Mitigating Jeopardy - The Frontier Justice Tales of Judge Steele vol 1

Peril Press presents:

The Frontier Justice Tales of Judge Steele vol 1

by Lon Williams



Western Action, October 1952

Judge Steele

MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES

By Lon Williams

Judge Wardlow Steele had to learn his profession as he went along . . .

2700 Words



Western Action, February 1953

A Judge Steele Story

PROPTER DEFECTUM

by Lon Williams

What seemed like a plain case of murder was now shaping up as an accident—but Judge Steele figured that this accident was too danged convenient, and too pat. . .

4100 Words



Western Action, April, 1953

A "Judge Steele" Story

A MATTER OF VENUE

by Lon Williams

It was these danged technicalities in the law that made Judge Wardlow Steele curse the day he took to the bench, and yearn for Vigilante justice!

4100 Words



Western Action, August 1953

"Judge Steele" Story

AND SATAN CAME ALSO

by Lon Williams

The more experience he got, the surer Judge Steele became that he didn't belong on the bench. And here was a murderer before him—but Defense Attorney Demeree was so positive he'd acquit the scoundrel that he didn't challenge a single juror!

4100 Words



Western Action, December 1953

Judge Steele

ONCE IN JEOPARDY

by Lon Williams

At the mere sight of Cynthia Bondell, Judge Steele knew the jury would bring in any verdict her heart desired. But the judge also felt that nothing in the world would be better for Flat Creek than the hanging of defendant—one to which Cynthia was rumored to be engaged!

6000 Words



This edition includes the original illustrations as well as a gallery of the covers to the issues of Western Action these stories came from.