Like you I was curious about the circumstances surrounding Banta's arrest. I found an interesting story on the internet titled, "The Dogs of War Unleashed: The Devil Concealed in Men Unchained" By Joe Baulch for the West Texas Historical Association. http://digital.library.schreiner.edu/sldl/pdfs/Baulch.pdf, this is the link. Banta was my Creat Grandfather.