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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1927
Page
2
The Vigilantes formed in Virginia City Montana in fall 1863 to protect law abiding residents from road agents. Henry Plummer served as sheriff and led the gang later hanged by Vigilantes in winter 1863 64.
A reminiscence recalls the vigilante era in Helena Montana from 1868 to 1885 focusing on Don Murphy alias Redmond, the Hangman’s Tree at Dry Gulch, and the capture by Johnny O’Neill and deputies J H McFarland and George Bradshaw. It recounts Redmond’s escape and final execution in January 1885 plus a memory of a boy observing the era and a nighttime capture at Winston.
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