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Show 110 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. "The Chairman, or Judge, then announced the question as being whether the prisoner should be hung or sent to Denver in irons. " The question was put and the Judge declared he was unable to decide. " He then ordered a division of the house. All in favor of hanging were requested to move to one side of the house, and those in favor of sending the prisoner to Denver, to the other. "The house divided, and after a count the Judge acceded the vote to be in favor of sending the prisoner to Denver. "But the end was not yet; a party of men had brought a rope into the house and seemed anxious to use it. "Tabor was hurried back to jail before the crowd could get out. Doctor Worral remained in the theatre until nearly the last one. As he started down the steps several excited people begged him to go back, saying they were waiting on the corner to hang him. But the doctor refused to go back, and, asking where the men were, walked straight toward them. The rope was in their hands, and as the doctor approached one man cried, ' Here he is!' at which a powerfully built man, fully six feet high, rose on the sidewalk, and raising his hand exclaimed, 'If you touch one hair of his head your d d town shall be in flames before night.' This settled the business. The crowd disappeared and the doctor walked quietly to his home. " Tabor was taken to Denver next morning. General Connor kept him for several days packing sand in his camp, and then ordered him out of town. He was never heard of afterward by friend or enemy." |