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Frontier Justice
By Mahlon E. Kriebel
Winchester model 73 .44-40 rifle. The gun "that won the west". The Colt Frontier Six Shooter.
A ruler balanced on a pencil functions as a scale to show that a difference of four percent in the weight of slugs will tip the ruler.
"Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a good nights sleep. We need to get our
work finished here so that we can get home and get to chores. For two days, we have
had one 'hold-out' for a guilty conviction. As Judge Kepler has instructed me to say
before each ballot, only write guilty or not guilty onto the paper. Fold it and hand it to
our bailiff:" Admonished Mr. Jack Castor, the jury foreman for this murder case where
a cowboy had been shot thirty miles east of Fort Benton, Montana.
e bailiff collected the yellow pieces of paper, retired to his chair, opened the folded
ballots and carefully stacked them into two piles. "Eleven guilty and one not guilty:"
sighed the mercantile store owner from Floweree.
