El Paso, TX, United States
Four Men Shot Dead. Here, on April 14, 1881, four men were shot dead in about five seconds. El Paso, then, was the wildest twenty-four hour town in the old west and east of Suez. Johnny Hale, gunman and cattle rustler, was suspected of the murder of two young Mexican ranchers near Canutillo. An inqu
est, ordered by the district attorney, was in progress nearby with Gus Krempkau, ex-Texas Ranger, acting as interpreter. At recess, Hale, enraged by Krempkau's interpretation of Mexican testimony, sho
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