After another gun battle, the two escaped outlaws surrender. A lawman from Sioux Rapids prevents the outlaws from being lynched.
The two remaining outlaws were returned to Albert City. For a while there was some serious talk of lynching the two. But then a lawman from Sioux Rapids arrived and, in his own way, discouraged the idea of illegal justice.
The day after the gun battle at the Albert City depot a makeshift and short-changed funeral was held for the dead outlaw. A crude box, made from scrap lumber, had been hurriedly nailed together. For some reason unexplained, a round hole had been dug in the public cemetery and the outlaw, after being place within the crude box, was tossed into the hole.
It was then that a town member named Geyer picked up a handful of dirt and threw it down onto the box and offered the before mentioned mock words of bereavement, commending the outlaw to the devil if God wouldn't have him.
Recommended Reading:
Joaquin Murrietta, born about 1830, was a California bandit during the Gold Rush years.
Texas gunman and killer John Wesley Hardin could shoot a man to death using either hand, or both, to fire his deadly weapons.
Bill Longley was a gun-fighting killer. Some of the earliest targets this Texas outlaw aimed at, with deadly accuracy, were Blacks.
Here's a rundown with links to many of the outlaws that are riding the range at Suite 101.
Source:
Patterson, Richard. Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West.Johnson Publishing Co, Boulder, Colorado, 1985.
