Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-23

tools. Signed, Peter Horen, by Henry
Plummer. attorney in fact"
September 8 we find him as admin
istrator of the estate of George Co.
hart. deceased" wherein he sells for
$4,000, of which 81, 900 is in hand paid,
certain claims on the Dacota lode.
Signed, George Cohart, by Henry Plum
mer, administrator"
Septemer 16, Plummer sold his resi-
dence" to James A. Vail, acknowledge
ing receipt of $500 "in hand paid" con-
veying in return ''all my right, title and
interest in and to the following de-
Scribed property, tO-Wit. Being one
house and lot situated on the south side
on the main street of the Yankee fiat
addition to Bannack City, Idaho terri
tory, being the property occupied by me
as residence, and lying adjoining the
property Of Henry Tolen."
Thus one catches a glimpse of Ban
nack's hey-dey, when all the talk was
not OF gold claims along Grasshopper
creek, but the Sub-divider was busy
laying out attractive additions such
as Yankee flat, Centervilie, East Ban
mack, and other quiet suburban COM
munitieS where n would not be kept
awake nights by the sound of gentle
men shooting each other for holding
too many aces, or too much whiSkey,
or not enough, or just for the paStime
Of shooting.
Plummer Suspected
And in this rough and boiSterouS at
mOSphere moved Mr.. Plummer, sheriff
Looking after official duties, drinking
his whisky for the most part like a
gentleman-and at night in secret
meeting the members Of his ruf1an
gang to plan new atrocities.
1t began to be whispered around
or to become known almost without
whispering-that the life of Mr.. Plum
mer, sheriff, was not all it should be.
No n dared to whisper such a dread
secret unless in the guarded precincts
of a cabin that served as home" Too
many people had "mysteriously disap-
peared," and the whiSpererS we're In
great fear, but Plummer was suspected
of being in with the road agents. But
the good people of Bannack hardly
dared to breathe this suspicion.
The date of one of the last docu-
ments he filed for record was a pro-
phetic and sinister n for him. The
uUCuIlCtlt WdS llUU ulluSudl lkoCll, ~ Wdo
q writ of execution of sale, filed in his
capacity as sheriff. But at the very
time he filed it the V~igilantes were
being organized, and the next day at
Nevada City began the trial Of George
Ives, followed by his hanging.
Plummer must have devined that he
was suspected, and guardedly began
planning to leave the country. He had
sent his wife away. But he did not
openly show any fear, and went about
his business a. usual. That Is, both
his assumed business as sheriff, and
the nefariouS business of directing the
criminal operations of his road agent
band.
In Shadow of Gall0ws
January 4, he filed his last document.
This time with five others, locating a
100-foOt claim on whites discovery
bar" Associated with him in the fl
ing we're several eminent and respected
citizens: Horace Clark, I. zully, B. r.
Burchett, P. Doherty and Joseph
Piunkett. On that date the gallows
cast their shadow on him, for EraStus
wager and G. l.. Brown, just before
they were hanged by V~igilantes at
Sinking Water, made a full confession
of the membership and activities Of the