while he was writing a letter home to his mom and sister he wrote a postscript that he just heard 5 gunshots and had to go see what happened.. His report is called “Horrible Affair” John Campbell murdered two policemen, Dennis McMahon and Thomas Reed. They were friends of his. The killer ran and hid in a mine, local folks sealed the mine up after the killer went inside. When authorities rolled the stone away, 5 dead indians were inside. http://twaintimes.net/popup/friends.html The indian family dies in the cave as a result of the attempt to trap the killer in the mine shaft. it shakes up sam that the racism made them not even count. sam had just written some racist crap against chinese people. Injun Joe from Tom Sawyer is taken from this episode.