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Lopez at once fired again upon the bandits, killed three of them. Upon examination these proved to be General Bonifacio Hinojosa, onetime Mayor of Huitzilac, Miguel Garcia, jail warden of Huitzilac, and one Juan Ortiz...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...
...last felon shambled from view, the warden sat down heavily, reflected he was growing old, gazed vague-eyed at a message handed to him by his deputy. In dirty pencil it read that they had barricaded themselves in the mine, that they held the 13 unarmed guards as hostages, that they would live on mule meat, that they would surrender only on the following conditions...
Wrathful, gimlet-eyed, the warden rose in his might, furiously waved a prison menu,* sent down word they need expect no leniency, added that they would "find the mules pretty tough eating; and, anyhow, it is cheaper to buy more mules than to feed the mutineers...
...Strong men are rare. Once in ten years, or twenty perhaps, one rises up, tempered and knowing, warden of an imperious secret. He lasts a little longer or goes a little harder than another before his strength, too, crumbles, and Death takes him. Last week it took Christy Mathewson...