The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-02-15
ROP[D IN HORSFIH|EVES
CAPTAIN JACK FOSTER OF ROSE.
BUD WAS HERE.
FOUND GANG IN THEIR DIVE
Out on the Rosebud Reservation the
Reservation Detective Nearly Cap
tured Bunch Who Have Terrorized
That Section for Years

Reservation Detective Nearly Cap
tured Bunch Who Have Terrorized
That Section for Years.
Forced by the high water In the
streams bordering the reservation To
turn back and journey by rail to Sioux
| Falls where he has business before the
federal court, Captain Jack" Foster,
government detective at Rosebud
agency who recently captured a band
of desperate horse thieves, passed
through Norfolk yesterday.
Captain Foster and Detective j. b.
Richard recently caught Tom Farren,
one of the leaders of the gang In Sioux
city, and he is now in Jail at Sioux
Falls awaiting trial.
Since then Captain Foster has cap
tured and jailed four other members
of the gang which has terrorized the
ranchmen and settlers of the western
range, as well as the inhabitants of
the Rosebud reservation. He accom-
plshed the capture neatly in a de-
serted cabin on the ranch of David
Colomb, n half breed Sioux, who was
temporarily away from his home on
Big White river
! Trapping the Thieves.
Foster, after leaving Sioux City,
journeyed to Murdo, and taking a
horse rode many miles with an as
sistant through heavy SHOWS to the
bluffs of the river, where he learned
the thieves were in the habit OF max
ing a rendezvous at Colomb's cabin.
Arriving near nightfall, he entered
the place after secreting his broncho,
and awaited the coming of the gang,
About midnight a low whistle was
heard outside the cabin. Foster re-
sponded and in moment light tap
came at the cabin door.
Making ready, Foster opened the
door and as Bill Moran, one of the
much wanted thieves, entered, he
found himself looking down the barrel
of the officers ready Colt
Put UP His Hands.
Hands up and no noise!" command
ed Foster.
Morgan obeyed and after the officer
had stripped him of his artillery and
snapped the bracelets on the prisoner,
|
calmly await the next member Soon
ED Whiting opened the door, to find
himself a prisoner as had Morgan.
He was quickly disarmed and seated
beside his partner, and then Foster,
learning from their conversation that
yet another member was outside at
tending to the horses, he bound the
legs of his two prisoners and sailed
forth
Near the corral in which the thieves
had placed ten stolen horses, he found
Sam Watkins, who, installing him for
Morgan was completely off his guard.
Escaped From Police.
} Foster escorted the crestfallen Wat
llins, who is youngster, to the cabin,
summoned his assistant and in a short
; time had the prisoners safe behind lock
} and key. Morgan was taken to the
Deadwood Jail, Watkins to Omaha and
Whiting to Springview, Keya Paha
county, where he and Dave Raymond,
a quarter blood Sioux, later caught by
the Indian police, from whom he es-
capped and still later captured by Sher-
iff Simmons of Valentine, Neb, will
be tried for cattle and horse stealing
in that county.
Ran Of Reservation.
Farren, Watkins and Morgan will be
tried in federal court They are
: charged with stealing horses from the
: Rosebud reservation.
Since Captain Foster was appointed
government detective at Rosebud near.
ly year ago, the activities of the
thieves have been curtailed. More
than a hundred horses have been re-
e covered by Foster. The thieves were
accustomed TO running the horses TO
small towns on the Elkhorn road,
where they were shipped east. Some
of the horses were taken north of
White river and sold to settlers. Cap
tain Foster is now on his way west to
I arrest several agents of the gang.
! The Omaha Bee says concerning
Watkins Deputy United States Mar
shall Moore returned from Bassett
g bringing with him Samuel Watkins,
4 an alleged horse thief, and lodged him
0 in the Douglas county Jail until ar
d rangements can be made for his trans
: fer to South Dakota.
d Watkins is charged with stealing
seventeen head OF horses from the
n Rosebud Indian reservation. He was
J. arrested at Springview and taken be-
{ fore United States Commissioner F.
d N, Morgan at Bassett, who bound him
v over to the federal courts of South
S Dakota in $1,000.
An order for Watkins removal to
e South Dakota was issued by Judge
4 Munger Monday afternoon.