The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
HORSE THIEVES
ROUNDED Up BY
POSSE At OASIS
Two of Three Members of Gang Sur
render After Making Tempo
rary Getaway.
CLIFF REGAIN, NOTORIOUS
BANDIT, MAKES ESCAPE
Clarence Beall, Texas Cowboy, Well
Known i'm Goldfield, One of
Men Appreciated.

Constable ID. NJ. Nichol of Lone
Pine. Cal, and a posse of citizens of
big Pine, Bishop and Oasis captured
two of three alleged horse thieves
late Saturday afternoon in a box can
yon about a mile and a half west OF
Oasis, a short distance across the Ne
vada state line. Red" Cliff Regain,
a notorious bandit, wanted in several
states. who was the third member
of the gang, escaped and is believed
to have taken refuge in THE Hole
in the Wall'' country near Stonewall
mountain. about thirty miles east of
Goldfield.
The two members of the gang ar
rested we're taken to Bishop, while
Constable Nichol and William Hoops
and Indian George of Oasis began the
work of trailing Regan, starting out
from Oasis early Sunday morning.
They rode all day SUNDAY and fol
lowed Regan's tracks to Cocomonga
Springs, through Tule canyon and
to Tom Rhea's camp near Mount
Jackson, about twenty-five miles
south of Goldfield, where darkness
caused them to lose the trail. Nichol
and his two companions arrived in
Goldfield about 2 o'clock this morn
ing, completely exhausted by their
twenty-hour ride.
Clarence Beall, a Texas cowboy,
known as a bad man, is n of the
alleged horse thieves captured and
held at Bishop. The lame of the
other alleged horse thief under arrest
Is not known. Prior to the round
up of the two men by the posse, Beall
had a narrow escape from death Sat
urday morning when. in making a
temporary getaway from Unstable
Nichol. a bullet from the officers re-
volver passed through his saddle and
struck a revolver in his right hip
pocket. badly discoloring his flesh
but doing no other injury.
News Is Received.
News of the roundup of Beall and
his companion and the escape of Re-
gan reached Goldfield late last night
and, upon the arrival here of Nichol
early this morning, Sheriff ingalls,
dispatched Deputy Sheriffs John Shir-
lev and Paddy McDermott, in an aut-
omobile, to Cuprite to search for Re-
gan. Shirley telephone Sheriff In.
gals from Hornsilver during the
morning that he had found no trace
of Regain in that vicinity and that he
and McDermott would endeavOr to
pick up the bandits trail at tne Rhea
camp, near Mount Jackson, where
it was lost last night by Constable
NichOl and his two companions, who
themselves resumed the search this
afternoon.
According to information obtained,
Beall left Goldfield about a month
ago for Bakersfield, Cal, after Duy-
ing two horses from IN Indian and
a double set of harness and a buck
board from M. A. Kibby, a local liv-
eryman. He paid SIS on account on
the harness and blackboard, the full
price of which was $45. On his way
to Bakersfield, it is said, Beall trad
ed Archie harrington, residing at
the Deep Springs ranch in 1nyo u
ty, a saddle for a horse and continued
on his way. Arriving at Bakersfield,
he met Regain and the third man and
started back to Nevada.
Arriving at blanche. five miles
north of independence. on Wednes-
day, April 30. Regain and the third
man secreted themselves on the out
skirts of the town while Beall vent
to the ranch of George Brown and
sold him the two horses which the
trio had driven from Bakersfield
Following the sale of the two horses,
Beall went to Bishop, bought two
horses from George Mcleod and
drove to Big Pine. The night of the
departure of Beall from blanche, Re
gan and the third man of the gang,
it was stated by Constable Nichol,
stole two horses, two pairs of chaps,
two saddles and a RATA from the
ranch of George Walker.
Walker notified Constable Nichol
of the disappearance of his horses
and other property and the officer be-
ban an investigation which caused
him to go to Big Pine Friday. He was
Joined there by Ed ODER, game war
den of Inyo county, Ed McAniny and
Walter harrington, in an automo-
bile. Coming northward in the ma
chine, the party came upon Regain,
Beall and their companion riding
horses and leading two pack horses,
about a mile and a half west of Oasis.
AS the auto stopped and Constable
Nichol alighted, all three of the al
legged horse thieves put their right
hands on their guns, but did not
draw them. Constable Nichol told
them they were under arrest and to
get off of their horses.