The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-12-30

4 Cemetery where NO honest man
Of Club Foot George Lane, an
nent was premature. A mass meet
ng was held. Judge Hoyt of st. Paul
vas elected to preside over the ex-
:emp0raneous court, and Hank Craw-
lord was chosen sheriff. Plummer
was put out ON trial for the killing |
Df Cleveland, and was acquitted. |
Then Reeves and Moore were tried |
for shooting the Indians. Twelve
men were named for jurors and they
voted one for hanging and II for ac-
quittal. The road agents and their |
friends were jubilant over their vic
tory. Not satisfied with their i'm.
munity for the past, they planned
on all who had been prom
lnent in the citizens movement. Sew
eral attempts were made to kill
the peoples sheriff. He
made his way by hard riding to the
Missouri river and reached the states,
but not until he had shot Plummer,
his arm. Others who had
in the trial were waylaid
and beaten or run Oft to the states.
Repeated plots to assassinate N. p.
Langford were only frustrated by the
watchfulness Of his friends. The
robberies came thick and fast. One
day it was q stage, the next a store,
and the third 4 party on the Benton
trail to take the boat down the Mis-
souri,.
A promiscucas shooting in Skin
ner's saloon resulted in the death of
George Carrbert, q young man nam
ed Banetiel& and Buz Craven's dog,
''T'oddler. ''O1d Snag," q friendly
Ban1Ack chief, came into town one
day and Buck Stinson, whom Plum
mer had made one of his chief depu-
ties, kFF1eA him, while Cyrus Skinner
Immediately stepped up and took the
scalp.
MsE6er Of Dillingham;
There was a break In the series Of
rotberies when man named Dilling-
that the stage was to be held up on
Ia certain day. The friend foolishly
betrayed Dillingham;. A day later
Stinson, Haze Lyons and Charley
Forbes walked UP to Dillingham;, and
drawing their pistols shot him down,
This prompted another session of the
peoples court. and . second farce re.
suited. Lyons and Stinson were con.
victed and sentenced to be hanged BY
a mass-meeting OF the miners. But
when Forbes was tried there was 9
revulsion Of sentiment. He was {
fine looking fellow and had beer
writing letters to the California pa,
pers about the Montana gold discov
cries. The women cried over him
He was acquitted. Then the wave O.
tender sentiment was worked up b!
the other road agents in Stinson's AMI
Lyons behalf. BY the mass-meetinl
vote It was decided to Danish rathel
than hang them. They were put OF
horses and sent out of camp, followed
by cheers.
After the second abortive attemp
to deal with the band there was an
other series of robberies and muir
ders. eliminating in the killing o
Nicholas THAT, an inoffensive Ger
man, who had been sent after a team
of mules. The body was not f0un'
for several days, but when it wa
brought to town and exposed to viey
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