The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-20
From the Daily of Tuesday.
CHASE.

From the Daily Of Tuesday.
VALITON's CHASE.
Additional Particulars Of the Pur
suit of Hardness, Lobb
ana Warfeld.
A Bad Country for Horse Thieves
The following additional particu.
lars of the pursuit Of the three men
who lett Butte May 25th with one O
Owsley q Valiten's best teams, and
which resulted in the capture OF
Warield and the killing of Six.
Shooter Jack, are gathered from the
Wood River Times of the 18th inst.
the day previous to the capture, q
full account of which was published
In Sundays MINER:
This morning a cavalcade of fierce
looking men armed to the teeth and
accompanied by a wagon filled with
provisions, ammunition and extra
guns, carbines, cutlasses and revolt
vers, left the Sheriff g office for Camas
Prairie, going via Croy Gulch.
They were Sheriff Furey's posse
starting ia pursuit of q gang of horse
thieves which had been tracked from
Butte, Montana.
Some time since the Times pub
lished an acc ount of the stealing of q
span of valuable horses and a spring
wagon, valued at $500, from III. G.
Walton, by horse thieves on the road
from Butte, Montana. Since the theft
was discovered Sheriff Furey has
had the matter in charge, as Mr.. Vail
ton reported the robbery here. Tele-
grams were sent to Ogden, Shoshone
and BlackfOOt notifying the comfy
officials of the theft, and giving q
full description of the thieves and of
the property stolen. Mr.. Walton
then returned along the road from
HALEY toward Blackfoot, as the
thieves at last advices to that time
were travelling toward Wood River.
At Arco he was informed by the
stage station keeper that a party of
men had passed the station a few
days days previous, and the party
and stock answered the description
given. They had taken the road TO
Challis, and hither Mr., Walton
went.
At Challis he found one of lis
horses and the wagon, and learned
that the thieves had sold the stolen
property there and secured other
horses with the money realized. A
description of the horses they had
secured was obtained, and Mr.. Vail
ton returned here. Sheriff Furey
opened communication with various
parties along the line of the road to
Boise City, as the thieves were re-
ported as heading that way. It was
also learned that since the six thieves
had stolen the horses and wagon
they had separated often, and only
two travelled together most Of the
time, but every day Or two they
would meet together at some Prev
ously appointed rendezvous.
Yesterday Sheriff Furry received
the following letter:
WILLOW CREEK. on the Road
to Challis, June 10, '83.
G.. H. FUREY: Look out for Six
shooter Jack and Charles Warfield.
They passed here Friday on the road
to Arco, horseback; hiding chestnut
sorrel and bay horses, carrying large
rolls of blankets behind their saddles.
[ have sent to Blackfoot and Eagle
Rock. They sold the team and wag-
on at Challis. [ think that I will
get Harkness tonight. If [ do, [
will start for HALEY tomorrow morn
ing. Telegraph to Shoshone and
end of track. Six-shooter Jack car
ries two six-shooters. Do your best
to catch them. H. G.. WALTON.
Sheriff Furey subsequently re-
ceived a message informing him that
on the 18th 1.-The party, consisting Of
six desperate looking men, all doubly
armed with revolvers and rifles, were
camped on Willow creek and had
ten stolen horses in their possession
10 o'clock this morning the party
referred to above started in pursuit.
The posse is made up as follows:
E. E.. Cunningham, Deputy Sheriff
of Shoshone, captain of the squad;
Officer John P. Campbell, of the
sheriffs office. HALEY; d. G. McCur-
dy, H. G.. Walton, owner of the
stolen wagon, harness and team
from Butte; Major Mensch, H. G.
of Dyer 4 Son; H. Stevenson,
Al. Theriot, and Andy Loucks. q
vaquero and noted horseman. The
party includes some good material
for a hot fight, and if the thieves are
as they certainly must
be to-day, there is every probability
of a desperate fight or a complete
capture. The officers for $50 miles
around are on the trail, and if this
proves to be the party and sect
they should be dealt with without
any ceremony"
From the above it would appear |
that Lobb, darkness and Warfeld
had fallen in with kindred spirits
who had augmented their band and
that Hardness escaped capture by
aisposing of the wagon and one horse
1T ChalIis, and separating from the
gang, probably riding the other horse
Belonging to Owsley& Walton. The
thorough work already done by Mr..
and the officers who have |
given him such hearty cooperation
indicates that Hardness will not be
to evade capture very long.
ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE. !
Sheriff Irwin returned from Poca-
clio last night having in custody
Charley Warfield, who had a mar.
'ow escape from sharing the fate of
six-shooter Jack. He vas lying in
,ed with Jack and nearest to the
Sheriff7s posse when the yolley was
ired. One ball grazed his cheek and
passed under his body into
he bedding. Sheriff Irwin brought
With him a copy OF the Woou River
of the 10th inst, which con-
aims the following account of the
apture:
Arrived at the place designated,
Cunningham, McCurdy and
went afoot TO Grave creek.
bout one mile away, and discovered
he outlaws camp by moonlight, it
icing between II and IL o'clock at
hight. The outlaws we're in bed in
open air, in a small plot of ground
lalf surrounded by brush, on the
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