"That's so!" cried the speaker who had tried to stem the popular excitement. If there are any fathers present I ask, Have you the heart to take away the life of a child just entering upon life and its enjoyments?" He had touched the chord in the hearts of more than one. Pg 144 Spare the life of that innocent boy, who certainly has done no evil. "If you won't believe me," continued Dewey, "I want to make one appeal-to ask one last favor. "What proof is there except the word of two thieves and liars who deserve the fate which you are preparing for us?" "Hang 'em up!" shouted somebody and the cry was taken up by the rest. ![]() "We know you're guilty, and that's enough." "You know it? How do you know it?" retorted Dewey. "That don't go down, stranger," said Jim Brown. "Are you goin' to let him insult us?" asked Mosely in the tone of a wronged man. "You have condemned us," he proceeded, "on the testimony of two as arrant scoundrels as can be found in California " and he pointed scornfully at Bill Mosely and his partner. "Gentlemen," he said in a solemn tone, "I call God to witness that you are about to put to death four innocent men." "Enough of that!" said Jim Brown, roughly, "We don't want to hear any more of your talk." But Dewey did not stop. ![]() It seemed the last chance for an appeal, and, Pg 143 hopeless as it seemed, Richard Dewey resolved to improve it. to the hotel for a rope, being instructed by Jim Brown where to find it.
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