Battles, proprietor of the Silver Nugget saloon, stuck out a pudgy hand and pushed Baxter away. God alone knows how it would have ended had not John L. His expensive patent leather ankle boots, hand sewn by Rigby and Sons of New York, Boston and Denver, were splashed with the green bile that had erupted from Oates’ mouth. To even the most casual observer, the reason for Baxter ’s anger would not have been hard to find. But when the little man continued to snore and slobber in his sleep, the boots went in.Įven after he woke, red-eyed and puking, kicks slammed into Oates’ ribs, none driven harder and by more rage than those of Cornelius Baxter, Alma’s only banker and richest citizen. Let it be noted that at first the four Concerned Citizens present tried to wake the sleeping Oates almost gently. Next morning, at dawn, they came for Eddie Oates, the town drunk. Oates tried to answer, but darkness took him and he knew no more.Īt ten o’clock sharp on a fine spring evening, the Honorable Company of Concerned Citizens, City of Alma, New Mexico Territory, hanged the Hart brothers: Billy, Bobby and young Jimmy. “You all right, pardner?” a man’s voice asked. He felt the coyote being lifted from him and a bearded face with good-humored hazel eyes swam into his view. The female dropped without a sound, her deadweight suddenly heavy on Oates. The dog coyote shrieked and fell away, landing on its back, its legs twitching.Īnother shot. Then the flat statement of a rifle shot racketed through the hollow quiet of the evening. Blood sprayed around him and dripped like rubies from the muzzles of the coyotes. He hit the dog a couple of times, but his punches were weak and ineffective.
He smelled the feral stench of the animals and felt their fangs rip into his back and thighs.ĭesperately, Oates tried to sit up, striking out with his right arm. This time both of them jumped on Oates, and he collapsed under their weight. But, wiser now, the coyotes attacked again.
The dog coyote, hearing his mate’s cry of hurt, was startled and he too bounded back a few steps. The canine yipped in pain and backed off, snarling.
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Oates kicked out at the female coyote and the hard sole of his right foot took her full on the snout.
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