<Dl> <Dd> "This is the first time in the annals of history where unarmed prisoners, shackled together, ever repelled a mob . Such cool courage that preferred to fight against such great odds and die in glorious battle ." Judge Andrew Phelps McCormick, 1891 . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> "This is the first time in the annals of history where unarmed prisoners, shackled together, ever repelled a mob . Such cool courage that preferred to fight against such great odds and die in glorious battle ." Judge Andrew Phelps McCormick, 1891 . </Dd> <P> Boone had gone to stay with his girlfriend and her family, the Harbolts, in the vicinity of Marlow, but the girlfriend's brother, William "G.E." Harbolt, put some poison in the food that his sister took to Boone . William Harbolt had obtained the poison from a Dr. Carter . Harbolt, along with bounty hunters Jim "Martin" Beavers and John E. Derrickson (aka Direkson), shot his dead body for the $1,700 reward offered for his capture ($200 by the State of Texas and $1,500 by Young County), dead or alive . An autopsy by Doctor R.N. Price determined that he was already dead when he had been shot, and that he had died of arsenic poisoning . The three men were arrested but released on bail . Harbolt was later shot in the Chickasaw Nation of the Indian Territory and Beavers and Derrickson each received 15 - year sentences . </P> <P> The five Marlow brothers had been falsely accused of stealing horses, and after the shootout that left three dead, George and Charles were finally acquitted in a Dallas trial . The two brothers then moved to Colorado and became deputies . </P>

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