The vigilantes of Montana; Or, popular justice in the Rocky Mountains: Being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture and execution of Henry Plummer's road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West"Dimsdale, Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah)
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The vigilantes of Montana; Or, popular justice in the Rocky Mountains: Being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture and execution of Henry Plummer's road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West"
Dimsdale, Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah)
Criminals -- Montana; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana; Montana -- History -- 19th century; Plummer, Henry Amos, -1864; Vigilance committees
George Ives, Nevada City, Dec. 21st 1863; Erastus Yager (Red) and G.
W. Brown, Stinkingwater Valley, January 4th, 1864; Henry Plummer, Ned
Ray and Buck Stinson, Bannack City, January 10th, 1864; George Lane,
(Club-foot George,) Frank Parish, Haze Lyons, Jack Gallagher and Boone
Helm, Virginia City, January 14th, 1864; Steven Marsland, Big Hole
Ranche, January 16th, 1864; William Bunton, Deer Lodge Valley, January
19th, 1864; Cyrus Skinner, Alexander Carter, and John Cooper, Hell Gate,
January 25th, 1864; George Shears, Frenchtown, January 24th, 1864;
Robert Zachary, Hell Gate, January 25th, 1864; William Graves alias
Whiskey Bill, Fort Owens, January 26th, 1864; William Hunter, Gallatin
Valley, February 3d, 1864; John Wagoner, (Dutch John) and Joe Pizanthia,
Bannack City, January 11th, 1864.
Judge Smith and J. Thurmond, the counsel of the road agents, were
banished. Thurmond brought an action, at Salt Lake, against Mr. Fox,
charging him with aiding in procuring his banishment. After some
peculiar developments of justice in Utah, he judiciously withdrew all
proceedings, and gave a receipt in full of all past and future claims
on the Vigilance Committee, in which instance he exhibited a wise
discretion--
“It’s no for naething the gled whistles.”
The Bannack branch of the Vigilantes also sent out of the country, H.
G. Sessions, convicted of circulating bogus dust, and one H. D. Moyer,
who furnished a room at midnight, for them to work in, together with
material for their labor. A man named Kustar was also banished for
recklessly shooting through the windows of the hotel opposite his place
of abode.
The circumstances attending the execution of J. A. Slade, and the
charges against him, will appear in full in a subsequent part of this
work. This case stands on a footing distinct from all the others.
Moore and Reeves were banished, as will afterwards appear, by a miners’
jury, at Bannack, in the winter of 1863, but came back in the Spring.
They fled the country when the Vigilantes commenced operations, and are
thought to be in Mexico.
Charley Forbes was a member of the gang; but being wounded in a
scuffle, or a robbery, a doctor was found and taken to where he lay.
Finding that he was incurable, it is believed that Moore and Reeves
shot him, to prevent his divulging what he knew of the band; but this
is uncertain. Some say he was killed by Moore and Reeves, in Red Rock
Canon.
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