In my senior year of high school, I wrote a paper on outlaws and gunmen. One was shot in the back by a Frenchman. Do you know who it was? Eugene Harshbarger Guatemala City, Guatemala The gunman you’re thinking of is Jack Slade. A French-Canadian named Jules Reni had been stealing horses from Slade’s express company station in Julesburg, Colorado. While Slade investigated the crime, Reni walked up to him on the street and shot him twice at close range. After Slade fell to the ground, the F


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