Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-09
FRONTIER THIRVBS|
One Thousand Horses Stolen
 by RUstlerS.
HUNTING PARTIES AFTER THEM
No Mercy Will be Shown the Bands When
 Captured

1t Has Been Determined so Rld the
 Country of Them-o One Man Shot
 Through the Head, Others HIysterI-
 Ously Disappear The Thieves are
 Located at the Jackson Hole in Wyom-
 ing-A Horse Thieves' Paradise.
 HELENA, Mont, April 9.-ThS first results of the war looking to the exter- imitation of horse thieves in Eastern Montana and Wyoming has just come to light, when the body of a man was found on Alkal Creek, about ten miles from Billings.
 He had been shot through the head and had been deah several days.
 The man has not been identified, but is supposed to be Wyoming rbstler en- route to Canada. Two other men sus- pected to be in communication with horse thieves have mysteriousiy disap- peared within the past few days. Two parties are now after the rustlers, who are located at the Jackson Hole, in Wyoming, with Q thousand stolen horses in their possession. A party of fifteen, all frontier and mountain men, under the leadership of Sim Roberts, left Big Timber, in Eastern Montana, for Jackson Hole a few days ago.
 Another party expects to reach the north end of the basin under the leader ship of the Chapman brothers at about the same time as the first party.
 Each will be largely reinforced on it's way to the Hole, and as every man is determined to rid the country of rustlers some interesting reports may soon be expected.
 ST PAUL, April 9.-Correspondenc from Chamberlain, s. D., details at | length tho exploits of a band of horse and cattle thieves, known as the "CuI- bertson Gang" who commenced opera driven from there went to Northeastern Nebraska, where they resumed opera tions.
 The band was short lived in that sec ton, and vigilance committee hunted down and disbanded the gang, killing several and driving the survivors out of the country.
 Two Culbertson brothers escaped and afterward went to the Black Hills, where their identity was hidden until they were arrested for the brutal killing l of a friendly Indian named Few Tails | during the closing days of the Indian disturbances at Pine Ridge five months ago.
 Although they practically admitted l the killing, they were liberated on the ground that war with the Indians ex- isted at that time5 and that the killing was an act of waf.sc
 'Old man' Hoyt, one of the band who was not fully identified with the running off of cattle and horses, but wAo is known to have harbored the thieves, was permitted to escape with | his life
 Word has just reached Chamberlain that he has returned to his old 'fstamp- ing grounds'' in the Bluffs west of Run ming Water, Bonhomme county. He reached there the other day after an absence of nearly fifteen years, and l again lives in an old hut that was his | former home.
 The dwelling is on the east side of the | Missouri River, directly opposite the town of Nobrara, Neb., and is located on the mouth of 8 deep ravine that extends back from the Missouri to a distance of | two or three miles. a" This aravine was 8 veritable horse I thieves paradise, and completely con- cealed their actions. Hoyt is now quite old, and has come back to the old home of the desperadoes to die