The only contact the small mining camp of Jarbidge had with the outside world in 1916 was the stagecoach that visited once a week, bringing in the money used by merchants to cash miners' paychecks.

The stagecoach was late Dec. 5, the day before payday. A group of men gathered to search for the coach, finding it with Frank Searcy sitting in the driver's seat — dead from a gunshot wound. The mail sacks had been emptied of $3,200, and an envelope in the coach bore a bloody palm print.

The miners formed a posse to search for the hand that matched the print, each knowing the killer had to be a colleague. The posse began turning up physical evidence: a bloody coat, a bloodstained shirt found at the bottom of the river, a bag of coins. The shirt and coat matched clothes worn by most men in the

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