Slade retorted that he would live long enough to wear one of Jules' ears on his watch guard.

Just at that time the stage came along, and the superintendent happened to be on board. He ordered Jules' arrest, and they proceeded to hang him. He was strangled until black in the face, and then was let go on the promise that he would forever leave this part of the country. This promise was kept -- for a time.

Slade was taken to St. Louis where seven of the buckshot were cut out of him and the other six remained in his body until his death.

After a time, they were both back in the Scotts Bluff country, and each with the threat to kill the other on sight. Slade laid the matter before the officers at Fort Laramie, and promised to take their advice. They decided that Jules must be captured or killed, and Slade had four men sent to Bordeaux, then on Chausen's ranch, the first station east of the fort, where Jules was said to be located.

They captured him with little opposition says Coutant, and bound him hand and foot. When Slade reached Bordeaux, this was the condition in which he found him. He went up to the helpless man, deliberately shot him twice, killing him instantly. He then returned to Fort Laramie, and went through the farce of giving himself up, and was discharged. This was in 1862. It is believed that there was no mutilation, and that this was just an exaggeration of partisans growing out of the threat of some time before.