The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-11

Bates, of Denver, made the best run,
but missed the coupling.
A BAD CROWD.
Two cenviets Sentenced TO Lie Inn
prisonment AT Auburn. n. N. b,
As No. A train pulled in from the
west yesterday, two men got off for
dinner who attracted a good deal Of
attention. They were attired in Cali
fornia drilling. and wore very heavy
jewelry on their ankles. Besides, their
faces bore evidence Of deprayed con-
sciences. Together with the officer in
charge they went into dinner. Specu-
lation was rife as TO the identity of the
men, and when they returned to the
car, several persons sought an interview
with the officer in charge, among them
the rowing commissioner of the
LEADER.
The gentleman, MI. Z. Z. Bondaist,
is deputy United States marshal for
Idaho, and his prisoners names are
William Mays and Henry Oyerholt.
They are under a life sentence to Au-
burn prison, N. Y, having been con-
victed of robbing the United States
mails near Boise City, last spring. At
the time the crime was committed
there were four In the party. They
held up the stage coach and went
through the passengers and the mail
bags. Soon afterwards a large pursuing
party was sent out. and they rounded
up the four road agents near the scene
Of the robbery. The latter were not
disposed to submit peacefully, and a
fight ensued, during which one of the
road agents was killed and several OF
the pursuing party injured. The three
remaining road agents kept up the
fight until they ran short of ammuni-
tion, when they surrendered and were
taken to Boise City.
Mays, who is a splendid specimen of
physical development, being very large,
and saturated with grit, succeeded in
breaking Jail. He was tracked to Ore
gon, where assistance was procured and
he was rounded up in a valley and sur
rendered. He bravely stood off his
pursuers for a long time, and sue
cumbed only when the forty-second shot
Of his captors disabled him. He was
heavily ironed at once and taken to
Boise City for trial.
Another member of the party man.
aged to escape and was never recap
tured.
Mays and Overholt were both tried
and convicted, and sentenced as stated
above.
Marshal Carr was at the depot yester-
day when. the train came In, and he
recognized in Mays an old Wyoming
offender. But he went by the name Of
Herman Lessner in 1874, at which time
Mr.. Carr was sheriff, and he arrested
Lessner on the charge of horse steal
ing. Lessner showed fight at the
time of his arrest, and Carr was
AoAScu W SohNcy III W jail uiucI
cover Of a revolver, from Tracey's cor
raj, where he was arrested. Lessner
got a short sentence, and served it out
at Laramie City. which improved his
morals so much that he quit horse steal
ing and went OIL the road to rob passen-
gers and the United States mails. He
is probably So years of age, and Over
holt is probably 25 or 26 years of age.
Col. G. A. Chase, the United States
marshal of Idaho, was also oil board
the train yesterday, but he occupied a
seat In the Pullman car with his wife,
trusting the care of his hardened pris-
oners to his deputy.
1t was a matter of remark that the
men were allowed extraordinary free.
dom, considering their desperate charac-
ter and the length of their sentence. The
only precautiCn taken to prevent their
escape was by Stacking them. They
were not even handcuffed, or fastened
to their seats. And they were permit
ted to sit near the real door, and keep
the windows open. The deputy merely
kept his seat across the aisle.
In contrast with this, our own sher-
ifs always shackle and handcuff and
fasten to their seats all convicts, even
If their term be only for six months.
Possibly the two convicts we saw
yesterday will be safely delivered at
Auburn prison, but it is probable that
they will not be, unless a more strict
discipline over them is maintained.
We should not be at all surprised to
learn of their escape any day. They
have three days more before arriving Mt
Auburn, and many opportunities for
escape will present themselves. If they
are the men they look to be they will
make a daring attempt to escape, for
they have nothing to lose ever if they
don't succeed, for they are already un-
der the most extreme sentence of i'm
prisonment that it is possible to impose
upon a human being.
A Jersey Stir Up
Quiet old Mt. Holly, N. j., has had
a stir up-unequalled in its magnitude
since Washington passed through on his
way to Monmouth. Mr.. Charles Sailer,
a leading citizen and President of the
Vincentown Mari Co., sent a dollar to
NJ. A. Dauphin, New York, and got