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Not realizing the seriousness of the wound, the besiegers warned that if he did not surrender the house would be burned down around him.

Receiving no answer, they set the fire.

When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.

Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.

Several slugs fired into the bed jerked aside the blanket to reveal an apparently lifeless hand.

Shot six or eight times the body was draped with Russell's pistol, belt, and cartridges.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.