, 1890-10-30
WALLACE Is AROUSED
She Will No Longer Harbor
Hard Characters.
NO MERCY To Be SHOWN THEM
Twelve Toughs Escorted Out of
Town by It's Citizens on
Last Sunday.

WALLACE, Oct. 26.-This has been an
eventiul sunday In Wallace. The indig-
nation OF the people has at last reached
the climax, and 1t would not be n great
surprise II some fine morning "stit'
Will be hanging to a telegraph pole, or
the limb of tree, with . placard at
tached giving the cause of his elevation
and a warning to all other characters of
his kind. Forbearance has ceased TO be
virtue and the people OF Wallace have
begun war Of extermi ration on the
crooks, thieves and foolpads which in
fest the town.
Tho numerous thefts Of the past few
weeks caused our people to seriously
consider the plan of driving them out in
a body. The town has an excellent
marshal, but he is powerless to handle
the large number of disrcptuable char
acters who have driited in here.
Besides, the jail, which was burned
several weeks ago, has never been
rebuilt and the county jail Is full to
overiiowing. So there Is no use arrest
ing them. 1t was thought that the
threats of the citizens to take the matter
into their own hands would cause many
of the toughs to leave town, but it did
not. On the contrary, they seemed to
become bolder.
This morning the marshal quietly no.
tified many citizens that he was going to
make a raid, and requested them to as
semble ut the corner of Sixth and Cedar,
and aid him in driving them out of town.
The citizens met at the appointed time
and the ma arshal started on his rounds.
The crowd kept getting larger, and final
ly the streets were crowded. This un-
usual assemblage, OF course, gave warn
ing, and many of the toughs got out of
the way. However, the marshal soon
rounded up eight hard-looking speci-
mems, and two abreast they were marched
down to the railroad track and headed
westward.
one Of them was drunk, but able to
walk all right until he saw what they
were going TO do with him, when he be-
came unable to walk. But this ruse
failed to help him In the least. With u
strong man on each side of him he was
pushed, carried and dragged for some
distance down the track. He finally re.
fused to go any further but raps from a
heavy elastic cane in the hands OF the
marshal proved an effective pcrsuader
He won't short distance and then
dropped ON the ground again.
A pool of water was near by and he
refresh him considerably, and he was
soon with his comrades ahead.
The whole number, eight were es-
corted as far as the Union Pacific yards
and then told to keep moving, which
they did. Several OF them protested
their innocence; others went quietly
along, as If that was their natural way of
leaving q town.
Later in the day the marshal found
half dozen more and started them over
the road. In the evening the one who
was drunk came BACK, and after receiv-
ing sound threshing from an irate citi-
zen, he was started down the road again
and this time will probably stay.
The most remarkable part OF the story,
and one which proves that we have u
hard gang to deal with, is that this even
ing in less than six hours from the time
these toughs were driven out by citizens,
two bold thefts were committed. A man
deliberately walked into Menheim's
store on lower sixth street, and grabbed
an armiul OF clothing and ran. He was
chased, and becoming alarmed, dropped
the clothes but made his escape.
Later In the evening, about $780,
man was robbed of his watch and chain
and about 50 in money in lower Sixth
street saloon. The victim was asleep in
a chair at. the time. A bystander saw
the act and before the thief could get out
of the house he was caught by the pro-
prietor and held until an officer came.
He fought desperately and denied his
guilt. The watch and money were
found in his possession, and he Is now
in custody of the officers.
The Indignation of the people is in
tense and extreme measures are likely
to be resorted to. Several special officers
are on duty Tonight, az IL is feared the
gang might attempt to burn the town.