RUSSIAN BILL AND SANDY KING

Russian Bill Tautenbaum and Sandy King were outlaws who got themselves arrested by Dangerous Dan Tucker. Russian Bill was caught on a stolen horse, and Sandy King stole cattle. Deputy Sheriff Tucker lodged them for safe keeping in what passed for a jail in Shakespeare, and then took off after other outlaws. While he was gone the local miners quickly grew weary of feeding them and taking time off from their claims to guard them. The vigilance committee was called in to session and it was decided that it would be fun to just ahead and hang the outlaws, It was a cold day, and there weren't any trees around so they just strung them from the rafters in hotel dining room. That way they did not even have to stop drinking whiskey. This is their burial site. They did not deserve grave markers.