sentences:  Tunstall's ranch-hands and other local citizens formed a group known as the Regulators to avenge his murder, and counter what was believed to have been a corrupt territorial criminal justice system controlled by allies of Murphy, Dolan, and company.The Regulators received their cloak of legality from Justice of the Peace of the town of Lincoln, John B. Wilson.Justice of the Peace Wilson issued warrants for the arrests of John Tunstall's killers, and appointed Regulator Dick Brewer a Special Constable to execute the warrants.