Jack Elliott, who was agent for the cattle association, located the cattle, and he and a banker named Sterling came up from Colorado to replevin them. Cochran and Holliday were both in Kimball, and the cattle were in charge of George Zimmerman, and two other nun. and were just over the line in Sioux county. It took a bit of maneuvering to get tin' cattle nver the line into Box Butte county, but it was accomplished in time, and then Sheriff Hall served the necessary writ, and Sterling and Elliott started for Hemingford with the cattle. It was nearly dark and they night cm the prairie. To their surprise in the morning Cochran and Holliday were on hand. It later developed that their friend in Hemingford had been advised, and he in turn had sent a wire to Holliday at Kimball. Cochran and Holliday had ridden the nearly one hundred miles from Kimball during the night.

Sheriff Hall had gone home, but he came back in the morning, to find that the rustlers were trying to prevent the movement of the cattle towards the railroad. When he arrived they rode away, but followed along at a distance of a mile or so, keeping on the ridges, evidently debating what to do. They finally evolved a plan, of having their friend Webb replevin the cattle in turn. "Bob" Noleman of Alliance was secured, and the Colorado crowd had secured the services of Tuttle and Tash. Tuttle directed the legal process, and Noleman had Webb, who had been very busy condemning the procedure, ask for the writ. Tuttle had wisely anticipated that this would be done, and had put the name of Webb in the original process. Sheriff Hall told him that he was one of the parties defendant, and there was no way by which a defendant could counter with an alternate writ.