Neil Cain rode into San Marcial wild for vengeance, knowing he'd end up dangling from hangman's noose....but he was going to take nine men to hell with him. Homer Hatten was a successful Kansas City advertising executive who wrote a half-a-dozen, highly acclaimed historical novels. According to news reports, he killed himself in June 1955 with an overdose of sleeping pills only a year after his first wife died in a fall at their home. He remarried shortly thereafter.