get their rifle pits close enough to harass the mob before Governor Barber, Senators Carey and Warren would send the troops at McKinney to the rescue of the mob. Then they claimed that if the rustlers and troops did not get into a fight that it would be necessary to surrender to the military authorities and be taken to Fort Russell at Cheyenne, where, the leaders claimed, they would be turned loose in a short time, and they would come back to Johnson County stronger than ever, and would kill every man that packed a gun against them at the TA ranch. The leaders seemed to think the possible failure of the raid was due to the fact that the sheriff and deputies were not killed on the night of the 9th of April.