Western True Crime #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA hardened outlaw in an orange shirt meets his end when he attempts one final crime, only to be shot down by a lawman who confronts him about his criminal past. A second story follows a farmer named Gilliland who receives a letter asking him to manage another man's affairs, but when the farmer disappears under mysterious circumstances, a sheriff must investigate whether Gilliland has become a victim of crime or foul play himself. The sheriff ultimately discovers that Gilliland vanished without a trace, and vows to arrest whoever is responsible if the man is found guilty of wrongdoing.
Johnny Devine dreams of boxing glory, but after a brutal defeat, he trades the ring for a life of crime—first as a bank robber, then as a hired enforcer for the notorious Shanghai Kelly, a "crimper" who coerces men into servitude at sea. As Johnny climbs the ranks of Kelly's operation, he discovers a vicious underworld where violence and intimidation are the currency of power. Watch as this cruel, merciless killer carves his path through San Francisco's criminal underworld in this true-crime tale.
John Chisolm built the legendary Chisolm Trail and led some of the West's hardest men in driving massive cattle herds from Arizona and New Mexico to Kansas—until a fateful day when a dry gulcher's bullet cut him down. This story traces how Chisolm's death shattered his closest friend, the young gunman Billy the Kid, and set him on a path that would make him one of the frontier's most notorious outlaws.
A Missouri farmer plants murder, scheming to eliminate a neighbor and seize a fortune—but his clever plan begins to unravel when the body is discovered and suspicion falls on an innocent man. Sheriff Stevens must untangle a web of forged letters, missing documents, and hidden debts to expose the real killer before a lynch mob does justice in the wrong way.
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Reprinted in Western True Crime #17 (1949)
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