The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-05-29
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MURDERED BY 4 ROAD AGENT,
DRIVER SHOT ON HIS SEAT -Es.
CAPE OF THE MURDERER
AND TINE PURSUIT.

CAPE OF THE MURDERER
AND TINE PURSUIT.
Last Saturday night, the o.nd inst
while the mail wagon was going up from
Melrose to Glendale, at about s o'clock,
cold. FLOODED murder was enacted which
is perhaps without parallel in the history
OF Montana, not excepting the days Of ter
rer when the road agents were wiped ou'
by the Vigilantes. At the crossing d
Trapper Creek, a..nan suddenly appeared
in front Of the team, with a shotgun in his
hands, and commanded the driver, George
Ferguson, to stop. The command not be-
ing instantly obeyed, the man shouted
"Stop, you s. If a b-h," and immediate.
~ discharged one barrel Of his shotgun at
the driver. At short range the buckshot
took deadly effect and Young Ferguson
fell forward onto the double.trees Of the
wagon, from which position he was taken
by Thos. 5. Merchant, commercial
traveller, who was enc Of the six passen.
gers on the spring wagon at the time Of
HE tragedy. The crack Of the gun fright.
ened the horses and they ran away for
mile or so up tile road before they could
be stopped. Ferguson never spoke after
receiving the fatal charge Of buckshot in
his forehead and face, and breathed his last
In few minutes after his arrival at Glen.
dale.
The Glendale community was immedi.
ately aroused, and preparations for the pur.
suit Of the murderer were quickly made. A
large posse OF armed men were soon at the
scene Of the murder, and in pursuing the
man. secured the country from Trapper
Creek 10 Birch Greek. Sheriff Jones, re-
ceiving dispatch, proceeded to the Birch
Creek section with posse to intercept the
murderer should he try to escape that way.
On Sunday, three boys, engaged in driv.
ing horses, saw two men in Frying Pan
Basin, about eight miles from Birch Creek,
with two horses picketed and the saddles
laying on the ground near by. The Two
men are described as follows: One a tall,
slim man, light mustache, black coat, and
blue overalls; the other man was medium.
sized, compact built, and dark complex.
Toned. The two horses were afterward
captured and brought into Dillon and !
proved 70 be the horses stolen from Dow. |
enspeck 4 Eustis, butchers in Butte. The
pursuit was kept up by large force Of
armed men in the mountains northeast Of
Argenta. Two men answering the above
description stopped At the log cabin on
Cat Creek-eight miles from Frying Pan
Basin-over night. These men got bread
and bacon at that cabin next morning and
left, taking to the woods. Parties are still
on the search, and the range Of mountains
from Bannack to Dewey's Flat will be
thoroughly gone over. The description Of
the men is nleagre, which will make their
identification uncertain.
Liberal rewards, amounting in the az.
gtegate to $500, have been offered for the |
apprehension Of the perpe.rator Of the
murder. Young Ferguson was buried at
Glendale, where ne has lived for number |
Of years. On the scene OF the murdef a |
double.barreled shotgun was found with |
one barrel discharged, four face masks and |
a handkerchief, and the presumption is |
that mere than one man made the attempt
to rob the mail wagon.
LATEsT.-The Butte Inter. Mouat.sia, Of ]
the 27th, contains an account Of the cap. |
ture, by Sheriff Sullivan and Deputy
Conway, of two men answering the de.
scription Of the two men seen in Frying |
Pan Basin and at the log cabin on Cat !
Creek. The two men were tracked to |
Point Of Rocks, Twin Bridges, through the |
Pipestonc Pass and on to Blacktail, where |
they were captured and lodged in the |
Butte jail. Sheriff Jones went up to Butte |
10 help 10 identify the men from the de.
scriptions obtained by parties who saw the |
men with the horses and At the log cabin !
on Cat Creek.
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