The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 72
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the two gunmen and an attempt made to arrest them before they
had time to reach for their own guns.
"That afternoon my pistol was out of order," Carnes con-
tinued after telling me of the plot. "I was on my way to a gun-
smith to have it fixed when I saw Charlie Webb going into the
Jack Wright saloon. Another man was with me. When we saw
Webb we stopped. We were about where the Scurry store is now,"
Carnes explained, naming a store a few doors west of the original
site of the saloon. "Hardin was at the saloon. There had been
trouble between him and Webb. When we saw Webb goin' there
we smelt trouble."
At the sound of the shots between Hardin and Webb, men
began hurrying across the square in the direction of the Jack
Wright saloon. When they saw who was doing the shooting, they
fell back.
Holding his useless six-shooter in one hand, Sheriff Carnes
went to Hardin and told him to hand over his pistol. Hardin
handed it to him. Deputies had relieved Taylor and Bud Dixon
of their weapons and were disarming other members of the
Hardin gang as they came out of the saloon. Finally all the men
had come out, except one, a man so drunk that he could not
have found his own nose with a square and compass.
Carnes had been holding his own pistol in one hand, Hardin's
in the other. When the last man staggered out of the saloon.
Carnes dropped his gun to search him. Knowing that his pistol
was empty, Hardin took advantage of the action by whipping
two pistols from under him arms and retreating into the saloon
with Jim Taylor, Bud Dixon, and others of his followers.
Evidently the members of the gang had not been searched
when told to hand over their weapons. Bud Dixon and Alec
Barrickman produced guns after they were inside the saloon.
Word that Webb had been killed by Hardin had been shouted
around the square, then a scene of wild excitement. Men were
yelling for Hardin to be lynched; other men were pleading that
the law be allowed to take its course. Sheriff Games, armed with
a double-barreled shotgun, stationed himself in front of the saloon
where he attempted to bar the way of the infuriated mob trying
to break into the building. Inside the saloon, John Wesley Hardin
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