Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-04-06

ment-but he Is still at large. Some of
his companions were not so fortunate.
Campbell, who sent back o letter to the
deputies, was followed into the icon.
lees" ordered to throwsup his hands,
and failing to do so with the prompti-
tude desired, fell dead with fifteen bull.
lets in his body.
futile, who was shot through the left
elbow in the fight, was abandoned by
his companions, and went into Spear.
fish, where he asked to be taken into
the county hospital for treatment. He
was admitted and treated. On the
night of the 18th ult. eight masked men
went to the hospital. Half the party
were posted outside. The other half
entered the sick ward, where there was
only one nurse. They seized futile,
gagged him, and carried him of with
out any clothing except an uudershirt.
The night was very cold. They stopped
on a cliff short distance away. They
gave him either short shritt or none
at all. A rope was fastened to q tree
overhanging the precipice. A moose
was hastily put around his neck, and
be was pushed over the brink. One of
bis legs was broken in the fall, but his
neck was not broken, and he was
Chok ed TO Death,
An inquest was held, and the remains
of the outlaw were buried at SpearfiSh.
The general sentiment is against the
lyncbipg, because futile was bound to
die of his wounds. futile is the man
whose shot is believed to have killed
Deputy Marshal John O'Hara in the
Gnh - frta Ia -
bly, eXasperated.
The cowboys, too, who saw two in.
nocent men suddenly shot down with
out having given the slightest provoca.
ton, were reused to white heat by the
killing of Gum n b I'm. Efforts have
been made to discover who were the
perpetrators OF the crime, but they have
not been successful, and no arrests have
been made. There is theory thst
neither the friends of the murdered
O'Hara nor the cowboys composed the
ig.lant party. 1t is believed by some
that futile was lynched by some Of
Ashby's own gang to prevent his max.
ing any disclosures. Pruden was safely
taken to Deadwood and imprisoned
there. He has been examined by the
Court, which ordered his release, and
he is free once more. So that several
men have been killed and wounded
really to no purpose.
Before the Stoneville fight several
efforts were made to capture Ashby.
1t is said that party Of four, not very
long ago, went to arrest the desperate.
Ston eville seems to be his social head
quarters. Thither they wended their
way. Ashby was in a saloon there
when they arrived. They posted one
man outside the door and the others
entered. AS they passed the threshold
a small young man passed between
them. One of them asked him If he
knew Ashby. He answered that he
did. They asked him il Ashby was in
The bolse. He shook his head and
passed out. After examining the other
occupants of the h.use, the deputies
turned to go out. AS they were lesv.
ing, one Of the men in house said, point
ng to the slight youth, who was now
about hundred yards away, mounted
IN a gooi horse, with Winchester
rifle resting in the hollow OF his arm:
"There's Ashby. Ifyou want him why
II don't you take him?"
The deputies started in pursuit, but
Ashhy got away in the darkness.