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FEBRUARY 21, 1834.The Stonevllle Tra;jelt;I.v.Tbe Miles City papers contain particulars of tlic fight near S tone vi lie between the Deadwood deputies and the desperate cow-boys or rather plainsmen. The guard in charge of the prisoner Pruden had not arrived, but (.'apt. Willard and his posse halt;l come to meet tjicm in obedient to information that a rescue would lie attempted. The account says that at 8 tone vi lie Willard's party was met by George Axleby, Kid Brown and Campbell, all desperate characters who attempted to prevent the re-inforcement from joining Pruden’s guard. Then ensued the fight in which O’Hara was shot dead, a cow-bov named Cunningham who was assist-• oing Willard shared a like fate, one ot the Willards was slightly injured and an-other cow-boy named Jack Harris mortally wounded. Axleby and Brown fled and Campbell ran into the brush, his horse having been killed. lie was after-wards decoyed out by the promise of a horse and shot dead. At last reports a strong force of stock men headed by the Dead wood officers were, searching for I r Brown and Axleby who is represented as | ■im the villain of the tragedy and as being “the Jesse James of Montana.” Such is a synopsis of the account of the deadly encounter. It does not make anything clear regarding the causes which led too nthe collision and further information may show that it did not present as many fatuities as are here enumerated. It is moreI #*-•' * I f .;»•probable than otherwise that the tight grew out of au attempt on the part of the i officers to capture Axleby and his com-pauiou horse-tliicves, and that the true ac- j he I- j count lias been tortured to make it app€ar j w£ that a gang of desperadoes set upon the officers.f.U “IIvrth
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The Daily Enterprise
Livingston, Montana, US
Thu, Feb 21, 1884
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