Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-12
ROAD AGENTS.
They Stop q Bismarck Coach on
Christmas Morning and after Kill
ing Passenger They Make
Oft with the Booty.
Murder In Deadwsed-An Anray Ia q
saloon Resulss In b ProbAble
DEATH OF the vtcsin.
spcc,al Correspondence.

SPECTRAL correspondence.
Dead wood, D. T., Jan. s. lsso.-The
Bism arck stage line has recently had a rob-
berry on its highways, but until to day, have
et1ectually kept the affair from the public.
The robbery took place near Dogtooth
station on Christmas day. The exact num-
Der of road agents who participated in the
robbery We are unable to learn, but certain
it is there were enough Of them to get away
with the treasure. which is said to have
amounted to ten thousand dollss, besides the
killing offs passenger named Oates. 1t
seemed that the road agents, after having
secured their booty, ordered the driver to
60 on, then fred a volley into the rear Of
the coach, killing Mr.. Oates instantly.
There was only two passengers, and the
other one escaped unhur,. On the l4th Of
last October u coach was stopped on this
route, but nothing was found worth taking
and the road SCENTS departed, This your
correspondent knows, as he met the coach
two hours after and gained his information
from the passengers. The officers Of this
company are doing their utmost to conceal
this last affair, but it is no use in their try
ing any further as the following story told
by one Of the parties who furnished blankets
in which to wrap the murdered man Oates,
has been made public.
Mr.. Morefeld says ut was on the morn
ing Of the 25th Of December when we pulled
into Dogtooth station in a large sleigh, con-
tanning besides myself, Ben Andrews, a
gentleman from Sioux City; Mr.. Spellman,
brother Of Lieutenant Spellman, Of Fort
Meade, and the driver. After We had taken
breakfast and were about to proceed on our
journey, Mr.. Gidley. superintendent Of the
Bismarck transportation company, APP
preached us and said we would be compelled
to finch our trip in the coach, as he
wished to send the sleigh back for a
particular purpose, and al the same time re
quested some one to lend him q couple Of
blankets. loaned him a couple of b!an-
kets and asked him to what use he was go
ing to put them, but was answered in an
%evasivc manner, Gidley taking the blanket.
and walking into the ranch with them
The next step was to take all the hay out o.
the bottom of the coach and put it 10 the
sleigh. leaving US without a spear and ir
imminent danger of freezing our feet
When everything was ready the driver toli
US, just as We were leaving the place
that the coach we were il
had been "held up" by road agents on tn.
bad lands between Whitney Springs anc
Grand River, and that they had got away
with the treasure and
KILLED A PASSENGER
named Oates, and that Gidley had used the
blankets to wrap the corpse in, and that b.
had just helped to do it and to place tn.
body in the outgoing sleigh.
SHOOTING IN DEADwooD.
At four o'clock this afternoon a mar
named Colburn, who was under the infu
ence of liquor at the time was shot tvic.
through the abdomen by a bar keeper named
Woolsey. Colburn is dying and Woolsey
is in Jail. The ARRAY grew out of an ole
grudge. L. E. G.