. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . ommand. The peace-makers besought her earnestly, with even- asurance of the justice of the out-come, to ask the men to disperse, but she called attention to the fiendishnessof the crime and to her fatherless children as an excuse for refusing to say aword in the culprits behalf. Failing in this aim, the peacemakers turnedtheir endeavors toward preventing her from giving encouragement to themob, and succeeded. With reference to the committee, consisting of Hamer, Stockham and AND SHORT SKETCHFS OF


. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . ommand. The peace-makers besought her earnestly, with even- asurance of the justice of the out-come, to ask the men to disperse, but she called attention to the fiendishnessof the crime and to her fatherless children as an excuse for refusing to say aword in the culprits behalf. Failing in this aim, the peacemakers turnedtheir endeavors toward preventing her from giving encouragement to themob, and succeeded. With reference to the committee, consisting of Hamer, Stockham and AND SHORT SKETCHFS OF EARLY DAYS IN NBRRASKA. 261 Whitehead, who waited upon the governor to obtain asurance that no furtherobstacle would be olfered to the execution of the sentence, they were informedthat as far as any action of his might be concerned, their trip was utterly use-less. He intimated that he proposed to offer no further delay than that pro-vided for in his order of respite, and should not have offered that had he beeninformed in time of the result of the investigation of Hauustines


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