CHAPTER XIII.
IN HANGMAN’S GULCH.The two prisoners fairly quaked under the angry response of “guilty” to the question of the judge, and Buffalo Bill quickly arose and signified his desire to speak. The judge rapped for silence and said:
“We will hear what the great scout has to say.”
“I would say, gentlemen, as a government officer, it is my wish to have full justice done these men. It is true that I caught them robbing a miner’s cabin, or attempting to do so; but, there are crimes far more heinous than that, and I beg that you will, in their case, give them as light a punishment, as possible, for I am sure they will heed the warning they have had.”
The words of the scout fell upon deaf ears, when he made an appeal for mercy. He might as well have attempted to stem the current of a riv
