Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-30

W ealthy New Yorker
Dies as 4 Desperate
Chamberlain, Oct. 2S. Through a
visit just made to western South na,
kota by Miss Anna L. Hill, of New
York City, representing the Children's
Aid society Of that city. the mystery
which for nearly thirty years enyalnn.
ed the fate Of Henry Tuttle or Tuthill,
Ia young man from New York City.
who had inherited the sum OF $5o. 900
from his parents has been solved.
The investigation conducted by Miss
Hill proves that young Tuthill, upon
arriving IN the region near. the Black
Hills. got into bad company, became
q member OF q notorious gang OF
horse thieves and. in February. 1884,
after the members Of the band had
been killed or captured by posse Of
officers was taken from a hospital and
lynched by men whose identity never
was discovered.
The investigation OF Miss Hill as to
the fate OF Tuthill reveals an inter.
esting series Of episodes In western
history. Tuthill was bright young
man, absolutely lacking in any Of the
instincts which usually were associat-
ed with the bad men" of those days,
and must have drifted into such as.
sociation needless of possible conse.
quences and with a desire for excite.
ment alone. He had the advantages
of a good education and was the pos.
SCISSOR of fortune through the in.
heritance from his parents, but de
| SIRE to see and be part of the wild
west led him into life which could
have only one ending,
The Exelbee gang was perhaps the
most notorious of the many bands OF
outlaws which infested the Black Hills
region in the early '80s. It was corn
posed Of such men as John Campbell
Billy Macarthur. better known as
Billy the Kid" Charles Brown OF
"Broncho Charley and Alex Grady
with George Exelbee as chief. Mem
bers Of the gang frequently visited the
frontier settlements in the guise d
cowboys or hunters, for the purpose
of spying out the land, and even mel
engaged in legitimate pursuits were
Sometimes found aiding and abettinf
the gang and sharing In the profits
IN the winter of 1884 the curtain
finally dropped on the long and blood,
career of the Exelebe gang. The out
laws in their extended raids had Wis
| tied the Indian reservations on til,
! Missouri river and stolen a lot of In
dian ponies. This brought them int,
1 direct conflict with the authorities o
the United States and proved thei
] undoing. A warrant for the arres
of the thieves was issued and placed
In the hands of Deputy United State!
! Marshal Raymond, of Deadwood, wht
at once summoned a posse and starr
led on the trail Of the desperadoes
4 The outlaws doubtless having beer
! forewarned of the danger Of beini
caught by the representatives Of Uncl,
Sam, packed their personal equipmen
and started toward Miles City, Mont
One of the posses, composed of F'ret
4 A. Willard and Jack O'Hara, of Spear
fish and Capt. A. M. Willard, of Dead
wood, overlook the five mounted ban
/ dts at Stoneyille, Mont, where a des
perate battle ensued between the des
! peradoes and the United States mar
shal's posse. Tuthill was MORTAL,
wounded in this fight and was taker
to hospital where it was though
necessary to perform an operation te
save his life. The operation never
was performed, for during the silent
hours of the night, a band of sis
masked and armed men entered the
hospital where the sufferer lay, and
| bound and gagged him and carried hin
away, groaning with pain.
The next morning his rigid body,
clad only in thin cotton shirt, was
seen swinging like pendulum from
the limb of an oak tree in the frigid
February wind. For a time, after in
heriting the $4,000 from his parents
Tuthill lived with a family named
Case at Mason City, Iowa, by whom
he was reared until he struck out for
the wild west beyond the Missouri
river where he met his tragic death.
Jurymen are Drawn
for November + -erm,