Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — Hunted Down. [ARTICLE]

Hunted Down.

[Ogden (Utah) Dispatch ] Last week nine Montana horse-thieves, one of the thieves Accompanied by his wife and three children, successfully “stood off” eight pursuers and got away with fifty head of stolen horses, driving them into Idaho. Another party of pursuers was organized at Eagle Rock, Idaho, who took up the robbers’ trail and captured a man and his wife and children and three horses near Camas. Following the trail of the remainder of the band up Snake River Valley to Rexburg, a Mormon settlement, the pursuers “treed their game” Friday night in a house occupied by a Mormon named Ricks. The pursuing party surrounded the house and waited for their men to emerge. About 8 o’clock yesterday morning two oi the thieves came out of the house and started for the stables. They were met by a ‘peremptory command, “Throw up your hands,” a request that was immediately obeyed, but one hand of each of the robbers contained a murderous six-shooter. Before they had time to use their weapons one of them was shot dead and the other captured. The remainder of the party surrendered and will be taken to Montana. All of the stolen horses except five were recovered.