Another man came climbing in the window to avenge his fellow gangsters.

Bill reached for a rifle which lay on the floor and shot first.
When he took count a few minutes later he discovered that he had killed five men and wounded a sixth, who escaped in the thick of the fight.
The woman, who had been knocked unconscious by one of the desperadoes, was soon revived.

She was the stock-tender's wife, and had been attacked the by gang as soon as they had slain her husband.
The passengers of the Overland stage, which rolled in as Bill was reviving the terrified woman, were given a view of Western life which none of them ever forgot.
Bill was the hero of the occasion, and a real hero he was, for probably never has a man won such a victory against such terrific odds in all the history of the war against the ruffians of the West.
It was at Springfield, Missouri, that Bill had his celebrated fight with Dave Tutt.

The fight put an end to Tutt's career.

I was a personal witness to another of his gun exploits, in which, though the chances were all against him, he protected his own life and incidentally his money.