Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-17
THE RETURN TO JAIL.
Spanish Abe" and Frank Hoppin
Brought Back,

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O'Clock and two or three hundred persons
rushed from Main street to the entrance of
the County Jail to see officers J. b. Simp-
son E" Big Sim ~ of Eureka and AL Muck
their horses and hurry Spanish Abe and
and Frank Hoppin into the cooler"
The officers and prisoners were each horse
back. The party had arrived and the
prisoners had been slowed away behind the
bars before the crowd knew what was up.
except that something unusual had taken
place. The two officers and their brace OF
horse thieves looked like so many soldiers
after a forced march of a fortnight
BRoNZED AND BATTERED.
1t will beremembered that Saturday night,
October A, Abe, Hoppin and Bart Hines
made their escape from jail. A number
Of officers deputized by Sheriff Sweeney
went in every direction in pursuit. Hear
ing that the two first named had got horses
at Buzzeti's ranch, officer Simpson rode
out there and went thence accompanied by
Mr.. Buzzettls partner, on track Of the
fugitive thieves, around to the Willows
three miles north of town. He heard
there that two men on horseback had passed
at l O'Clock Sunday morning, four hours
ahead of him. He went on in pursuit,
losing and finding their tracks, to McMen-
omie's ranch in Newark Valley, reaching
there at 10 o'clock Sunday morning.
There he was Joined in the pursuit by
Roddie McMenomie and John Whitaker,
| uho infornoad him that tho thiauaa had
driven off twelve of Mr.. McMenomie's
horses, among them four of the finest sad
die horses in the State. Officers Kaye and
Matter were at the ranch and got off the
track some hours in the chase. Officer
Simpson and party kept the track
as well as they could. Mon
day night found him in Cherry Greek.
Thence at 10 O'Clock Tuesday morning
he and Officer Nuckols started out with
fresh horses for Schellbourne, the tracks
Of Abe and Hoppin, lost for a while,
having been picked up again, and reach
there at noon Monday. The Italian, Mr..
Buzzetti's partner, had returned to Eu-
reka with the horses stolen from his
milk ranch, which horses the thieves had
turned loose ON the route, and Mr.. Nc
Mennonite and Mr.. Whitaker had got
separated from big Sim" while they
were after the lost trail. AT Schell-
bourne, 10 miles from Cherry Greek,
Sim and Nuckols learned that their men
had passed at IL o'clock Sunday night.
The fugitives had travelled without stop,
except for a half hour or SO, and had made
ONE n THIRTEEN MILES IN "a
HOURS.
They got a loaf of bread at Charley
Green's ranch in Steptoe Valley. They
picked up a lunch that had been lost
On the road afterwards, but did not get
a meal until they reached Henroid's
ranch in Pleasant Valley. When Officers
Simpson and Nuckols reached there Abe
and Hoppin were % hours ahead of
them. At 4 O'Clock Thursday morning
the officers reached the sink Of the Sc
vier river in Utah. Their horses were
played out and thence they had to go IL
miles on a dead X wagon furnished by
Farmer Taft to Deseret, a small settle
ment on the Utah Southern railroad.
They had pressed so hard on the thieves
that when they arrived in Deseret the
thieves were only a few miles out, but
they did not know it. They, the officers,
went 80 miles to Fillmore, the Oldest set
Element in Utah. in a wagon furnished by
Mr.. Webb. They were off the scent and
had to come back to Deseret. Hearing
of the fugitives on their return they
struck out at once for Cedar Springs,
a lovely little town also 80 miles away.
Red apples on q thousand trees and
REAL OAK TREES WITH o. on THEM.
Mr.. Simpson and Mr.. Nuckols, accom-
panied by three farmers, Mr.. Nickson,
Mr.. Webb and Mr.. Chopper, hunted around
the country and got on the track of the
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Two of the farmers named were in the
wagon with Mr. Nuckols, while Mr.. Simp-
son and the other went after their game
on horseback. They used some strategy
and came close up onto them, when Sim,
who had gotten within 20 yards of Abe,
said: "Hello, here / am" Abraham
answered: az guess I'm here, too" Abe
and Frank were searched but no arms
found on them except a butcher knife. On
the return to Desert Messrs. McMenomie,
Natter, Kaye and Whitaker were found
to have arrived at that point, thence Mr..
Kaye has returned by rail. The other
gentlemen are on their way here now on
horseback.
TREATED WELL
Mr.. Simpson and Mr.. Nuckols speak in
the highest terms Of the manner in which
they were treated by the people OF Utah
wherever they travelled and needed aid,
and they make especial reference to those
gentlemen named above.
DESERVING A HANDSOME CONDENSATION.
As to Mr.. Simpson and Mr.. Nuckols we
feel bound to say, what everybody thinks,
that they deserve the greatest credit for
the untiring energy and pluck they dis
played. They travelled night and day,
~sleepless, hungry, and worn to the bone,
in the determination never to let up until
they had captured the escaped rogues.
They underwent such hardships as but
few other men could HAYS endured and
come out alive. 1t was, also, not a labor
Of love in any sense of the word, making
from 60 to 100 miles a day oil horseback.
1t was a hard, tough job in the
service OF the public, and a matter in
which they had no personal interest. 1t
was, further, a very expensive trip to them
both. It cost 'Sim" alone 5000 for board
and lodging, for horse feed, and for pay to
men who helped them in the hunt for the
Jail. breakers. Men of their nerve and use
fulness ought not to be put off with empty
thanks or a pittance for their services.
THEY SHOULD BE