The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-03
LIVELY TIMES,
ARREST OF JACK DUNN,
AS an Accomplish of Clifford In the
Robbery of Sergeant Boiling
Twenty Infatuated Men
Try to Hang
Him.
Him.

To the robbery of Sergeant Boiling,
of Fort Russell, which took place at an
early hour yesterday morning, was
added last night another startling &C.
currence, the details of which are as
follows:
Sheriff Draper and other officers of
the law were busily engaged during the
day, not only in e~ndeavoring to ferret
out the whereabouts Of Clifford, but in
looking after parties suspected of
being his accomplices in the robbery.
Suspicion fell upon Jack Dunn, who
is employed as a barkeeper in Chase's
theatre. Dunn is well known here
abouts as AN attache of the variety
theatres, whose business 1t Is to do odd
jobs and make himself generally use
full. Sheriff Draper went to Chase's
establishment about 1880 o'clock,
| placed Dunn under arrest, and walked
along leisurely with him in the direc-
ton of the court house. 1t was his in
tention to lodge the accused quietly in
jail, and nothing occurred to arouse his
suspicious until he turned the Carey
block corner, and started north on
Ferguson street. At this point he OBJ
served at least twenty men rapidly
oyertaking him. They shouted: LET
us have him!'' I'VE want Jack
Dumb HES got to tell us where
Clifford isl'' snake him stretch hemplp
etc. Sheriff Draper hurried along
with the prisoner as rapidly as possible,
the Infatuated men gaining upon him
at every step. BY the time he had
reached Horrie's lumber yard, the
crowd divided into two parties. One
section, by a preconcerted movement,
instantaneously seized the sheriff,
while the other squad grabbed Dunn,
and proceeded to form a hangman's
moose on the end of a stout rope which
they carried. The other end was
thrown over IIorrie's sign, which is
erected above the sidewalk, and the I'M
fortunate ''Jack'' Dunn was then
questioned as to his completely in the
robbery of Sergeant Boiling, as well as
his knowledge of the whereabouts of
Harry Clifford. Dunn persisted that
he was innocent of the entire ~transac-
ton, and plead ~piteously for his life.
The men pulled on the rope, and Dunn
shot up into the air like a rocket. He
was let down again, and ordered to tell
where they would be able to find Cliff
ford. He persisted that he had no idea
where that party was-he hadn't seen
him since Thursday night, several
hours before the garroting of Boiling
took place.
"That's too thinl'' 1--WE know bet
ter, you scoundrelln and other %ejacula-
tions of like character escaped from
their lips, and Dunn was again made
to play checkers with his nose up and
down the hempen instrument of death.
This time he was choked quite severe
ly, and was scarcely able to speak
when lowered again to terra firma.
The pumping process was again resort
ed to, accompanied by savage threats.
They had their labor for their pains, as
"Jack" Dunn still protested his inno-
cence. Once more did they resort to
violence, and Dunn was again suspend
ed between heaven and earth. How
long his prosecutors would have allowed
him to hang, is difficult to deter
mine. Sheriff Draper, who got away
from his captors at an early stage of
the affair, and went for assistance, ap-
peared upon the stage of action, well
armed and accompanied by several
other armed men, among whom were
| Constable Talbot, Officer Thomason,
Justice T. NJ. Fisher and I. Joe Fish
er. The prosecutors of Dunn, finding
that he was on the point of being res
cued, opened fire with r~evolvers on the
sheriff and his party. The shots We're
promptly returned. and the men who
were engaged in hanging Dunn, finding
1t uncomfortably warm, fled as rapidly
as their legs could carry them. Sew
eral shots were fired after them, none
Of which are believed to have taken eff
feet. Dunn dropped to the sidewalk
when the men dropped the rope and
fled. He was taken to the sheriff's Of
fee, thence to a cell. A LEADER re-
porter engaged Dunn in conversation
about the transaction. Dunn insists
that he knows nothing about the rob-
berry, and had no hand in it. He says
all the men who attacked him were
clad in citizens attire. He knows who
some of them are, but refused to re-
veal their names. Dunn is well known
in Cheyenne, having lived here for
three Dr. four years past. He is the
same man who was accused of attempt
ing suicide by taking morphine about a
year ago, and is the party shot recently,
by Jacob Thurman, during a fracas,
and severely wounded. His case On the
charge of robbery will probably come
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