the story as read by mrs. king told how the posse missed shadowhawk in the darkness under the cliffs ; but when they got a little closer to the two who actually robbed the bank , the thieves opened fire on the posse thinking they were chasing them.-the posse returned fire and ended up killing both of them.- they took the bodies back to town.-some of the men at the saloon remembered playing cards with them a couple of nights before and identified them as carl delk and mitch mcelroy.-there had been another man with them ; his name had been tom bishop but they all called him lefty.-they had no idea what had happened to him.- they had said they were from a place on the ohio river called joeville , which was thirty or forty miles away.-they were buried in boot hill near the settlement where the bank had been robbed but no one ever realized they were the thieves .