At Deadwood on August 2, 1876, Jack McCall shot "Wild Bill" Hickok in the back of his head. When a vigilante court tried him, he claimed Bill had killed his brother, and the vigilantes let him go. Later, because of his boasting, at Laramie City, US Marshal Balcombe of Nebraska arrested him and turned him over to US Marshal Burdick of Dakota. In October a grand jury indicted him, and he was tried December 4-5-6, 1876, found guilty by a jury before Trial Judge Peter C. Shannon, who sentenced him to hang. William Pound was US Attorney, and Gen. W. H. H. Beadle and Oliver Shannon were court-appointed defense attorneys. The US courtroom was on the second story of the Morrison Building. Four witnesses told of the shooting in Mann and Lewis saloon in Deadwood, where Bill was playing poker but not with his back to a wall. As he toppled over, the Deadman's hand, black aces and eights, was displayed.