Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-06
raE BrAYERHEAD CATTLE cAsEs.
OF Ii Defendants Convicted at Dill
lon and ono Case NoIle Prosecuted.

Two OF the Defendants Convicted at Dill
Ion and Onc Case NoIle Prosequied.
w. Y. rton returned yesterday
from Dillon where he has been engrossed,
among other business. with the prosecu-
tion OF the cattle thieves, in which he
assisted District Attorney Smith. For o
long time past the cattlemen on Horse
Prairie have been the sufferers by these
depredations and the butcher firm OF PEN
dry q Sheibelhut atArgenta were suspected
OF having q share in the nefarious business.
They had a silent partner named Joe Jag
gers, a son OF Sam Jaggerss an old timer
living on Horse Prairie about twenty-five
miles from Argenta. Pendry, Sheibelhut
and Joe Jaggers were indicted together on
three indictments, which charged them
with Strengthening and selling stolen cattle.
There was evidence to show that the sew
eral animals which they were charged with
stealing had been seen in their corral
and the hides were afterwards recov-
cred by the Sheriff OF Beaverhead county
out oil the Beaverhead river, where they
had been taken and thrown in by the de-
PENDANTS after midnight during last winter.
The evidence was circumstantial but the
crime was brought home with sufficient
clearness to the minds OF a jury to convict
Pendry and Jaggers. The latter having
been born and brought upin that neighbor-
hood could not nave been ignorant OF the
ownership OF the animals slaughtered, and
the defendants made no effort to show o
they came into possession OF the animals,
whose owners identified them by their
brands and testified they had been stolen
from them. Twenty-Five hides a been
recovered by the Sheriff from their place OF
attempted concealment in Beaverheadi
river. Joseph Jaggers was acquitted on
one indictment last week, but when
placed on trial on the second
on Monday night, and he was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment. Pendry was
convicted ON the first Indictment q week
ago Saturday and sentenced to five years
imprisonment. A nolie prosequi wal en-
tered 10 Sheibelhut's case, as there was no
evidence to connect him with secreting the
hides. The same evidence al introduced
in each case, but the defendants we're in
dicted for stealing different animals. An
other OF the Jaggers family, James j aggers,
was tried last Friday for q similar offence
and the jury remained locked upuntil Mon
day morning, when they were discharged,
D6tUK uudUic 10 dSACCs - LIZ AUShoAS
Sam Jaggers, were arrested for cattle thefts
entirely distinct from those in which his
brother and Pendry were convicted, and
there are four or five indictments against
each of them remaining untried at this
term; one against Bob Boldly, two against
a man named Low, one against Scott Cleve.
land, q ~stepson of Jim Jaggers. and one
again<t Samuel Jaggers for kidnapping a
witness and spiriting him out OF the luris-
;diction of the court. These indictments
have broken up one OF the most extensive
cattle thieving organizations OF the West,
by which the cattIemen OF the southwest
portion OF the Territory have suffered for
years, the close proximity of the ranges to
the Idaho line facilitating such operations
materially. Messrs. Campbell & Duffy de-
Tended Pend1y and Joe Jaggers. James
Jaggers was defended by MIR. Stapleton, OF
Robinson and Stapleton, and Campbell &
Duffy.