Shirly here is your story I don't need your Mail after all I was trying to give you the wrong Info on the wrong name Sorry.

June 6, 1873, The sheriff, Smith and Constable J.W. McCartney nabbed two mule thieves. The Wichita Eagle, June 12, 1873, reported:
Sheriff Meagher, Smith and Carty, who went after the theves who stole Mr.Wilkin's mules, returned on last Friday. They overtook the property and the "Larkies" at Eureka, Greenwood county. The names of these patrons of mule flesh are Francis M. Carson and John Jeffson. They were terribly afraid of being brought back to Wichita, asserting that they preferred to die right there. At a preliminary examination Carson plead guilty and they were bound over for an appearance at the district court of the above mentioned county. As Judge Campbell's court sits next week, these wayward boys will be pounding stone inside the penitentiary walls within two weeks

A week later McGartney and Smith again teamed up to arrest two suspected murderers. The Eagle June 26,1873

Mr. King and his son, from Texas, who were arrested here last week by Constable McCartney and Deputy Sheriff Smith for the killing of a man in Clay county, Texas, were dicharged by "Squire D.A. Mitchell upon the ground of self-defense.