Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-19
MURDEROUS DOINGS:
A FIGHT WITH COWBOYS.
AN EX-MAYOR AND GAMBLER KILLED.
\ CAST OF GUITEAU'S HEAD.

The Daily budget Of Crime and Calamity.
In Caldwell, Kan OH Friday night and
Saturday morning party OF cowboys,
named respectively Sherman, alias Talbot,
Jim Martin, Bob Munsing and Bob Big
tree, with George Sharpe and 4 man
named Lowe, were drinking. At about
o'clock in the morning they began to raise
a row, and as 4 preliminary George Speer
shot off his revolver into the sidewalk on
the main street. Through the efforts Of
the police they were stopped and as pre-
caution additional police were put on.
among them Michael Meagher. About l
o'clock the cowboys began to shoot indis
criminately. Talbot shot Meagher from
the rear of bank building, killing him
instantly. The citizens turned out and at
tempted to take the party, who in the
meantime had proceeded to livery stable,
compelled the man in charge to give them
horses and mounted and started Oft.
Speer attempted to saddle horse near the
Red Light dance house and while doing SO
was shot. The others struck off in the di-
rcction of lIunnewell and about two miles
| east went south for the Indian territory.
Citizens started after them. Jim Talbot,
who shot Meagher, was one of the leaders
OF the element who wanted to hang Dan
ford without giving him an opportunity to
settle and was one of the leaders
of the party who took Danford
from the sheriff at Wellington. Dave
Speer belonged to the Speer family OF
Caldwell, who are engaged in the liquor
business lie is 4 desperate character.
| Later Accounts.
According to late reports On Saturday
night Talbot and his party were corralled
in the brakes of Deer creek, 12 miles
south Of Caldwell. The cow boys
had been SO closely pursued that
VIXEN they got to Deer creek they had
to dismount and take to the brakes,
where they concealed themselves. The
pursuing party numbered eight men, but
they surrounded the ruftians as vel. as
they could and kept up firing upon them
until about dark, when w. g. Campbell,
one Of the pursuers, received q shot which
struck him above the groin. glanced and
went through his wrist. This distracted
the attention Of the citizens, and it seems
that during this time the cowboys crawled
out and escaped. At daylight it was
found that they We're gone. BY that time
there were so men on the gOund, all we'll
armed. Details were sent out and the
| CouUtIy SCOuTcu. bUL uO lCpOII HdS COiAC
in. Captain J. NJ. Steele, of Wichita,
brother-in-law of Mike Meaghcr, one of
tue men killed, went down and is still
after the ruflians with about fifteen men.
The cowboys are on foot and without hats
having lost them in the chase. One of
them is known to be wounded in the
ankle.
The streets have been full oc people all
day yesterday and there seems to he 4 de-
termination to clean ont not only the par
ties who instigatcd the row, but those who
conscrt with them. The coroner is now
holding an inquest ever Measher, which
will probably last until some time today,
when tile inquest on George Speer will
probably commence. Spccr was one OF
the friends Of G. Flat, who was killed last
year while Meagher was mayor of the city.
1t is stated that the Speer family, of whom
there arc three left, got up the row to
have Meaghcr killed, having had a spite
against him since the killing of Flat. Four
persons. namely, Tom Lorcc, Dick Eddie
man, Tom Dulancy and Comanche Bill,
charged with completely in the row of
Saturday, arc under arrest. The sheriff
will probably try to take them to Yelling,
ton, but whether the people viii! allow him
to is doubtful.