Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — ASSASSINATED BY RUSTLERS. [ARTICLE]

ASSASSINATED BY RUSTLERS.

Foreman of a Ca tip Ranch Shot Down from Ambush. The rustlers are evidently determined to beat the big cattle men In this section, says a Buffalo, Wyoming, dispatch, declaring they must either abandon their property or employ as foreman only those who bear their indorsement. George Wellman, foreman of the H. A. Blair cattle company, better known as the Hoe outfit, was shot by a concealed assassin and instantly killed on the main road and about thirty miles south of here. The only known reason for the crime is that he has been notified to leave the country and has refused to obey the order. The first news of the tragedy was brought in by Tom Hathaway, an employe of the same company. He says he and Woilman started for Buffalo on horseback. When 'about twelve miles out and passing through a rough, broken country a shot was fired and his horse sprang ahead and ran away with him. While trying to subdue the frightened animal he heard several other shots, and, glancing bacx, saw his companion fall from his saddle. He started back along the road and met Wellman’s horse, which he mounted. He saw Wellman lying in the road motionless, but was afraid he would share the same fate if he approached nearer, so he came in and gave the alarm. There are probably one hundred people in this county, business men and others, who hav,e been warned to leave, and doubtless others will be killed unless they at once seek a more congenial climate.