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opinion that this evidence was enough.
The prisoner was discharged.
Disgusted with such law as they found in the Prairie lands, the Bulliners snatched their guns and marked their victims.
Sisney was reserved for the anniversary of George's death, but Henderson, his chief supporter, was taken off at once.
Jack Bulliner, with two companions, lay behind a heap of logs in Henderson's field, and as the farmer turned his plough, they fired into him a whole round of buck-shot.
Henderson lived a week.
Before he died, he made a statement that, according to his true belief, Jack Bulliner was one of his assailants.
In a neighbouring field, a man named Ditmore was at work, and heard the assailing party fire.
Within a week, Ditmore was shot.
Hinchcliffe was the next to fall.
Hinchcliffe, a physician, as well as a postmaster, was often out at night, attending on his patients.
He was riding home one evening in the dark, when spits of fire came out of a copse, near the lane, and struck him dead.
His horse was also killed.
Suspicion points to Cousin Tom and Texas Jack, as the assassins of Hinchcliffe, but Cousin Tom
1875.
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