INT. JUDGE’S OFFICE - DAY

JUDGE TITUS CASTLEBERRY is sitting at his desk talking with MARSHAL SAML HOLODAY.

CLOSE ON --- STACK of WANTED POSTERS on the desk.

JUDGE TITUS CASTLEBERRY
C.S. Fly took photographs of these outlaws at one time or another in their illustrious criminal careers. I had those photographs sent over to the printers for wanted posters printed for the informed citizenry.

Judge hands Saml the stack of the Wanted Posters. Marshal rifles through them taking a look.

MARSHAL SAML HOLODAY
I recognize Jesse Livermore. I took him in back in the Dakotas a couple of years ago for raisin’ a ruckus in the laudanum zone with the Deadwood concubines—opium wars.

JUDGE TITUS CASTLEBERRY
Livermore’s a mesculine trafficker. That’s why that peyote button is on the four corners of his poster. Have your deputies post them up around town. Reward is five thousand dollars for each one of the Crooked Creek Gang brought in dead or alive.

MARSHAL SAML HOLODAY
Rightly so, judge. I’ll have my men get right on it. If you don’t mind my asking, how was it the Crooked Creek Gang got their moniker?

JUDGE TITUS CASTLEBERRY
Chadwick Jaystock recruited nine men and one woman for outlaw duty including himself as eleven members of a rank cowboy militia. One of them is a man of the cloth. Since their inception they’ve multiplied and recruited more women. They hole up in the Pryors at Crooked Creek in a place where Yellowstone cutthroat trout are found.

MARSHAL SAML HOLODAY
Judge, this Crooked Creek Gang has the same bad and ugly as Kid Wade and his pony boys did.

JUDGE TITUS CASTLEBERRY
That’s right—you took Wade in a few years ago in Nebraska if my memory serves me right. He was your prisoner and you and Wade missed the train that was to transport Wade to stand trial.