Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-12-25
WAS sHAR Pr
A Man who Claims to Have
Seen Him In CaYaon.

| VINO IL TIC prosecuting WhuCo0
the Meadows case, claims to hav
seen Milton A. Sharp, the Escape
stage robber in this city " thin tn
month. Yesterday he was inter
viewed by the APPEAL and toll
the following story:
"a fewlweeks ago, the night afte
the Grand Jury indicted Meadows
was walking near the Orphan
Home about 8 o'clock, / shoulC
think, whom l suddenly met mar
walking up toward Main Street
l was not three feet from him when
1 looked up and saw bis face plainly
AS our eyes met, he turned his head
| to one side and started across the
street diagonally. For an instant
l did not know who it was, but his
desire to hide his face excited ny
suspicious.
II must have walked along about
five minutes, when it flashed across
nae that it was Sharp the stage
robbsr. 1t was him beyond .
doubt. l went Immediately to the
Shsrif's office and saw Mr.. Pine. /
told him l had seen Sharp in the
city. and if he would come With me
We would capture him.
"Hs said I must be drunk that
1t was impossible that Sharp was in
Carson, ~ it would be the last place
he would come. l then asked Pine
for his gan, saying that 1 would 70
myself and capture him.
"He refused to do 20, and having
no weapon did not hunt him any
further.
CHOW the sequel of the story 10
to come, and 1 think it corrobor-
ates my statement.
"Nsxt day I started for home
near Candelaria and heard 1t the
Williams ranch that the money that
Sharp was supposed to have buried
had been dag up . few days before.
1t appears that q man had been
there for a couple Of months trying
to find money Sharp buried, 40 he
claimed to know pretty near the
place. He had just quit the search
because he found tho tracks Of Z
man leading . horse, and 10 trailed
them to q place where hole had
been dug in the ground and he felt
satisfied that SHARP had returned
and gotten his COIN"
Yesterday the writer told Gall
sEhsr's story in the Wells-Farge
Office in this city, and in order to
lest . Gallaghsr's knowledge Of
Sharp's face they sent parties to |
With . photograph of
Sharp. Gao Of them. stepping up |
10 him, suddenly confronted hin
With tho picture, saying:
''Do you know Who that is7" At
,nce Gallagher answered:
"That's Ailt. Sharp, the stage
obber."
Mr.. William Cowen whs was
ormsrly in the employ Of the
Vslls-Fargo Company, says that he
.nows the ground whore Sharp sp-
rated. There is . little canyon
ear tho Williams ranch about
ftsen miles iron Aurora, whore
harp held up the stage seven
ines. 1t was here that Jenes,
harp's partner, vas killed BY Mike
ORGY in 1880. Cowan said: |,
elf Sharp buried money it would
. near this place. / feel - if
'allagher's story were true. He
'ould take the most desperate
hanses of any man living it would
. in keeping with his habits to
pine back to Carson, because it I
ould be about the last piece any
ne would look for him. When his
artner Jones WAS shot by tho shot
IN messenger he came back and
'bbed the stage single handed that !
ight within one hundred yards Of the e
ace were Jones was killed. He n
Is friends near there who would 4
arber him and give him every q
IslstaDce. lie