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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1877
Page
3
Washington dispatches cover Major Reno's remarks on the Little Big Horn battle and Sitting Bull's claims, the Senate battle over Butler and Kellogg credentials, and Sherman on frontier troop needs. Reports detail party maneuvering, adjournment tactics, and the political climate in late November.
Leave and reporting orders are issued for Major Verling KX Hart and several lieutenants in the Fifth Cavalry. Assignments include temporary duties and reliefs at Forts D. A. Russell, McKinney, and McPherson, with inspective duties by Gen. Wesley Merrit and shifts among medical officers at Camp Robinson and Fort Sanders.
The overland westbound express brought the outlaw Duncan Blackburn and a companion named Thos Woodley to Cheyenne under strong guard. Sheriff Carr and deputies confined them at the county jail while Blackburn denied any murder or robbery guilt though he admitted knowledge of certain affairs. Blackburn described his eight years west of the Missouri, horse trading with a checkered past, and claimed to have been in Deadwood and Laramie before capture. He refused to confirm Woodley as Wall, and offered scant details about routes, acts, or witnesses.
On Friday November 23 John F. Babcock was convicted as Rines partner. Mary Olp was found guilty of intent to injure. The court sustained a motion for a new trial for Fonce Rines, who withdrew his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty. Sentence deferred. court adjourned to Saturday at 9 a.m.
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