The Fremont County record., 1881-06-11
MASKED MEN.
Migrants, Thieves and fire-Bugs
Take Warning.
Three Suspected Parties Taken From
The CalaboOse and Driven Out
OF Town.

After the fire of Monday morning
our citizens and officers became thor
oughly aroused to the importance of
getting rid of the vagrants and sup
posed thieves who have been lying
around town for several weeks. Be-
sides the $500 reward offered a waiter
at the Boyd house, named WIN. Quinn
was arrested on suspicion as well as
one John Stevens aud Il colore,i
woman named Mrs. Benton, who
| kept low dive on the corner OF Main
street where it intercrpts the Soutl,
| Canon road. These three We're lock-
ed up in the city Jail ON Monday, but
on Tuesday Stevens was turned out.
/ There are Two others suspected to
belong to the gang, Jas. Reddy, now
in the county Jail on a charge of
adultery and Clifford Henderson in
the same place on a charge of burg
larry aud larceny. Henderson is the
fellow who broke into Mr.. Loughery's
saloon and stole large number of
cigars. On Tuesday Mr.. Campbell
received two postal cards, both adj
dressed to the mayor OF Canon City.
The first one read as follows:
''If you do not let our men out of
the Jail VIC will BURN your town.
GANG"
The second one thus
''you can watch for a fire very soon
don't party with us GANG
those men you have ar inoscnt."
The writing was in the same hand
the only difference being that the
words IN the former were spelled
correctly while in the latter they
were not. This writing was COM
~ IN fAf m nd ay.r n,.fe
in such matters were led to believe
| that he was the author of the threats.
The three men referred 10 were evil
IDENTIFY Reddy, Quinn and Henderson.
| Upon this evidence Stevens was again
locked up in the salahoose OH Tues
day evening. y large number of our
citizens armed themselves on Tues
day night and 4 careful watch of the
streets was kept until daylight on
Wednesday. On that day nothing
particular was developed aud tlic
town breathed easier that night
knowing that the suspected parties
were under lock and Key. The end
was not yet, however, for about the
hour OF midnight on "Wednesday
masked men might have been seen
/ gathering around the city Jail unit!
/ twelve or fourteen were there MAIN
NtAilllAis- ah -AoOub
| this time q hole was made just 10
| the right of the door of that builtt-
| ing. Whether the work was done
! from the outside or inside cannot
now be known. This was gradually
| enlarged until man was seen 10
creep out of it, said to have been
Stevens, and AZ soon as he was fairly
out he was pounced upon by some ut
the watchers aud hurried off down
the street. The door was then quiet
ly unlocked aud the two other pris-
oners taken out. They were h;isteu-
ed of down the big ditch to-
wards the Old adobe house which
was recently occupied by notorious
characters, aud somewhere in that
vicinity were told to skip, their flight
being fastened by a number Of re-
Nolyer shots. When Thursday morn.
ing came the calaboose door was
found to be locked, the hole was
through the wall and the prisoners
were gone. No ono knows who help
cd them escape nor do they care ex-
cept that they are gone and probably
will not return, for the atmosphere
hercabouts would be very unhealthy
for them. Our citizens are deter
mined to clean these fellows out aud
the next gang will not fare half as
welt