Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-17

Gale Hill shot through the sides
Captain Smith rendered inseLable,
the ball that killed Camp
bell having struck the latter inSthe forehead,
but not hard enough to make dangerous
wound, as he recovered before the fight was
over. Scott Davis sprang out of the coach
on the opposite side, taking shelter behind
some trees. Here he defended himself
short time, but the robbers fire was too
warm, and he was compelled to move fur
Their into the brush. Here he saw that
saes-@,As--= IT WAS AL OVER
with Hill and Smith as far as fighting went,
al one of the robbers had the driver in front
Of him, and, marching him up to Davis, he
made him surrender, and Immediately bound
both. Hill fell where he had been fighting.
He had received another ball through his
arm. This, with tho wound in his side,
bleeding profusely, had weakened h1m 80 that
he was unable to resist. Hill was LETT at the
station while the robbers blindfolded smith
and the driver, put them in the coach ana
drove down the road about mile, wnen
they were taken out and tied to the wheels
of the coach. The robbers were now ready
for their work. The safe, which weighs
about 600 pounds, strapped with heavy iron
bands to the floor of the coach, was
torn from it's fastenings and thrown to the
ground, when they commenced pounding
the door with sledges. They soon forced
the door and the bricks, dust, and Jeweiry
were theirs. The men told Smith and the
driver that they would stop at the mix
ranch some distance below and
SEND SOME ONE TO RELEASE THEM.
Before the relief arrived, however, the driver
succeeded in releasing himself and then
Smith, who was nearly dead from sutfoca-
ton, as the men had gagged and bound him
so tightly that he could breathe only with dli-
ficulty. Scott Davis, who escaped in the
woods during the fight, walked six miles to
Beaver Greek, where he found horse and
| continued on his way to the Stockade. Meet
ing with Boone May, they at once organized
q strong party and started for the
station to capture the thieves II
possible. Of course they arrived
too late to save the treasure, for the men
had been gone several hours. Campbells
BODY was taken to Deadwood, where it was
buried by the Masonic order. Hill was taken
to Deadwood Saturday, and kilograms state
that the chances of his recovery are very
slim, as he has lost so much blood. Upon
examination it was found that Campbell
had three balls in his legs and one through
his body, besides the one through his head,
which caused his death. The report OF this
affair spread like wild fire, and before noon
the following day.
THE v1a11ANTs OF DEADwooD
were securing the country, accompanied by
a large force of deputy United States mar
| shals and agents. The result of their scout
so far is two arrests. Jon n. Brown was ar
rested on Saturday near Canon Springs by
one of the deputies. He has been regarded
| for long time as hard character, and
| when arrested acknowledged thatshe is the one
| that shot Daniel Finn, on July 2, at Lance
creek. Finn returned the fire, making only
a flesh wound in Browns breast. AS soon
as he was arrested he was bound and started
for Cheyenne under guard, reaching here
yesterday, when he was placed in close con-
fnement in the county Jail. The sec
ond stagent'' captured is said to be Q. II.
Burroughs. Why he did not come to Chey-
enne is still unexplained. letter to the
United States marshal here says: 81 have
another of the robbers under arrest here
and will send him down on the next coach
if we are not compelled to kill him on &C
count of an effort to escape" The driver of
the coach told the same story, but gave sly
wink and waved his hand in the air, as much
as to say,
| f'HE's SWINGING"
The stage company offer reward of
$4,000 for their capture and the return of
the gold. Ever since the line was started
the company have had everything to contend
with, the worst of all the robbers, and it
certainly is to their credit the way they have
| fought them.