The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-25
MERCHANTS HAD A TIP.
Were expecting the raid. Three men
were waiting for the Robbers
with shotguns.

Five years ago, everybody who knew
Joe Lawson considered him good boy.
He attended school in DeLamar, bach
ing alone and doing odd jobs for his
support. He was industrious, good
pupil at school, quiet and gentlemanly.
The next summer, backed by one of
our merchants, he took contract for
getting out mining timbers at South
Mountain, worked industriously, made
some money and settled up honorably.
Two years ago, he swindled an old lady
in Jordan Valley out of about sl,5OO,
started to gambling and going to the
devil at rapid pace. Afterward he
held Old Man Miller up, down at a
ranch below Flint, and robbed him of
$50. A little less than year ago, he
robbed Charley Curtis cabin, at his
. cattle camp, 80 miles from here, getting,
among other things, blank check
book of the Bank at Winnemucca,
which he took to Boise and Caldwell'
using it industriously, forging MIR.
Curtis name to checks and passing
them profusely, assisted by a man who
gave his name as Morgan. lie came
here and to Jordan Valley and got off
few more of the checks, principally
in payment of gambling losses, and
then skipped. He was later heard
from in Northern California, but for
months past, has been supposed TO
have been hiding over in 1.-The jumpers"
in this county Several stolen horses,
saddles and cattle have been charged
up to a gang over there of which he
has been thought the leading spirit. A
big fellow named Jensen, who worked
in one of the butchershops here few
years ago, was supposed to be another
of the gang, and the woman whom we
gave the name of Calamity Jane short
time ago, another. Last Monday, the
woman aud little boy drove few
head of cattle into DeAamar, to sell,
Int failed to dispose of more than three
or four head, on account of the suspic-
ious brands, and Wednesday, she drove
The remainder TO Jordan Valley, to
turn them over to Blackaby & Parks,
who held mortgage on them 1t ap-
pears that Lawson and Jenson were i'll
TO the plan and arranged to hold
E!ackaby & Parks up when the settle
meDt was made. 1t was closed about
nine o'clock Wednesday night, and the
two gentlemen, wearing masks, dropped
into the store just at that time and at,
tempted to hold the merchants up,
with disastrous results. BY some
means the suspicious of people in the
town had been aroused, and they were
prepared for them. Lawson was met
with load of buckshot which immedi-
ately terminated his career and his
partner ran out of the store only to
encounter Nick Maher, Of the Jordan
Valley Hotel, who was watching outside
with shotgun. But Nick, uncertain
in the dark whether it was the robber
or friend, did not shoot. But the fel-
low, when about thirty feet away from
Nick, took shot at the latter, luckily
missing him. Nick then turned loose
his gun, evidently wounding the man
for his gun and hat were picked up at
the spot, but the man got away.
The hat had been riddled with buck
shot and some marks of blood were
found, but the fel low got away in the
darkness and has not yet been caught.
When the two robbers rushed into the
store Lawson was in the lead, the other
following closely behind. Young Parks
was waiting at the desk, near The safe;
Parks, senoir, Dick Hart and Mexican
were concealed in the store, with guns,
and all evidently fired about the in
slant, all aiming at the same man, thus
enabling the other one to escape,
through the smoke and confusion.
Lawson ran to the door and fell out on
the step dead.
Nick Maher, Jap Duncan, John Sc
bree and a cattle buyer, with Sebree
were sitting in the hotel, not far from
the store, when they heard the shots.
Maher jumped behind the bar counter
for his gun; Duncan ran to the sitting
room for his; Sebree got behind the
safe and the other man out the back