 The Hugoton party, believing they had killed all of the Woodsdale group, returned, saying that they had killed the party in a shootout.However, the surviving member and a group of haymakers who witnessed the event stated that the Woodsdale party had been captured, disarmed, and then executed.The state militia was called out and the Hugoton men arrested, but it was soon determined that no court had jurisdiction in No Man's Land.