The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-05

q ssed - dvisability Of filing St
Clair r. Gold lead. They took a
vote on fiia opposition and the result
wss roE favor OF committing the
M areze- They concluded that IL would
look better and less c0vardly 20 shoot
St Clair in the chase that they antici-
pated woule follow their departure
from the eits-
Having abandoned the idea OF rob-
bling the bank they mounted their horses
ana started for the Yellowstone a posse
was organized. consisting of Stock In
SReStor w. j.. Smith Of Miles City. Dick
ICES ICES OF Billings. H c. Calhoun Of CO.
tumeus, Con Mendenhan OF Lavina, At
tOtneN stone OF Red Lodge and myself.
We trailed the outlaws across the Yel-
lyMs+one at Columbus and came upon
them at about 3 O'Clock one night in the
nus 4H some twenty miles from Lawns. in
TO the top Of a Hill 70 take a view of the
country and we approached the camp
saddiing his horse. we threw down or
him and commanded him to throw M
DE- lnstsad 81 ooeylng the summons h9
sol on the otner side Of his horse. pulled
MS six shooter and threw it down over
the PACK or the animal. The next IN,
slant iiIe pail ION my gun struck Cur.
RE in the wrist and turned him around
several times He then sprang on the
horse and started for the hills As he
came 10 a wire fence his ho-so v.-.s -r--
IN jumping the fence and landed dead on
the other side Currie started OF on foot.
captured the other two members of tho
sang and Went in search of Currie. I saw
MN about a mile distant in the hills and
I1ue around and craWled up within a
short distance of where he Law partly
concealed behind a sand hill 7 told him
reply he held up his bloody hand and
sara ne was shot in the breast and was
oylnS- lie didn't look 70 me like a dying
man, and / told him that If he didn't
come over to where I was I'd tear down
mat sand hill This had the desired er-
Il O.
entirely dlSarmed and ] went back to
the sand hti and found his two six
buried in the sand.
We took the three outlaws TO Bill.
ingS and turned them Over to the Officers
OF south Dakota and they were placed
In the Deadwood jail. along with Tom
f,I Day = ia await cor trial al Pending ne sit
O'Day and Putney were captured three
days afterward. but the Roberts boys
S9SSesoed IN ,, m5q5aklng good their escape;
an alibi and were discharged from Gus
tody-"
The notoriety given the Hole-in-the-
Wall country, owing to It being a place
where train robbers and other criminal
classes infest, is not pleasing to the resi-
dents Of that section The Pilot Of Their
mopolis, Wyo-. in speaking Of the matter.
1t is the earnest wish Of the community
that the editors OF the several newspa-
pers published along the line Of the Union
Pacific refrain from mentioning she fact
that 80 per cent Of the desperate crimi-
mails Of the country are either located in
or making for the HOle-in-the-Wau coun-
try, which is located in the Big Horn
basin. In the first place the HOle-in-the-
Wall is not located in the Big Horn
basin. and IN the second place the Hole
in-the-Wall is not the rendezvous OF a
band OF robbers. The Wall Is
nothing more than an ordinary canyon.
which affords pasturage for the large
bands Of sheep and cattle. Ii is true that
g deal OF cattle rustling has been done
there in early days, but those same men
that did the rustlinS are mostly all oc-
cupying either state or government posi-
tons This one topic the people of Big
Horn basin are getting exceedingly tired
or and II IS their earnest prayer that
these editors call a halt
The citizens Of the basin are a thrifty
and enterprising class of people Who are
engaged in different pursuits, such az
stock raising, farming and mining, and
IN the past year they have almost dOu-
bied the farming acreage OF the BASIN