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A Close Shave for the Barber of Dodge City

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In justice to Mr. Sutton we wish to say that this was one of the cases handed down from the old administration, and that the information was prepared by ex-County Attorney D.M. Sells….At one time much interest was manifested in the case, but the tardy working of the machinery of the law has induced a forgetfulness of this pitiless spilling of innocent blood, and the result of the trial provokes but little expression of opinion. Notwithstanding the technicality that liberated the prisoner, there still remains the naked fact that even time cannot wash away—the cool, calm, deliberate murder. 

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Roger Jay of Baltimore is a frequent contributor to Wild West. Suggested for further reading: Dodge City, by Fredric R. Young; and Early Ford County, by Ida Ellen Rath.

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