Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-14
D~ESPERADOEs.
Terrible Fight With the Montgomery
Brothers, Resulting in the Seri-
OusIy WOundlng and Cap.
ture Of Both.

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
CORNING, ARK, May IL. The
sheriff of this county, Mr.. j. A. Nc
Neil, last evening organized a posse
here, consisting of his deputy, Mr.. w.
w. West, the city marshal, DIR. Lew
ter, and eve private citizens, among
them Mr.. James NJ. Stevens, one of
our prominent merchants, and went
out in pursuit of two outlaws, COM
monty known as the Montgomery
brothers, the most notorious despera-
does in this county.
The sheriff had private information
that they were staying-that is, eating,
for they slept in the bush-at the,
house of a man named j. d. Slayter
a brother-in-law of theirs, who lives
about FIVE miles west of this city.
They surrounded the house and two
or three of the party entered, but the
birds were not there. They had fitted
to their woodland bed,a few minutes
before the sheriff and his men made
their visit. Nothing discouraged by
their failure to find their men, Sheriff
Mcneil and his posse returned to a
neighbOring barn, about a mile from
the place, and lay down to sleep, watch
and wait.
AT early dawn they were again on
the move, scattering their forces, and
once more surrounded the Slayter
house. They did not have long to
watch or wait. One of the party, Mr..
Stephens, got so close to the game that
he saw them get out of their bed and
dress themselves, laughing heartily
during the operation, seemingly as
happy as CLANS. The sheriff about
the same time spied too from the rear,
and moved in the enemy so close that
he placed the muzzle of his navy to
the back of one of them, Bud BY
name, and told him to throw up his
hands, throw down his pistols and
surrender, or he was a dead man.
Buds brother Milt heard the chal-
lenge, and found himself at the same
time confronted by a double barreled
shotgun in the hands of a daring and
intrepid youth named Bridges, and
Mr.. Stephens also going for him in an
other direction. He saw at onee that
he was hemmed in, and that escape
was impossible, but the desperation
that sometimes nerves such men came
to his aid, and, although MIR. Steph-
ems called loudly upon him TO surren-
der, his response was shot after shot
until four of the chambers of his re-
volver were empty, The shots we're
directly aimed at Mr.. Stephens, but
he escaped unscathed, and Mr.. Bridges
ended the fusilade by putting a couple
of charges Of buckshot into the ras-
calls carcass. He now lies at the
point Of death, his body being literally
perforated with the little leaden pei
lets.
His brother Bud was manacled and
brought to town, and will be taken to
Jail to Raydsville by the sheriff to-
morrow.
These fellows are supposed to be the
murderers of Elias Henson, who was
taken out of widow Meek's house, and
shot to death in a most brutal manner
a few weeks ago. They are also
strongly suspected of completely in the
murder and robbery committed at the
Hendricks place, Butler county, Mo,
about three weeks since, and are al
legged to be the principals in the rob
berry of the Southern Express Com
pany at this place three or four years
ago. They escaped justice in the lat
ter case by the rather sudden death of
Mr.. Jas. H. Carpenter, the agent Of
the company here.
Too much praise cannot be awarded
to Sheriff Mcneil for the persistent
and successful efforts that he is max
ing to rid this community of the band
Of scoundrels that for the past few
years have disgraced its people, and
set law at defiance.