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LOST TRAIL OF ROBBERS |
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Only Chance of Capture Now is By
Posse from Idaho |
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Yesterday’s Elko Independent gives
the following particulars of the chase after the
bank robbers: |
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Sheriff Campbell and J. J. Campbell
returned Tuesday afternoon from the North Fork
country, where they went Saturday evening in
response to a telephone message stating that the
bank robbers were in that vicinity. They reached
Mrs. Johnson’s place on North Fork Sunday morning
about 6 o’clock. They got breakfast, changed teams
and drove to Hugh Martin’s ranch. Here they left
their team and took saddle horses and rode the
country between there and Mountain City. They met
several sheepherders and ranchers during the day,
but none of them had heard or seen anything of the
robbers. Being satisfied that the robbers had taken
a different course and being over forty hours behind
them, the Sheriff concluded to return. |
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From Harvey Rutherford we learn that
the robbers crossed the country about three and a
half miles west of the Rutherford ranch on North
Fork some time Friday night or Saturday forenoon.
Ed. Kavanaugh and posse arrived at the ranch
Saturday night. Sunday morning Kavanaugh’s posse and
Harvey Rutherford started in pursuit. They followed
the trail about five miles and lost it. Bands of
sheep roaming through that section had entirely
obliterated the tracks of the robbers. They spent
the rest of the day looking for the trail, but were
unable to find it. They returned to Mr. Rutherford’s
Saturday night. Monday morning Kavanaugh and posse
left for Mountain City and found the trail and
started in pursuit. They got to Gold Creek and were
compelled tos top and shoe their horses. |
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From the direction the robbers were
taking, Sheriff Campbell believes they are headed
for the mountain pass about fifteen miles north of
Mardis. He thinks the only chance of their capture
is by posses from the Idaho side. |
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In a conversation with Kavanaugh over
the telephone he told the Sheriff that he had enough
men with him and was not in need of anything.
Kavanugh knows the country thoroughly and will give
the robbers a hot chase. |
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Mr. Stone and Ed. Ducker of
Winnemucca left Weilands yesterday for Mason and
Bradley’s ranch on Mary’s river to head off the
bandits should they go that way. |
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From what we can learn it seems
certain that Mellville Fuller of White Rock and a
man named Perkins are two of the gang. It is
reported that Fuller said a short time ago that he
was tired of laying around and that he had a scheme
on hand and would either wear diamonds or shackles
before long. |
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Tuesday’s Tuscarora Times-Review
contains the following: |
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Deputy Sheriff Rose of Winnemucca and
E. Duvivier of Golconda returned Sunday evening from
a chase after the bank robbers, having pretty well
covered the country from Bull Run basin to the Grant
ranch below White Rock without finding any trace. In
Bull Run basin, near Columbia, they found what may
possibly be a clue in the shape of tracks similar to
those followed to Battle Mountain last Thursday, but
nothing more. Ed. Kavanaugh and party, however, are
following a clew in the North Fork country and a
note received from him states that he believes he is
on the right trail. |
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Last Saturday evening a couple of
sheepherders came in and reported that their camp
near Sunflower Flat, north of Gold Creek, had been
visited during their absence and a supply of
provisions taken, also a few rounds of ammunition. A
rifle was smashed and the broken pieces left in
camp. It is hard to believe this is the act of the
robbers, and by many is taken to indicate that the
bandits have accomplices who are endeavouring to
throw the offices off the track by this decoy. The
general belief of the best posted men is still that
the bandits crossed from Squaw Valley to the Owyhee
desert in the vicinity of Frazier creek and Burner
district and are now well into the juniper country
and safe from capture at present. |
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Last night Deputy Sheriff Rose
organized two posses, one composed of Pete Kelley
and Pete Lane he sent north toward the juniper
country and the other composed of Messrs. Lorentzen,
Coulter and Frank Stone left for Elko to take the
train for Mountain Home, Idaho, to co-operate with
posses from there and intercept the robbers near the
Idaho line. |
