Panhandle

The trial was held in a big barn of a courthouse, and the prisoners were bound over to the district court.

The rangers were preparing to take them to Panhandle City, where there were safer and more commodious quarters, when the sheriff, who had already distinguished himself by setting free the prominent young outlaw first captured, appeared and demanded the prisoners, on the grounds that, being sheriff of that county, they could not be removed without his consent.

The ranger captain promptly informed him that, sheriff or no sheriff, he had shown his disqualifications for the office and that these prisoners would be taken to more secure quarters than he seemed willing to provide.

The officer departed.