The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-10
EXAMINATION OF ROAD AGENTS.
THEY WAIVE EXAMINATION AND AXE
HELD IN $4,000 EACH TO ANSWER
TO NEXT u. 8. GRAND JuRr.
aMike" identified NJ an Ex-Csnstct.

Geo. L. sey bolt, Esq. Mail Inspector Tor
Utah. Idaho and Montana, arrived lsst En-
day to participate In the prosecution Of tine
| three road agents captured last week. IL was
concluded to bring the action against them
| for robbing the q s. mails, and the preiimi-
nary exami nation was therefore called before
o. B. O'Bannon, Esq q. 8. Commissioner,
and q. 8. District Attorney Dewitt appeared
for the prosecution
| Complaint was fled against Frederick
Wiley, Thomas Sheldon and Marion Gamble
by Deputy Sheriff McTague, for robbing the
| u. 9. mails. The defendants were brought
into Court by Deputy Marshal Botkin, the
complaint read to them and the prisoners
duly arraigned Upon their statement that
they were without counsel or the means OF
1 obtaining counsel, ii 4. Whitehili, Esq, was
appointed by the Court to conduct the Do
| Tense, and defendants entered plea OF NOT
| guilty. BY agreement of counsel the exam
| ination was continued and subpnnas issued
for Thomas McTague, George Davey, VIII
liam Lamson, Richard Riddle, 8. p. Haus-
child. Joseph Roberts, William Steele, e. 8.
Stackpole. Myron A. Lockwood, g. M.
Pennoysr, w. j. Ross, ID. j. Norton, Jr., and
William Bishop on the part of the United
States.
US. District Attorney Dewitt had the
prisoners arraigned under Sec. 5472 Revised
Statutes of the U. s., which is ~ follows:
Sec. 5472 ANY person who shall rob any
carrier, agent or other person intrusted with
the mail, of such mail, or any part thereof,
shall be punishable by imprisonment at hard
labor for not less than five years and not
more than ten years: and If convicted sec
ond time of like offrnse, or it, in effecting
such robbery the first time, the roboer shall
wound the person hauing custody Of tte mail, or
| pat his life in jeopardy by the use Of dangerous
| icedpons, such offender shall be punishable By
Imprisonment at hard labor for the term Of has
natural life.
The penalty, it will be noticed Is not only
very heavy but absolute. If found guilty the
sentence must be for life This Is aseverer
penalty than provided by the Montana Stat
| utes for robbery, and beside their prosecution
by the United States will save the county
and Territory the large expense Of trial and
punishment
On court being called Monday morning,
Mr.. Whitehill, counsel for defendants waived
examination, whereupon Ii was ordered that
they be admitted to bail in the sum Of $4,000
each for their appearance on the first day of
the December term of court in Deer Lodge
for trial The recognizance of the several
witnesses was TAX en- for $500 each to appear
at the same time.
On motion of the q. s. Attorney 1t
was ordered that the q. s. Marshal
for Montana take possession of the following
described property alleged to have been
found upon and taken from defendants at the
time of their arrest, and now in the posses
sion of the Sheriff of Lewis and Clarke
county, viz: A sum of money, two horses
and one wagon, one set of double harness, =
cooking and camping outfit, threa finger
rings, one watch chain, two Henry rifles,
revolvers, ammunition, and all other proper
ty taken from defendants. Whereupon court
adjourned sine die
Marion Gamble who has some notoriety as
Mike" and who did the genial and Ell
cient" business when the trio held up the
.tage, turns out to be "A old resident He
has been identified positively by Hugh
O'Neil, George Root, s. p. Hauschild, and
Mvron Lockwood, but not formally, as Frank
Adams, who was convicted of grand larceny
at the spring term Of court, 1882, in Gallatin
county, and sentenced to one year In the
Territorial prison. On the 2ist of the fol-
lowing August, while guard A. NJ. Smith was
working Adams with other prisoners on the
corner of ID and Fourth streets, Adams
dropped his load of lumber, snatched the re-
volver from the guard, made him give up his
extra cartridges, and with one Of his COM
panions skipped the trolley" Mike, alias
Gamble, dl,as Adams, IL described on the
prison records rs a native of Texas, weight
1868 pounds, height feet 81 inches, dark hair,
blue eyes, fair complexion, aud few black
noles on body"
The other two prisoners claim to DO from
Wisconsin, but We doubt If any tf them give
their true names or nativity. They appear
happy and very we'll satisfied with their quar-
tiers, and say they arc good honest boys I'M
fortunately mistaken for the vile wretches
who robbed the coach, and expect to take up
ranches in this vicinity when the present
foul aspersions on their character are re-
moved, etc. As a matter of fact there Is no
question whatever that they are the identical
men who robbed the coach in such excellent
style and then gave themselves completely
away in their escape and got picked up like
schoolboys on the road Opinion Is divided
a. to whether they are the parties who COM
mitted either of the former stage robberies or
not 1t appears more than likely they are
the same ones who "pulled" the coach
Mccormick was on.
With all their eontented words and actions
Sheriff McMaster Is skeptical enough to be-
lieve that they would prefer some other To-
cality at present and positively keeps them
under lock and key, with one guard by day
and two at night. 1t Is quite likely they will
remain with him until December.