Jones described his partner, whom he supposed had just been killed. The marshal sent Jim Haguewood over to the B. & M. depot, where he nabbed Walker. McCann had just bought two tickets for Grand Island, and he and Walker were about to board the train. Walker was taken up and jailed. “Witt and the two witnesses left Douglas about 1 o’clock Thursday morning. We returned from Glenrock about 1 in the afternoon, and at once set about to discover what had become of them. We had no legal process for holding or detaining them, and we could not have stopped them had they taken the train in broad daylight, but we were afraid they had been killed. We soon learned that Witt had bought and paid cash for two horses the night before, and that he was also missing. We sent a man to interview his partner, Morton, and his answers were so evasive and misleading as to confirm suspicions. We also learned the telegraph wire had been cut near Lost Springs. We then knew well enough that Witt had been paid to run them out of the country, but we had no legal right to stop them. On going to the sheriff’s office a little later we discovered that they had taken two revolvers, so we procured warrants and wired Marshal Morrison to arrest them at Crawford, rightly surmising that they would ride east and then take the train. That night we got a dispatch from Marshal Morrison that he had them. “The next day we took the train for Crawford, where we arrived a few minutes after a special train had taken Morrison and his prisoners to Chadron on a writ of habeas corpus. “County Judge Ballard, after hearing the habeas corpus case, released the prisoners. Deputy United States Marshal Hepfinger had been brought up from Omaha and, armed with a warrant for the arrest of Jones and Walker on the charge of selling liquor to Indians, the moment the word ‘released’ escaped the lips of the judge he pounced upon the men like a beast of prey, handcuffed them together and rushed them off to a special train, standing at the depot, and in a moment they were moving rapidly for Omaha. Attorney Harvey had secured the warrants from United States Commissioner Darrington on complaint of Witt. Sheriff Dahlman also had warrants for the arrest of the trappers, issued on complaint of Deputy Sheriff Kimball, charging the theft of two pistols, the object being to get the witnesses back into Wyoming and hold them to testify in the cattlemen’s cases. Harvey and Witt took the special train for Omaha.” The last chapter in this shameful drama is told in a press dispatch from Omaha, which is here reproduced: “Three bedraggled, unkempt and altogether rough-looking men, two of them handcuffed together, and all of them with terror depicted on every feature, huddled in a bunch at the heels of Deputy United States Marshal Hepfinger about 5:30 o’clock last evening as he entered the private office of Marshal Slaughter in the Federal building.