Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-08
ARREST OF HORSE THIEVES AND
RECOVERY GF the SHOLEN
PROPERTY.

PROPERTY.
Tie Eareka :. e"ti"ei of the lth in
slant narrates the following inter
.>tiuS ace cunt Of horse thief and
the. recovery of his booty:
We are now permitted to make public
the particulars of the arrest nf " Dutch
Groryr the nntori rUs horse thief, md
one OF his accumplices. We have been
III possession OF many oi the facts.
which We propose here II Il ttil, tor
SOM days, but through fear of fru>tr;,t-
iny thu plans OF the officers We felt M
der obligations to keep ,ii, ut. Indeed,
IT has been known t. the officers for thu
IS; wax that a regularly urran.z d land
Of horsA and cattle thieves Were Optrs.t-
IN hrtwern here and Hioth". 1t WIS
ais known that George Ltmper,. alias
" ID itch George, was the leader Of the
band He was arrested on one or two
occasions. bat always n IIIIesI Ia sc pr
through tin INSULT cheney OF evid to
convict Lately hr dis, ptHrcd from
Piurhr, and about the same time q aie d,
number Of valuable horses cil.i- up
missing. joseph T. Parker. nan of
extraordinary cnernv and psrsist-ncv.
who WIS loser by ore of the raids #
! Datch George and his conf-drr,ites,
ma le NJ his mind to follow them. Ac-
,nr,Ii,r,ly he took their trail and fol-
lowed through all th, mranderinys of
the thieves. across mountains and val
l,ys. until he came within few miles of
II ,miltou. II Re he lost it, and al
| { Al
DAYS. he was unable. to discover any clue
of the whereabouts of the thieves. He
finally gave mp the Oh rse, aud going to
II unilton for that pnrpos-. h. took the
stage last Sunday ior Piochr. 1t hap
prned that he WA, on the stage which
WAS robbed. and after pr"c-edins to FL
lison's ranch h. returned To Hamilton
with the murdered driver in wagon.
Between the time that Parker started for
Phoebe on Sunday afternoon and his re-
turn To Hamilton NJ ndav morning.
| Sheriff Sullivan had got word OF Dutch
George and his party, aud telegraphed
the facts t. Sheriff Patterson: This
brought Parker to Eureka on Monday
evening, and Tnesiay morning abont
sunrise, G-orge WAS arrested IN Newark
valley. Constable Bell and ID pnty
She,iffs TRAY. johnson and Nike Walsh
went out and assisted in making the
arrest. George was Just in the act Of
saddling his horse to- depart for the
mountains when the officers came on
him. H.. mail. no show If resistance,
though When Sheriff Sullivan began to
search him upon his arrival Mt the Jail
b.. tore in shr-i> Wells, Fargo Il Co
check for seventy-two dollars. We
presume it was stolen property.
George WAS securely ironed, and left
to mediate in gloomy cell. Another
purity WAS then orglniz-d to 90 ont after
tht. balance OF the thieves. NJ. Parker,
Tray. J hnson, and Edward Charbnnn.
constituted the force. They made for
the SNOWFALL range Of mountains about
forty miles south Of Eureka. II a beam
tiff valley high ND in the mountains
and almost ir,rcessihle from every Iii.
r+c,ion they fonnd Oscar b ,tler. n boy
bnt seventeen wears Of aye, in charge Of
eleven h-i,d Of stolen horses. H. had
been there for several days. waiting for
D itch G ore and was entirely ont of
provisions. II was arrested. and YES