Interesting. There is the true story of Teddy out on his ranch and three guys stole something. Either some cows or a boat? Anyways, Teddy tells his workers to keep working and he goes after the thieves.
Three days later he walks them into town to the sheriff. He found them way out in the woods and it took him two(?) days to bring them back. (It may have been much longer?) The sheriff wondered why he didn’t just kill them to save the trouble!
In order to stay awake while he watched the prisoners he read aloud from a book he had along. He quipped that the prisoners were probably glad to be in jail, as now they didn’t have to listen to him read all night long!
So, he had a gun trained on them all that time? I can’t imagine anybody wrangling three other guys for that long ;-)