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.am i . , . c i * ui.iearn IJP”',,. tllt,lib seven foot long, which, d -its j |Jlcy ^‘J^lhlouch the ground, required lor J,c shortened each year.-Lond. Spectator.pedl log twd rhe he-irks l*ild tile had ood oneing flt;»f -Oil vcr (1 arheIn(hete-li-AB4 SUn Bflggca,On the 2nd of last June the Roc Mountain Detective Assocutrun rt-ceiv a.dispatch from sherifl Jackson Fisher, Four's Pomt, Coahoma county, M ie stann^ that a murder had beencommilt at bis town by a ui.iu named Ruswh Uatcs, who liad gotten away, and desiru that lie should be looked for m case ni l coming to Colorado. An answir was ie hack stating thai a stranger likely to I the man wan iu tbu aoutkeru part of. II state, and in a letter dated the 10th ins the sberit1. sent a full description of tldecmg murderer. Superintendent Och P'aceu the matter in. the hands of Wr Wise, and that astute detective ' sent* work. Shortly'alter this a man who the name 01 J. J. Seed was wreslea i jMlver Cliff, because of surne row, ac odged in tail, and from certain nartici , lars regarding hici. Wisemedo up b nd nnnd that this was the individual be wa L‘ar ;gter- .He thereupon wrote to the consta ^ I bio ot the Cliff to hold his prisoner urif he timid arrive and identify him, imjut ig f:aathe detecttve,«te on the, point oidlt; parture he received the news that live had broken jail and jumped the couotn It seems that in addition to the row In which.be. was arrested, Reed waeate, warned for the stealh g of aborsQ in tht .r.rhngbborhood of Silver Cliff, bur nil ct he fforto whereabouts were in tab«' r?41, ^ul 1 iu^rmelton ot him a.At this point he had hireca hlm9Clf some- Texas cattle men as; 9r ^-P^hCT, and bad been sent withsonu w JskMikto Ogalafla Valley, Nebraska. - .Ariel m reaching the valley he reiuaiHedbma s VZTJ 8horl t,me’ nn* then left'’ for a place in about on a line between Dakota and Wyo.I S;ln«V ? fcw dVa ,aler ^tod tor « -eJV2fie w^jc he engaged incenefal farm work on a* ranch. But his n [disposition eon got him into trouble again ,t|^^^thenriocipfl in a fight with a storekeeper. TheUw swoopciUown upon nun, and he wiw brourht ao Sidney for aJW tat, owingto tiio^reat.costofthG *fip. the storekeeper failed to he present at thq. cxamioation. and Reed, who was now positively identified as Mr. Ragsdale Gates, was on the rpoint of being * turnedMountain Detec. rive Association, in the person of officerJJ we, put in an appearance, and R. Gates, -Esq., thrust his wrists through .a.pair \ “■ 2? Denver' Pacific of lanight brought him into Denver. Whi; on the train a passenger recognized • fli prwbnyraa being one of the men in ii.ro-which tjfy men were killed, and it hi been jtdi |altT found out that Gates i wwted for a number of borec stealing ep aodcs. as well as a variety of affair* o other Dtit\tre^-J)enter THbwui. '
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1879
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