Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-31
AN EXCITING CHASE.

Tnttle. with n Two Days start II
Overhauied by Toomey and Stew
art.
John futile, who was for some time
hostler for the Victorine Company at
Kingston Canyon, Lander County, came
over to Eureka recently, having in his
possession several horses and wagons
transferred to him by the company for his
services. He was to be seen frequently
driving up and down Main street in a
wagon drawn by a span of good American
horses, a buckskin and q bay. He kept
his stock at John Stewards uptown stable,
where, it seems, he had run up a consider
able bill, some $3.50. which he evidently
did not wish to liquidate. He was out
with his team Sunday, having a drive as
usual abont town, when Mr.. Stewart was
called away on business to Ruby Hill.
Taking advantage Of this opportunity to
skip out, he loaded his wagon with IS
much grain as he could carry conven-
iently and packed in a couple Of barley
sacks stuffed with hay, and left town Sun
day night. Mr.. Stewart did not find out
that he had gone until Monday morning.
and then he thought he had only
taken q trip to some place in the neighbor-
hood, but finding Monday night that he had
not returned to town, he made up his
mind that he had jumped the county.
Tuesday afternoon about 2 O'Clock he and
Joe Toomey got into a buggy and started
in pursuit. They drove without stop or
stay and reached the Willows, half way
between Eureka and Austin, Tuesday
pirht TNbara fhoVy Ioornal That tho Snan.
lard, futile, had passed by that place at
a very late hour Sunday night. He had
gone 10 miles beyond and stopped on the
road. At this point his horses, which he
had tied to the wagon with bailing rope,
got loose and ran away from him back to
the Willows. He followed them on foot
and caught them at the station, but they
had torn up the harness so badly that he
had to stay all day Monday at the Willows
to repair it. Monday night he struck out
to the wagon, leading his horses. Had not
this mishap befallen the fugitive he never
would have been'overtaken, for he lost a
full day and q half by it. Hitching up
again he drove to within seven miles of
Austin, when, turning off, he went south,
down into Smoky Valley. He travelled
rapidly, only stopping long enough at any
place to feed and partially
Iebb Ills bbOck. WeuueSudy ulSHt
he stopped at jefferson, whittier he had
gone out of his road to sell his team to a
man whom he was to meet there. He did
not find his man, however, and Thursday
morning he came back up to Watson's
ranch in order to get onto the main road
leading south in order to put the State of
Nevada at his back entirely. Here he
was encountered and was taken by John
Sfawarf md loo TppYnau vuhn bod ridIa
night and day without a single halt from
the time they left Eureka until that mo-
ment-Thursday noon. They made three
or four changes on the road, and of course
made splendid time, although had it not
been for the little Spaniard's horses get
ting loose he would have reached Arizona
q hundred miles ahead OF them. His
horses, though, were pretty well used up,
the buckskin being nearly played out.
Mr.. Stewart got home to Eureka last
night about 8 o'clock, having travelled
from Watson's ranch in Smoky Valley,
about 100 miles, between ~ o'clock noon
Thursday and that time. Joe Toomey
and Tuttle were left behind to
come in more leisurely with the Span
iard's tired horses. Stewart was almost
worn out, having been on the go three
nights aud three days without a minutes
rest or steep. His sleep last nlBht was
probably the sweetest he ever enjoyed in
his life. Tuttle offered no resistance when
o%vertakon, but this was because he was not
Had he been expecting to be
out as he was he would very prob
ably have been "heeled," and would not
have given up himself and his personal
property without a desperate struggle. So
he says, anyway. But being held now, 30
that there is no chance for him ever to
wriggle. he is willing to make fair terms,
and will turn over his horses and the
wagon to John Stewart for his livery bill,
only for enough coin to take him to
Austin. And so the matter will probably
settled.