Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-05-04
INTELLIGENCE.
ARREST OF HORSE THIEVES.

AlhDD1 VI AOAtSo AAAAo LINZ
dutch George" the Leader Of the
Band Eleven Stolen Animals Re-
covered The Prisoners to be Taken
to Pioche for Trial. ETC., ETC., etc.
Wsare now per nitted to make pub
lie the particulars of the arrest OF
Dutch George" the notorious horse
thief, and one of his accomplices. We
have been in po-ssessession of many of
the facts, which we propose here to
detail, for some days, but through
fear Of frustrating the plans of the Of
fers we felt under obligations to
keep silent. Indeed, it has been
known to the officers for the last
year that a regularly organized band
G horse and cattle thieves ere oper-
stng between here and Phoebe. 1t
vSalso known that George Lambert,
iiS Dutch George" was the leader
Of the band. He was arrested on one
OF two occasions, but always a
aged to escape through the INSULT
dency of evidence to convict. Lately
le disappeared from Phoebe, and
ABOUT the same time quite a numLer
u valuable horses came up missing.
!Sph 7. Parker, a man of extraor-
unarIy energy and perSiStencv. who
way loser by II Of the raids of Dutch
Iusrorge and his cOnfederateS, made up
w mllo 10 follow them. According
!S hetn"k their trail and followed it
.uiough all OF the meanderingS OF the
uNt,es, across mountains and valleys,
IalI ne came within Il few miles oi
aaMlton. Here he lost it, and al
@Ou!n he searched diligently for
m'tral DAYS, he was unable to diScov-
n anv clue OF the whereabouts of the
%eves' He finally gave up the
EaaSe' and going to Hamilton for that
purpose; ne took the stage last Sun
N.Y. 'or rloche. 1t happened that he
,r ~ WI lhe stage which was rObl ed,
eaua l'er proceeding to ElllSOn'Sranlh
~ returned to Hamilton with the
,%nueIeu driver in Il wagon. Be
pp o Tue lline that Parker started for
,,n on sunday afternoon and his
SSua 10 Hamilton Monday morning.
HIslil Sullivan had got word of
s rara George and his party. and tele-
Sf MI The facts to Sheriff Patterson.
V l%S brought Parker to Eureka on
no " .hay evening, and Tuesday morn
MI aV %ul sunrise. George was arrest
M, m% Newark valley. Constable Bell
and Wu1,putX Sheritfs TRAY. Johnson
\ %lhe Walsh nent out and assist
Ts inah,ng the arrest. George was
sNrso III tne act of stddliug his
sbsr 10 depart for the mountains
r. lhe officers came on him.
lbOr nnaue no show of resiS ance.
h saan wren Sheriff Sullivan began
IN Ia a nm on his arrival at the
10" .or III Snreds a Wells, Fargo
W. nroleck Tor Seventv-two dollars.
Gsorraoa ,ulie II was stolen property.
b mssJ5MaS securely irOned, and left
uha ~eui.ale IN IA gloomy cell. An
ct .nsarty, was then organized to 90
" dp5ttr The balance of the thieves.
ss,d rarker, Tray. johnson. and Ed.
Mr. TTh'ri'"lina constituted the
Anes ofiey made for the Snowfall
Nuib 81 mountains about forty miles
ly hiah Eureka. In a beautiful val
liaos,s n W m the mountains and
lon tbo inaccessible from every direc-
but se"e es found Oscar Butler, a boy
h eleven years of age, in charge
bal heeonn mead of stolen horses. He
ar fo. e" there for several DAYS, wait
tely" dutch George, and was en-
restad "a. OF provisions. He was
surnsd and yesterday the officers
By tho with him to Eureka, bring
leean h"ros0ses along. The boy made
With iho G;ieaSt OF everything connected
lbw il Is lhievinS transactions. and
6sOr" "s an assured fact that Dutch
bars,e Will have to spend a term Of
ane Res he state Prison. a man
se band was also connected with
fs nor as a sort of herder, but he
GhOf tho discovered, and the officers
Els,uIt opinion that it would be
butler, i; !" convict him. The boy
rho residoa son of old man Butler,
Funty m near Belmont, i'm I'VE
n, and t me lett home several wears
Ntves' nas been running with horse
Q netty much ever since. He
FFate's er;aabiy lie allowed to turn
renonuehce. Dutch George will
Piled Rnnsoered as the man who
hiy da"nlalo Bill i'm this town i'm the
tsoners Parker leaves with his
Egssaao 'or Phoebe on this morn
* ovss lie has travelled ON horse,
~''ef four hnndrad IL. -.