The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-18
SPEEDY JUSTlCE.
Two More Thieves Meet their Desert
TIE Late Hanging AFFAIR nj P0eb1>


The Late Hanging Amir nj Poeble.
The Colorado Chieftais contains a full ac
count of the late hanging affair at Pueblo,
from which we extract the following particu-
lars: On last Friday night citizen, whose
name we have not learned, living ON the
Kiowa, had three large American horses
and trailed them over the Divide in this d.
rection, until he lost the trail between the
Chico and the FOntaine. He then rode
down to the FOntaine and secured the servi-
ces Of TempletOn, the noted trailer and thief
hunter, and sheriff of FL PasO county. The
two reached Pueblo at daylight on Monday
morning, and found that two men with three
horses had tried to run the bridge over the
Arkansas about two o'clock that morning,
but the bridgekeeper becoming aroused and
going out, they paid their toll and went on.
TemplesOn and the owner Of the hOrses,
scarcely hating for bit Of food, rode on
with all speed, and just as they reached the
top of the bluff at the St. Charles, at Ran
dal's CRUISING, espicd the thieves descending
the bluffs into the bushes half mile below
the road. The owner Of the horses went to
Randalps and waited while TempletOn went
down and nabbed the thieves and their booty
and brought them to RandalPs house, where
they were confronted by the owner of the
horses. The culprits begged hard to be al
lowed to go by giving up the stock, but II
was no 60; they were made to mount two Of
the homes they had stolen, leading the third,
while their captors rode behind with their
arms, and marched back. When they
reached Pueblo, just before night, Mr.. Tenn
pleton placed the two men in Jail for safe
keeping until he should go up the FOntaine.
About IL o'clock at night TempletOn
went To Sheriff Allen ami demanded the
prisoners, saying that it ascoOler travelling
in the night, and they would go on their
journey. The prisoners were delivered ac-
cordingly, and nothing more was known I'M
til morning, when the bodies Of the two
thieves were discovered hanging To tele-
graph pole just in the northern edge Of
town. Coroner Rice held an inquest, but no
facts were elected to show at whose hands
the parties came to their death, and during
the day Sheriff Allen had the bodies buried
in the Pot,er's Field.
The real names Of these unfortunate scOlin-
drels have not been ascertained. One Of
them, however, was identified As one of the
COe gang, and known as TEX He was
also identified by Mr.. Cos and others Of a
party Of immigrants just arrived from Kan
sas, as one Of party of three who followed
those immigrants for nearly two hundred
miles ON the plains, and who were arrested
BY them, finally, and turned over to the
military authorities at Fort Wallace, but rs
the officers had nothing to do with them,
they were let go. Mr.. Goss says that this
man "Tex" was well known about Els
worth as a desperate, and the citizens Of
that place advised Goss's party to shoot the
three thieves ifthey followed the train further.
1t certainly is remarkable, and another
repetition Of the history Of crime, that this
outlaw, "Tex," who was arrested with the
Coe gang, brought here, and discharged for
insufficient proof against him, should, after
this lapse Of time. for the commission Of
other crimes, be brought here and hung but
a stones throw from the tree upon which
Coo came to his untimely death under SINH
lar circumstances.