“Attorneys Donzleman and Ransom were busy until 8:30 o’clock filling obscure corners in the rotunda of the Millard, and when a reporter approached the former shortly after that time the bewhiskered lawyer insisted that the whole trouble up in the cattle country had been exaggerated. “But he could not stop to talk. He was going out of the city and would be back in a couple of days, when he would write a book and do several other things. Right now, however, he must catch his train, so good-bye. “He dodged around a little and finally entered a closed carriage waiting at the door. It was not a street hack, but a carriage ordered from the stable for the occasion, and away Mr. Donzleman went. “A few minutes afterward the same carriage dashed around a corner some blocks away and there were four inside and another on the seat with the driver. Inside were Mr. Donzleman and the erstwhile prisoners, Jones, Walker and Witt, and the passenger on the box was the busy Mr. Hepfinger. “They drove straight to the United States Marshal’s office, which the deputy entered, and after a short wait he resumed his place and then began the long, rapid drive to West Side Station, where the Missouri Pacific night express was boarded and the fugitives were whirled away to the southward.” It would, perhaps, be unjust to accuse Judge Dundy of knowingly aiding a conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice in kidnaping witnesses from a distant state, but the honest reader cannot escape the conviction that the United States marshal’s office was in criminal collusion with the conspirators. The cattlemen’s attorney, Donzleman, was in Omaha, in consultation with the marshal. A deputy had been sent to Chadron to serve false papers; that is, warrants issued on a false charge; the attorney and the marshal, having telegraphic information that the witnesses had been arrested and were on a special train, hung about the office awaiting their arrival; the marshal or the attorney, or both, asked Judge Dundy to remain in the office after court hours to hear an important case, and when the prisoners arrived all things were in readiness to at once proceed to business, hear the case and turn the accused loose. Did they have their liberty? Attorney Donzleman and Deputy Marshal Hepfinger took them in charge and the deputy stayed with them until they were placed on the train and sent out of the country. The stop at the marshal’s office while on the way to the train further implicates that officer, and the public will always hold him as a party to the damnable job. CHAPTER XI. MARTIAL LAW THREATENED--PETITION OF THE INVADERS TO ACTING GOVERNOR BARBER--PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES A THREATENING MESSAGE TO WYOMING CITIZENS--COLORED TROOPS QUARTERED IN THE NORTH