“‘There are two witnesses at Casper in danger of white caps. Have them brought to Douglas and keep safe, and present bill to county. Will write you particulars. “‘W. G. ANGUS.’ “By some means F. H. Harvey knew the contents of that dispatch before we did, and when we took the train for Casper, two hours later, he went along. We went to Casper and saw Sheriff Rice. We went to the witnesses and showed them the dispatch. We told them frankly that they were not prisoners; that we had neither subpoena nor warrant for them, and that they did not have to come to Douglas unless they wanted to. They seemed anxious to come. In consultation with Sheriff Rice it was agreed that they should come here, be given arms to defend themselves, and be allowed to sleep in the sheriff’s office in the front part of the jail until such time as Sheriff Angus should come or send for them. “The next morning we purchased tickets for them and took them to Douglas in the express car on the regular train. Harvey was also in the passenger coach. At Glenrock, Senator Carey’s pet ‘stock inspector,’ Higley, took the train and walked into the express car. We cautioned the men to look out for him. He went out, but soon came back and attempted to speak to Jones. Messenger Bennett told him to get out of the car and stay out, and he went. We then became satisfied that Harvey had been employed by the stockmen to either have the witnesses killed or run out of the country, and told them so. Arriving here we gave them rooms in the sheriff’s office and each a six-shooter to defend himself. We cautioned them to be careful who they talked to, and under no circumstances to go upon the streets after dark. But Harvey or some of his gang managed to interview Walker during the daytime and got him in a notion of leaving. He told the old man Jones about it, but the latter objected. He wanted to go to Johnson county to testify against the murderers. One night we had to go to Inez and Glenrock on official business. We left a man asleep in the office with Walker and Jones, not to guard them, but to protect them in case they were attacked. That evening O. P. Witt got Walker, the young man, to take a drink of whiskey. That settled it. Walker soon got pretty full, and when night came he refused to go to bed. As he could not be persuaded, Jones said he would walk him back and forth in front of the office and sober him up.