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Print Archive:
Rawlins Republican 06.10.1899
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SHABBY TREATMENT. |
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Natrona County officers Did Not Treat Carbon County
Decently. |
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Natrona County
officers Did Not Treat Carbon County Decently.
Sheriff McDaniel and his posse composed of Wm.
Daley, Jas. J. Fenley, City Marshal Dan Healy,
Chas. Cobb, J. C. Graham, Tom King, Wm. Ranker,
F. H. Farris, C. R. Tremmell and Fred Gates, who
left Rawlins a week ago Friday to search for the
train robbers, returned Thursday afternoon,
having seen no trace of the bandits.
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| Mr. Wm. Daley
informs the Republican that the Carbon county people
received very shabby treatment from the officers of
Natrona county with whom they came in contact, and
our boys certainly have reason to feel very sore at
the Natrona county outfit. |
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| Sheriff McDaniel
and his posse after leaving here, went north to H.
A. Chapman's place and thence on to Alcova where
they arrived Sunday. At that point they met Deputy
Sheriff Tubbs, of Natrona county, and three men who
were guarding the bridge across the Platte river. An
agreement was made between Sheriff McDaniel and Mr.
Daley, who is representing the Union Pacific
railroad company, and the Natrona county officers
that the latter should follow the river back to
Casper, and if any news had been received of the
bandits at that place or any intermediate points, a
messenger was to be sent post haste to advise the
Carbon county people of the development. The Carbon
county boys waited around Alcova and in that
vicinity, about twenty-four hours and not a word was
received from the Natrona county officers, so our
boys naturally supposed that no trace had been
discovered of the robbers. They knew nothing about
the fact that the posse under Sheriff Hazen and
Special Agent Wheeling had encountered three of the
robbers and the former had been killed in the fight.
Receiving nothing from Casper our boys decided to
follow up the Platte river to Fort Steele hoping to
find some trace of where the robbers had attempted
to cross a river. They therefore knew nothing of the
developments until he got back to Fort Steele
Thursday. |
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| In addition, and
to the arrangements with the Natrona county deputy
sheriff. Mr. Daley sent a message by the stage
driver between Alcova and Casper to Superintendent
Harris asking for instructions, but he never
received a word from the Superintendent. Mr. Daley
thinks the stage driver destroyed the message and
never delivered it. What makes it look bad for the
Natrona county people is the fact that Sheriff
McDaniel and Mr. Daley agreed to bear all expenses
of sending word back to them, and requested that the
messenger be sent with all possible speed regardless
of the cost, and this the Natrona county outfit
promised to do. |
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| Mr. Daley thinks
that the Natrona county officers were jealous of
Carbon County and took this method of preventing
them from assisting in the chase after the bandits.
Mr. Daley, Charley Cobb and others of the Carbon
county posse are familiar with the Powder river
country, and it was their intention to strike out at
once for the Tisdale ranch if they had received word
that the robbers had crossed the Platte. They could
have reached the Tisdale Ranch as quick from Alcova
as the posse could from Casper. The Natrona county
officials owe Carbon county an explanation at least. |
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