Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-20
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bers of the party that left Daggett.
When the party reached Dry Camp
Keyes and Smith were sent by Walter
Scott ostensibly to Ballarat after hay
and feed for the horses they to join
the party later on. "Bill' Scott to re-
main at Dry Camp. The theory of the
officers is that in fact these two men
were sent out to get ahead of the
main party and head them off at Win
gate pass and thus prevent the min
ing experts ever seeing the mining
property they sought and in which
the New Workers had so heavily in
vested.
If this was the scheme they were
successful, for as the party approached
Wingate pass they were ambushed, the
result of the battle of bullets being
we'll known. Warner Scott was wound
ed and is still in a Los Angeles hos
pital, and the balance of the party
took to hiding as soon as possible.
]. J. Hartigan, who came upon the
party just as the shooting was in
progress, had d few holes shot in his
hat.
District Attorney Sprecher states
that he believes that Keyes and Smith
are the men who actually did the shoot
ing, but that it was all a part of a
we'll conceived plan that had been
Scott.
Saw Men on Mules
When the party were returning to
Daggett after the shooting, having
failed in their mission to discover the
mines, they sighted two men riding
mules, and it is believed these men
were Keyes and Smith, who We're fol-
lowing them up and perhaps looking
for another opportunity to make a
second attack and finish the work in
which they partially failed at Win
gate pass.
The day after the shooting Mining
Expert Owen completely collapsed
from fright and the exhaustion of the
trip following the attack. Shortly
after the party had returned to Dag
gett Keyes and Smith appeared at
Daggett, telling a narrowing tale of
how they, too. had been pursued by
strange characters on the desert and
how they had failed to find the party
where they were to meet them and
had finally found that for some reason
they had returned TO Daggett.
As the Scott party approached Win
gate pass on the way out most of the
party wanted to camp outside of the
pass and make the narrow defile the
next morning, but Walter Scott re-
fused, saying that he had a water
claim on the other side in Death val
ley, and that it would be a much more
desirable place to camp; thus wanted
to make the trip at once.
Link in Chain
After Warner Scott had been shot
Walter Scott is alleged to have come
out from cover and, throwing up his
hands, wildly exclaimed:
stop your shooting you have shot
a man."
And the shooting ceased at once.
While as yet the officers have been
unable to fix a participation in the
shooting on "Bill" Scott, still it is
believed he, too, Joined Keyes and
Smith and took part in the ambush
ing of the party. 1t is probable that
If he is found he, too, will be placed
under arrest.
A lone man was seen walking past
the camp the night after the shooting
and members of the party wanted
Walter Scott TO take a shot at the
stranger, but he refused. BY some
members of the party the stranger is
believed to be "Bill' Scott, who was
merely hanging about as a part of
the bluff to frighten the mining ex-
perts and DIR. Johnson, and discourage
ing their desires to penetrate the des-
ert wilderness further, making them
helieye it was great wild, infested
by holdup men and desperadoes who
We're after everyone who was believed
TO nave any money or valuables.