The Nevada journal., 1856-11-14

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fore he stopped at thiscabin to get one
of the Farleys to go his bail; Webster
then told me that the ofdestune ofthem
was his principal witness to get him out
of the Sand Hill affair of his went to
Wood after got this information and
asked him if he would give anything to
have the men brought back and perhaps
asked ifthey would pay my expenses to
do it as had got nothing before for ar
resting Webster, not even horse hire, he
said he would not give anything but told
me to go and see Boss Wright; went
and found Boss Wright and told him my
object, and asked if he would give any
thing to have the men brought back,
that thought knew where they were
and could get them; he thought mo-
ment and said he would give $500 to me
to bring them back. and said he would
go with me I told him ! did not want
him to go as had man to go with me
intending to take Bruce Garvey; we
made the arrangements to 60, fixed the
hour for starting at O'Clock and / told
him the place near the Quartz mill l
was busy that afternoon and not able to
start at the hour, / saw Wright and
asked him to wait one half hour longer,
he said he would; that time had hardly
elapsed before starting; ] met McCutch-
in on the sidewalk near Hirschman's ci-
gar shop, he told me of these two horses
being tied in the ravine near his house,
and he thought they belonged to the
escaped prisoners; Event and saw Gar
vey and told him the particulars and got
our horses; Butterfeld got Boss Wright's
horse; Wright had said that he would
be at his Office when we were ready to
| go, so went there with the horses l
had the horses there at the door, SAVERS
was on my horse, just then two or three
men came up street and called me out
into the street, one of the men l knew
by sight, who said he wanted to tell me
about the horses that were tied in the
ravine / told him McCutchin had spo-
ken about them and we were all ready to
go there were two or three persons
there that wanted to go but / did not
want them, and said so; we went up
through Pine street and down Broad St.
Garvey taking Wright's gun, Wright
went through the square to get his horse
at Lancaster's stable; we went over the
bridge and waited for Wright several
minutes, he did not come and we went
up on the hill and came back again to
the bridge; whilst sitting there on horse
back we saw Wright coming out of the
stable with somebody else; said that
supposed Boss was waiting for some
body when Garvey said there is too ma
ny of us and don't let us go; we went
on up the hill and Wright overlook as,
no person being with him we went over
towards Gold Flat until we got to the
place McCutchin had described to me
| (this was about 7 p NJ or little after)
we tied our horses and three men came
along on horseback and rode up into the
woods, l think on saw log road, we
heard the rafting of chains, Bruce re-
marked that they were drawing logs
we went on until we got quite distance
and l being little ahead heard mo-
ton in the bushes, as something moving;
/ waited there until Bruce and Wright
came up and told them the horses were
down there; l think gave low whis-
tie and think some one answered it;
Wright asked me if 1 was sure the hor-
ses were there, told him l was quite
sure and that the men were there too,
l asked him if he heard the whistle and
he said he did not, but am quite sure
some one whistled the way | did; just
at that moment saw three men COM
ing towards us in near the same direc-
ton that we came, Wright said that it
was Lew or Dave or Billy and the boys;
that was the first knew of johnson and
the others coming at all we waited un-
til they came up and agreed to go in
twos, one of each two having double
barreled shotgun Wright or Garvey
then proposed that one 60 ahead and
find the horses, / went ahead to find the
horses and when I got into the ravine
Wright and Garvey were not great
way behind me; When l saw what /
supposed to be the horses, something
like white blanket, gave a low whis-
tie and Wright and Garvey came up l
was then about half way across the ra-
vine, | said to Garvey that the object
/ w as thc HOlScS VI d COW L went up TO-
wards them and discovered the two hor-
ses standing there tied, / whistled low
and Wright and Garvey came up; /
thought heard an answer, a low whis-
tie to mine and | whistled again, some
one who appeared to me to be in cut
said who are you or something like it, /
saw him there, Garvey said that was
Jim Webster's voice." said "I guess
it is' and raised my gun and cooked it,
Wright did the same thing, we were
side by side almost touching each other,
Garvey jumped on the bank and run to-
wards the head of this cut with his pis-
tol in his hand; when the person said
"who are you,' l said that if he moved
l would kill him; / then whistled again
for johnson and those who were on the
hill side to cross over as it was under
stood on the start, l did not hear any
answer to the whistle and I sung out
pretty loud Dave close down." I think