Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-09-21

LATEST ITEMS OF NEWS RE.
LATIVE To THE PURSUIT.
OF THE ESCAPED CONVICTs
FROM THE STATE PRISON.
Chief Downey, Detective Lackey,
Oticer Morrow. and the balance Of
their party who went from Virginia in
pursuit Of the escaped State Prison
eonvicts, returned last evening. They
have had a pretty rough ride OF
it and got on the track of some OF
the fugitives, yet were unsuccessful
In capturing any Of them. Their
horses were worn out, and they them
selves were much in need Of proper
food and rest. Much complaint Is
made that no inducement In the shape
OF reward Is yet offered for the cap
ture Of these escaped desperadoes.
Very few persons care to go on a long,
toilsome and costly hunt after such
really dangerous, we'll armed men
without pay or the hope of adequate
compensation. A reward should have
been offered at once, but 1t Is not too
late to do It even now. The returned
pursuers last evening gave us a pretty
full account Of their journey, but 1t Is
embodied in the following from the
Carson Register Of this morning. to-
sether with other items Of interest rel
alive to the fugitiyes and pursuit after
them. The Register says:
General Batterman and Lieutenant
Lyman and the National Guard were
yesterday engaged in securing the
willows along Carson river, from a
point a short distance this side the
confluence Of the east aud west forks
to Cradlebaugh's bridge-with what
result we have not learned. At s
o'clock Monday evening, John Squires,
one Of the Verdi n robbers, and the
said) eleven others went to Cradle
baugh's bridge and demanded provi-
sions. which was given them. Subse-
Quently three Of the party went to an
Indian camp near James ranch, this
side of Genoa, where two Of them
dressed up in the clothes Of a buck
Indian and the other II took the
clothes Of a squaw. About the same
hour that Squires applied for provi-
sions at Cradlebaugh's, Pat Hurley
and another convict called at Newton's
Hot Spring ranch, two miles further
down the river and on the eastern side.
Hurley was spokesman, told many
fine stories about how no came there,
but c%ontradicted himself several times.
Both convicts obstinately refused to
enter the house. Hurley wore no pam
falcons, and had on a pair Of white
drawers. Mr.. Newton readily recog-
uized Hurley, but was afraid to at
tempt his arrest, believing the balance
of the party to be near by. The negro
Pruitt went into Genoa Monday night
and obtained provisions.
Sheriff Swift and his Indian guide
returned to this city yesterday after
o having left the Virginia citizen
scouts at Hot Springs. In Walker river
Valley. Sheriff Swift, Sheriff Atkin-
son OF Storey, Chief of Police Downey,
Detective Ben Lackey and eight Others
from Virginia and an Indian, left here
at 8 O'Clock Monday morning, and took
and followed the track Of the convicts
from the prison wall. The escapers
crossed the river half a mile below the
Mexican dam. Half a mile up the
hill beyond the river they separated
eight going up the river, eight down
the river, and the balance Of the party
tthirteen) kept straight ahead toward
Pine Nut Valley. The pursuers kept
the straight track. Through the sand
hills they could track their game
and travelled at a good gait, but
along the rocky ridges they had to
proceed slowly. Reaching Pine Nut
they found an old coal burner, a
Dutchman, who had been tied up by
the convicts and robbed of four
Naturally enough, the Dutch
was furious and wanted to join In
the pursuit, which he did as o o rs q
horse could DO procured. The Dutch
man said there were six Of the robbers
and that one Of them was called Burke
BY his companions. They had three
Henry rifles, a double-barreled shot
gun, and one or two 6-shooters. They
robbed three cabins Of provisions.
The convicts again divided In Pine
Nut, and the pursuers followed after
the six who had the Dutchman's
horses. The pursuers were then about
six hours behiad the pursued, and
night was coming on. The Indian
tracked the ~convicts until some time
after dark, when they struck a long
rocky ridge, where 1t would have been
impossible to follow tracks eve In
daylight. Here the Indian stopped.
scanned the distant mountain peaks
and hills. and finally said that away
over, some three or four miles, wei
up the side of a rugged peak, was a
spring Of water, and he thought the
robbers had gone there. Thither the
pursuers wendell their way through
the dark, over rocks, brush and preci-
pices, at the imminent risk Of their
lives. At length, after much mlsgiv-
ing among the whites, the spring was
reached. Here the party rested until
daybreak, when they found the trail
of the conyicts not ten steps from
where they unsaddled. The pursuit
was renewed. and on reaching the Hot
Springs the officers learned that they
were still Just six hours behlnd-the
six convicts having passed that point
nc l o'clock in the morning. From
Hot Springs the convicts took the main
road east through Mason Valley, in
the direction of Belmont. Taking a
short rest at the Springs, Sheriff swift
and his Indian. whose horses had given
out, turned back, while Atkinson,
Lackey, Downey, the Dutchman and
eight others continued the pursuit.
Jones and Burke, of this convict squad,
are both thoroughly familiar with the
country south IS. far rs Los Angeles
and the Colorado river; but 1t were
better for them that Old Nick himself
we're after them than that they should
let up for a single hour with the Lackey
party In pursuit.
LATER.
A dispatch from Wellington's Sta
tion, at I o'clock last night, says that
the pony rider, then thirty hours out
from .Sweetwater, had not arrived:
The Wellington hostler took the mall
and started south at noon yesterday,
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