The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-18

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several jobs planned to rob,
1 places in Delamar.
The prisoners were all brought
to Phoebe and lodged in jail
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Monroe or Miss Monticell
is of a SANDER build, weighs
about 100 pounds, five feet four
inches in height, dark olive COM
plexion, black hair and eyes.
when seen at the Jail Wednesday
she was attired in a mans black
cutaway sack suit, fadora hat,
hair cut short and if seen on
the street would be passed for a
man. She while in Salt Lake
on her way to Delamar to join
her confederates, told the fol-
lowing story to a Herald Re-
porter:
Nello Monticeli, an Italian
girl q years OF age, known at
her parents ranch near Montrose
Colo, as Nell, the Cowboy. 4"
was arrested at midnight Thurs
day by Detectives Wheeling and
Z
Rhodes, just as.she boarded the
Salt Lake route train for the
gold fields of Nevada On a pros
pecting trip. The Salt Lake
Hardware company had sold her
ten pounds of dynamite and re-
fusing to express it, she packed
it in her grip. The police were
notified and the young woman
was detained in the city jail last
night.
Her story of a prospecting
trip through the deserts of Neva-
da that she had planned was
told to the officers, and after she
had expressed the dynamite to
Delamar she was released.
Miss Monticeli left last night
for Bullfrog, where she will
search for a fortune.
When she arrives there she
has planned to, throw away her
tangling skirts and don suit of
mems corduroy clothes. Wearing
high top-boots, a flannel shirt,
two six-shooters strapped to her
belt, and broad-brimmed white
hat, she will launch out into the
desert wastes to battle with
thirst, hunger and hardships for
gold.
This will not be the first time
that she has worn mems clothes
or crossed a desert. The sun
scorched plains of Arizona and
New Mexico failed to battle her.
She rode the deserts over for
three months where at times
thirst and hunger were Haunted
in her face. She could speak the
language OF the Mexican, and
once when she strayed away in
to the hills this saved her life.
Her mining experiences also
are varied. In Colorado, where
she lived until her fathers death
she visited the mines. In her
wild rides she met many pros
pecting parties. She has set off
blast, drilled single-handed and
been to the bottom of the deep
est mines in that state. With
this practical experience she be-
lieves that she can go through
the deserts of Nevada and fight
with men for claims. If fortune
smiles on her in Nevada she in
tends to take trip to sunny
Italy, where she was born.
Miss Monticeli has about 5000, |
and can get more to take her on
her prospecting trip, At Della
mar she intends to buy a pack of
provisions. With two burros
and an Indian pony she intends
to go out in the neighborhood of
the rich strikes and establish a
camp, where she can obtain
water. From there she will
prospect in an unknown country.
II lovedsmy Colorado home,
where / was raised on a ranch
near Montrose," she said yester-
day. When my father died
three years ago my mother and
sisters and brothers moved east. |
having sold the old ranch. |
They could not keep me peened
up in city. Ilonged to straddle
a horse and take to the mountains
up hill and down dale. The life
had too many pleasures out west
to live in a hot, congested city,
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