Highwayman

The reward got up to six thousand before Red Dust was caught.

All through the trial, he was at both open and unrepentant, freely admitting to robbing dozens of stagecoaches and killing at least thirty US Army soldiers, and yet also oddly defiant, as around half of the crimes on his record he insisted he had not done.

No matter, those that he admitted to were more than enough.

As the noose was fitted around his neck, and the last rites given, the hangman asked for his last words.

“I’ll be back.” he spat as the hatch below him opened.