Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains / Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association

by D. J.‏ ‎ Cook

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Lynching of White at Pueblo.

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THE RETRIBUTION OF FATE.

CHAPTER LVI.

THE MURDER OF “CHEAP JOHN” IN DENVER IN 1866—GEN. COOK HEARS THE MAN FALL AND RUSHES TO HIS RESCUE, BUT TOO LATE TO CATCH THE MURDERER—A NIGHT’S SEARCH RESULTS IN SOME STARTLING REVELATIONS—WHAT A PRYING WOMAN HEARD THROUGH A CRACK IN THE WALL—ARREST OF GEORGE CORMAN—HIS TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL—AFTERWARDS BLOWN TO ATOMS IN A TUNNEL NEAR GEORGETOWN.