CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
HOW THE GUNS GOT IN
Heavy chains and handcuffs were put
on Morley. He told the posse that Blunt was the first man to lose
his life, and that Shorty Gray was the second man killed. Their death
left Dowd and Morley alive in the wagon, with the team without a
driver, racing down the road. Morley kept on firing at the posse,
but Dowd, realizing that the fight was a hopeless one, placed his
gun at his right temple and killed himself. It was when Morley looked
around and saw that Dowd was dead that he jumped out of the wagon,
and with both hands high in the air, surrendered. He was uninjured,
having come through the fusilade (sic) without being struck even
once. With him handcuffed, and the bodies of Shorty Gray and Dowd,
the posse drove to Gretna and waited for a special train that had
been ordered from Lincoln. Before the train pulled out Sheriff Hyers
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told the crowd that he would show them the captured
man and also the dead bodies. Morley closely guarded was taken
to the rear platform, where he stood for a while looking at the
crowd. The Sheriff asked him to say something. Morley said: "I
am sorry that Roy Blunt was killed." Then the bodies of
Gray and Dowd, ghastly, bleeding and awful to look upon, were
held limply up to the morbid gaze of the crowd. Sheriff Hyers
told the crowd that it was he who killed Gray, and received the
cheers of the crowd with a pleased smile.
News of the capture spread quickly, and large crowds gathered
at Ashland and Waverly, where the bodies were again exhibited.
Two stops were made at Havelock, one at the station and one at
the shops, and the crowd looked upon the bodies. It became known
that a very large crowd was at the Lincoln depot, and it was
ordered to run the train through without stopping to the penitentiary.
There it stopped at the cross
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