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Print Archive: Ogden
Standard Examiner 03.06.1903
| Wyoming
Posse after Notorious Outlaw |
| “Laughing
Dick” Carey, or the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, is Being Closely
Pursued by Officers |
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| Denver,
March 6. – A special to the Post from Cheyenne says: Laughing
Dick, or as he is more commonly known “Gaping Dick” Carey, said
to be the last of the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall gang of cattle
rustlers, and train robbers, for whom rewards aggregating $3,000
have been offered, is still at large, but a posse is close on his
trail and his capture is hourly expected. Last Wednesday Carey
passed through Sara-(unintelligible), en route north, twelve hours
ahead of the officers, but his mount was jaded and it is though he
cannot escape. In view of the proposed hunting trip of President
Roosevelt through Wyoming, an extra effort is being made to place
the outlaw behind bars. Carey, it is said, was for years a member of
the notorious “Butch” Cassidy and the George Curry gangs of
outlaws that made their headquarters in the Hole-in-the-Wall country
in Central Wyoming and the “Robbers’ Roost” section of
Southern Wyoming and Northern Colorado. When a mere boy, it is said,
he served the older outlaws as a herder, messenger and camp
attendant. In 1901, in consequence of the theft of 350 horses from
the Medicine Butte company the South Dakota authorities offered
$1,000 for Carey’s capture and the Medicine Butte company offered
a like sum. Johnson county officers trailed Carey to Wolton last
October and, after a sharp fight, in which Carey’s horse was
killed under him, effected his capture. Carey feigned a broken leg
and he was taken to Senator Madden’s ranch near Lost Cabin and
placed in charge of a herder over night. Carey was not hurt,
however, and, during the night, he overpowered his guard, secured a
pistol, and went to the ranch house where he held up the inmates and
secured a Winchester rifle and a belt full of cartridges. Returning
to the barn he mounted the fastest horse and made his escape. The
Ranchmen fired a fusillade of shots at the escaping bandit, and
heard him cry out in pain, but he was not dangerously wounded. The
next day Carey was trailed a distance of thirty miles by blood from
his wound, but he took to a stream and threw his pursuers off the
trail. Senator Madden offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of
the outlaw, and since that time officers have been searching for
Carey. Early in January he was located in Routt (unintelligible)
county, Colorado, but he got wind of the officers coming and fled to
Utah. About the middle of February Carey was located in the
mountains near Thompson’s, Utah, but he was warned by friends of
the approach of the officers and again made his escape. |
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| Source:
Utah Digital Newspapers (http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/) |
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