Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Attacked by Road Agents. [ARTICLE]

Attacked by Road Agents.

[Helena (Montana) speciaU The coach which left here this morning for Boulder, forty miles south, was stopped by five armed men at the top of the Boulder lange. On board were Chief Justice D. S. Wade, District Attorney J. A. Johnson, E. W. Tolle, W. E. Cullen, Judge Chumasero, T. H. Carter, Rev. L. L. Wood, and Sheriff Cameron, of Meagher County. As soon as the robbers ordered a halt, Sheriff Cameron and several other members of the party opened fire, which the desperadoes returned. Charley Warfield, one of the rqbbers, was shot dead, and the others retreated, and took to the mountains. No one in the coach was hurt. Sheriff Cameron received a shot through his eoat. It is believed the attacking party wanted to rescue Neill Murphy, a road agent, now under arrest, who was supposed to be on the coach en route to Boulder for- trial. Murphy, however, was left in jail at Helena. This afternoon two posses of five well-armed men left for Beaver Creek, where they expect to intercept the desperadoes. Sheriff Cameron with another posse is following the trail from the point where the encounter took place. Poet Will M. Carleton was recently married, and has settled in Brooklyn. His wife’s Christian name is Betsy, but they are not reported as “out” so far. Mrs. Fletoheb Harper is soon to be married to her brother-in-law, Mr. James Harper, a member of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers. One of the pretty little parks in Washington is to be named in honor of the late Secretary of the Treasury Folger. Tennyson, the poet, has given Sculptor Sends a cast of his head.