a rope was around james averell's neck. ella watson was trying to keep mcclain from getting the other rope around her neck too. he fired his revolver until he ran out of bullets. they fired back with rifles. buchanan fled and road as far as he could to the ranch of a man named haley who wrote the next morning with the news. man or woman he reported had been hanged in here this weekwater river. buchanan had not reported it but his report proved correct when a coroner's jury found them monday morning still hanging and cut them down. all six clinchers were named in the first of two corner's inquests. five were charged with the crime and made bail by signing security bonds for each other. they had died and three of his left the territory. the case was dropped through lack of evidence. double lynching randy all capital headline in the cheyenne daily sun the tuesday after the crime. james averell the newspaper reported kept a hard ranch, watson had added a prostitute lived with him and recently figured in the dispatch of the cava