Butte record., 1856-08-02
Daring Highway Robbery
PURSUIT OF THE ROBBERS.
Great Excitement In Myers Street,
Full Particulars.

We learn from Mr.. Hutchehs of the Cali.
fornia Stage Company, that a daring rob-
berry was committed yesterday morning neal
the Miners Ranch, in this county. A man
named Hobbs, was riding on horseback in
Ranch Road, and had ridden ahead of the
team a short distance, when he was stopped
by three men on horseback, one of whom
inquired the name of the Ranch then in
sight, and after being told that it was the
Miners Ranch, one of them rode in advance
of Hobbs, seized his horse by the bride,
presented pistol, and told him to deliver
up his money or he would shoot him
Hobbs replied, "Saoot and be damnedr' and
jumping from his horse crouched in the
rear of the animal The robber let @ his
hold of the horse, aud struck him with his
pistol. Hobbs then endeaved to gain the
Miners Ranch by running for it, but was
brought down by shot through his thigh.
The villain then approached him and took
his money, amounting to about five hundred
dollars.
The other two men rode on and stoppedthe
teamster, from whom they took two hundred
and fifty dollars. They then took the woun-
ded man Hobbs, banJaged his wound so rs
to step the bleeding, placed him in the wag-
ca, aud sent him along to the Garden Ranch
where he remained when our informant
passed.
The robbers told Hobbs that he was foolish
for refusing tc give up his money-that they
did not desire 10 Kill hm-but were deter
mined to have his money if they had to take
his life to get it. They stated that they had
been driven out of San Francisco by the
Vigilance Committee, and were bound to
have their living in some way
They were all Americans, or at least, all
spoke the English language plainly, and
rode horses that appeared to be fresh and
in good condition One of them is described
as being large bay horse, newly shod, and
had the appearance of team animal, The
second one was described as beius brown
mare, and very 6ne animal, and the third
as light, silver grey Spanish horse.
We have been unable to obtain a descrip-
tion of the perpetrators of this daring out
rage. further than the fact that enc of them
was a large man with fat nose.
The teamster, whose name we have not
learned, the man Hobbs, and the robbers,
all took breakfast together at the Buffalo
Ranch, towards which the robbers started
after perpetrating the outrage.
The teamster, it ia reported, resides in
Strngtown, and Hobbs, we understand
keeps the Mountain Spring 1IcuSe, some
distance above Stringtowu on the Middle
Fork Feather River The robbers told the
teamster not to make a fool of himself, as
Hobbs had done, but to give up his money
quietly and he should not be hurt. He gave
them what he had on his person, some two
hundred AMI fly dollars; but they failed
t. discover one tn ju-and dollars in
dust, in the bottom of his wagon.
The patriotic proprietors of the Garden
Ranch, Immediately on the arrival of Hobbs
at their place, started for Wyandotte, to
notify Deputy Sheriff ford, and start a
pssse in pursuit Of the ruthlns.
When intelligence of the outrage reached
Orvville, hundreds volunteered their
services to rssist the officers in the search
Tho livery stables were Immediately invad- |
cd. and everything ia the shape of horse
flesh was pressed into service. Deputy |
Sheriff Mclaughlin, at tie head of posse
of eighteen or twenty men, was off and away
DER the hills. a short time after the receipt |
in Orovile of the Intelligence Of the
outrage; aud we are much mistaken if
they do net return with the rascals, or rem !
der the mountains and foot hills of Butte too
hot to hold them.
1t is said that the rascals took the horse
ridden by Hobbs, telling him that they wo'd
leave it some place where he could obtain it.
GoING TO DlssAND.-fhe True Califor-
nian says the Vigilance Committee are 60
ing to dsband soon, and wants the public
to prepare TO sustain them after they shall
have surrendered their functions into the
hands of their fellow citizens. The people
are called upon by this mobocratic print, to
sustain men who have violated our Consti-
tuition, trampled upon our laws, and dis
graced our institutions and laws in the face
of the whole civilized world Perhaps the
leople Will sustain them-we don't know
In case they disband, and exhibit the requi-
site repentance, we would advise the authori-
ties to te,nper justice, with mercy, and not
execute them in public.
~ During the session of the Democratic
Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, there we're
consumed every day at the Burnet House.
thirty bushels of Strawberries, the cost of
which was over 5000, and the picking of
which employed thirty women per day.
WHAT Is TURNER I'm the recent trial
of the German Turner's for riot, in Cincin-
natl, some discussion arose as to the char
acter of the German Turner's Society, when
Judge Stale, one of the counsel said:
The name meant gymnast. 1t was estab-
lished in Germany in connection with the
the Universities, to promote and develop the
physical man, and also for the improvement