Another incident may be mentioned as giving a sort of object lesson. One morning soon after the return of the regulators to Cheyenne, the writer hereof was going down the street to his office, when he observed one of the imprisoned men come to the door in his night shirt, reach out through a partial opening and get the morning paper lying on the door sill. A block farther down he saw another invader taking his morning walk. Two blocks farther a city policeman was met, driving in front of him four tramps, each with a chain fastened to his leg and a 50-pound weight on his shoulder, being marched to work on the streets. The contrast was striking--the cattlemen, crimsoned with the blood of their fellow men, given the freedom of the town, and indulging in riotous living--the tramps, with no crime charged against them but that of asking for bread, placed in the chain-gang and driven like beasts to break stones on the highway. Comments would only weaken the case--the reader must draw his own conclusions. CHAPTER XIV. THE TRIAL OF THE INVADERS On August 7th, 1892, the invaders were arraigned before Judge Scott, in the District Court for Laramie county, at the court house at Cheyenne. They all pleaded not guilty, and the work of securing a jury began. Three days were consumed and some progress made. It was evident that a jury could be found in the county, and hopes began to be entertained that the prisoners would be called upon to face their accusers for the killing of Nathan D. Champion and Nick Ray, and the burning of the Nolan ranch on Powder river, April 9th, 1892. Skeptics and doubters there had been from the time of the arrest of the prisoners. “They will never be tried,” was an expression heard every day, and in all parts of the state. The theory was that the cattlemen exerted such a dominating influence that in some way they would prevent a final hearing and that the accused would go free. The special privileges granted the prisoners throughout the summer months strengthened this idea, but when the day of trial came and both prisoners and witnesses appeared in court, the doubters began to hope that they were mistaken in their judgment.