Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-01-30
PROMINENT YOUNG men arrested ON
CHARGE OF CATTLE STEALING

On Monday of this week this com
munity was thrown into a state of
considerable excitement over the ar
rest of several well-known and more
or less prominent young men OF the
lower end of the valley on charge
of cattle stealing. Warrants were
sworn out for Grover Young, John
Penrose, Elmer Swasey, Chas. Milne,
Nick Tregara and Lee Wills and they
were placed in the county Jail for a
time, until bonds were furnished for
the release of most OF them. The
complaining witnesses in the case are
,. J. Conway and his son, Will Con-
way, of Sweetwater, who are feeding
several hundred head of cattle on the
Warren and Van ranches in the lower
end OF the valley The defendants Sc
cured n. w. Willis as counsel to de
fend them and District Attorney
Campbell prosecuted the case at the
hearing before Justice Blanchard OF
this Township The hearing took up
the greater part of the week being
finished about noon yesterday, and de-
PENDANTS being held to appear before
the District Court on bonds fixed at
$1,000 each, which they all furnished
The testimony in the case was pret-
ty strong against the boys.
Harry Warren, who is looking after
the feeding of the cattle on the Van
ranch, was the first and main witness
in the case His testimony was to the
effect that on Sunday evening about
o:30 o'clock, he and an Indian by the
name OF Johnny Williams, who is
working on the Warren ranch, saw
Milne, Young, Penrose and Tregara
going to the Van ranch. Two of the
men were in a wagon and two on
horseback. Williams remarked that II
was a suspicious circumstance, but
Warren and the Indian went on to the
Warren ranch There they told VIII
Conway, who happened to be at the
ranch, of what they had seen At
about 7:30 that night shots were heart
at the Van ranch which is some little
distance northwest OF the Warren
ranch. Villains then told Conway
that some one was killing the cattle
and to come along and they would
catch them. However, nothing was
done until morning. Early Monday
morning Warren, Conway and Will
liams went TO the Van ranch. They
discovered blood on the ground near
the gate and following blood track
was a wagon track for distance of
about quarter OF mile A beef
animal had evidently been shot but
had not dropped, and the wagon was
following it about. They then found
where the beef had been killed an6
loaded onto the wagon. Officers Bulk
ley, of Wabuska, and Ambrose, Of
Yerington were then summoned, and
with an auto they trailed the wagon
which left blood track in the road
This track was followed for three miles
1t first came south to the Campbell
ranch road and then though the Bris-
son, Meadows, Parker, Young and
Penrose ranches to Wabuska. AT the
Young ranch half of 2-year-old
beef was found, freshly killed. The
entrails were found in hog corral and
the head near wood pile where some
dogs were eating it. The head had the
Conway mark on it, waffle on the
nose, Going on to Wabuska a part
ly demolished wagon was found with
the running boards and gear covered
with fresh blood. A half of a beef
rudely butchered and with the hide
still on it, was found in a shed back OF
the Milne home. A load of manure
which had been taken about half
mile west of Wabuska and dumped
was investigated and under the ma