In terms of strength alone, Jack is not a qualified sheriff.

He lacks the most important thing in the western region, strength!

Jack's strength is between an ordinary cowboy and an elite cowboy, and he is relatively powerful among the security officers in the town, but he is not qualified to go up.

If it weren't for the drama of the deputy sheriff dying in battle and the sheriff hanging up the seal, he wouldn't have been able to become the sheriff.

The general is picked out of the short, and the one who is picked out is still a short, but he is relatively tall among the short.

Before the accident, everything was fine.

In the event of an emergency, Jack's lack of strength is undoubtedly highlighted.

As the sheriff of the town, Dinghai Shenpin, his rapid-fire level is not even as good as that of a wanted criminal, and his death is really not unjust.

"No one is allowed to shoot, or I'll shoot her!"

Horace pointed a gun at the hostage, and if Lin Yao remembered correctly, the hostage was the nightingale in the bar.

It's the girl who stood at the door of the bar on the day he first returned to Stone Town, wearing a red dress, saying that he looked very young and wanted to invite him to his room to sit down.

Compared with the showmanship of the past, she looks like a mourner today.

The wanted criminal shot and killed the town's sheriff in front of her, and she had never seen such a bloody and violent scene.

"I want a horse, bread and water, and if you fulfill my wishes, I'll leave the town, and there's nothing to lose to you." As he spoke, Horace kissed Nightingale on the cheek and whispered, "Baby, you are so fragrant, I bet you must be tender and juicy, and I will come to you when I have the chance." ”

Nightingale couldn't stop sobbing, not daring to resist the fierce-looking wanted criminal.

Seeing that the pedestrians were getting more and more around, and the guards didn't dare to shoot at all because of the hostages, Lin Yao sighed and pulled out his revolver.

Raise the gun, aim, and the whole action is done in one go.

Bang!!

The bullets erupted with the sound of the gunshot, ripping Horace's head straight open, and the mess splashed Nightingale in the face.

Looking at the headless corpse that fell to the ground, Lin Yao indifferently inserted the revolver into the gun bag and said, "Call the priest in the town to come over, we need to prepare a funeral for the heroic sheriff." ”

After speaking, Lin Yao glanced at the nightingale and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"No, it's fine..."

Nightingale wiped the blood from her face with a handkerchief, looked at him with panicked and excited eyes, and whispered, "You shoot so cool!" If you want, I am willing to provide you with some free services, which can effectively relieve your fatigue. ”

"It only makes me more tired."

Lin Yao joked with a smile, and then looked at Horace's corpse: "Throw him out to feed the dogs, this damn wanted criminal, we lost a good sheriff." ”

For Jack's death, Lin Yao couldn't let go of it for a long time.

It's not how deep their friendship is, it's that Jack's death will disrupt his plans.

He is the sheriff of the town, and according to Texas custom, the sheriff dies in action while in office, and the position of sheriff is placed by the deputy sheriff.

In other words, Lin Yao is the sheriff of the town, and this position will make it difficult for him to get out for a while.

In the afternoon, amid the prayers of the pastor, Sheriff Jack was buried in the cemetery.

There were a lot of people attending the funeral, and people with heads and faces in the town came.

As is customary, Lin Yao also took over the post of sheriff, and news of his succession will be sent by telegram to the state legislature, which will then be recorded in the archives of the judicial branch of the state legislature.

From today onwards, he is the sheriff in the state legislature, and his status can be officially recognized.

"Sergeant Stephen, congratulations on your appointment, can I borrow some of your time?"

In the evening, the tax collector Seravi came to Lin Yao's house and brought up the old matter, hoping that Lin Yao would accept the proposal to reduce the guards.

Lin Yao didn't agree, but retorted: "Our former sheriff was just beaten to death in the street today, and you still want to reduce the guards, don't you think that the guard force needs to be strengthened?" ”

"I'm sad about Sheriff Jack, but it's a fortuitous event, and it's not enough to represent anything."

"On the contrary, the number of guards exceeds the standard, which has affected the prosperity of the town, can you imagine that a town with a population of several thousand people actually has thirty-five guards?"

"The residents are already disgusted, the streets are full of guards, and when they see these people, they always feel that the next second of gunfire may happen around everyone, which makes everyone's spirit highly tense."

Seravi brought up the old story and took out the financial statements in the folder: "Here is our list of taxes this month, you see, how long can our finances be supported." ”

Lin Yao took it and looked at it.

The deficit is serious, and according to this trend, seventy percent of the fiscal revenue in the future will be used for public security in small towns.

For 35 people, eating and drinking and maintaining firearms every day is a lot of money, plus they have to pay salaries, so there are even more places where they need to use money.

The first month was okay, because there were donations from the residents of the town, and most of the money did not go to the tax treasury.

Next month will not be so lucky, and the police will not be able to call on residents to donate every month.

"The five mounted police stationed at the railway station were sent by the council and are not under our jurisdiction, in fact the number of guards in the town should be thirty."

"Well, twenty-nine, poor Sheriff Jack was killed today."

"In this way, I will announce the reduction of the number of guards to twenty in half a month."

"Of course, this will exceed the standard of twelve, but I will not let the extra people become a burden, I will let them hunt down the wanted criminals near the territory, and exchange the wanted criminals for a bounty to make up for the financial expenses in this regard."

Lin Yao conditionally agreed, and it was okay to reduce the number of guards, and the time would be half a month later.

Half a month has passed since the killing of Hart, and in the next half a month, if Hanon's revenge does not come, it means that he is not a simple-minded person, and he may retaliate, and it is difficult to say about time.

There is only the truth of being a thief for a thousand days, and there is no way to prevent thieves for a thousand days.

He will gradually hand over the matter at hand within half a month, and if Hanon has no signs of doing it yet, he will hand over the position of sheriff and move to the big city with his family.

Since the train robbery, Lin Zhizhou has discussed moving with Mary.

A month is enough time for them to sell their cattle and sheep, pastures, houses and other property.

......

Time passed again, twenty-six days after Hart was killed.

Hanon's attack had not yet arrived, and the family's cattle and sheep and pasture had been sold, not far from Stone Town.

Just when Lin Yao felt that he would be able to leave peacefully and start a new life in a few days, the people from the New York Detective Agency, who had disappeared for a long time, returned to Stone Town.

"Hello, Mr. Sokoto, is there any progress?"

Lin Yao sat in the office of the security station, looking at the famous detective Koto who came from afar.

Sokoto didn't talk nonsense to him, and said bluntly: "We caught Billy and found 24 gold bars in his hideout, and he admitted that he had hidden some of the gold bars and provided us with valuable information. ”

"He told us that you were seen chasing a bandit into the woods, who we confirmed to be a Pitt robber, a partner of Hart, the leader of the train robbers, and one of the bearers of the gold bars."

"It took you two hours to get back to town after you parted at the scene, and when you came back, you told Billy that you didn't catch up with Pete and let him escape."

"But during our investigation, Pete has not been seen since that day, he is not alone, and if he has a valuable gold bar and escaped safely, there is no reason why he should not leave with his family."

"But he didn't, he really disappeared, no one alive, no body dead."

"So we suspect that you did not let him escape, but killed him, falsely claiming that he had escaped, with the aim of swallowing this batch of gold bars."

Bang Bang Bang!!

Lin Yao smiled and applauded, and said, "It's a very good story, you should write it, it's really a shame to be a detective." You have a lot of point, but I want to reaffirm, what about the evidence? ”

To catch a thief is to catch dirty, how can you call a thief without evidence.

Hearing these words, Sokoto calmly replied: "The evidence will be there, we have our eyes on you." ”