On the evening of the 3rd of April I got acquainted with a man by the name of Mike Burns from Buffalo. We had a long talk about the mob; he told me he would start for Buffalo on the morning train and would inform the authorities in regard to the mob. On the 4th of April I helped to brand the horses that the mob left Cheyenne with; there were three carloads of them; they were branded AL on the left shoulder. When we were branding horses I was introduced to Joe Elliott, Van Tassal, Ewing, Clark and others. When we were branding horses there was a good deal of talk about the state of terror the settlers of Johnson County were in on account of the depredations that had been committed upon the settlers by Elliott, Canton, Tom Smith and Fred Coats. There was a good deal of talk about the necessity of killing off all men who were witnesses against Elliott, Canton, Tom Smith and Coats. These were the four men that it was claimed were in the employ of the Wyoming Stock Association for the purpose of killing off the rustlers last fall. It seemed to be the general opinion among the gang at the stockyards that if the mob could kill off about 30 rustlers in Johnson County that it would terrorize the settlers in such a manner that 300 or 400 settlers that owned stock and were in sympathy with the rustlers, would leave the country the best way they could, and the stock association would have no trouble about appropriating their stock, together with the stock of the rustlers the mob intended to kill.