People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — SEVEN MEN SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN MEN SLAIN.

Cattle Thieves and Officers Fight with the Above Result. Cheyexxe, Wya, Dec. 2L—Meager particulars have reached here by mail of the- killing of seven persons in the Big Horn basin a few days ago. The : basin is situated near the Yellowstone park and almost inaccessible from the south daring the winter. Hyattville, | the scene of the trouble, is DO miles from ' Buffalo, which in turn is about 30 miles I off the railroad. According to the ! story Bill Nutcher and Jim Huff went , into the baiin to arrest some cattle : thieves. Nutcher was himself under arrest on a charge of stealing in Fremont county, while Huff, whose repui tation is rather poor, is said to have been a deputy United j States marshal* These men came •across three alleged cattle thieves whom they were after, near Hyattville, which has not more than half a dozen houses. The encounter was desperate from the start and was maintained with rifles and finally with sixshooters. Upon its conclusion not only the cattle thieves but the officers lay dead on the prairie, everybody completely riddled with bullets. According to the same story Ira Walker and Asa Shuck were found at the heard of Norwood, in the same section, with sixty head of stolen cattle in their possession.' Both men were subsequently found shot in the back, but by whom is not known, although it is believed they met their fate at the hands of some officers of the law. Both men were rather notorious characters. Walker was the man who was credited with having killed Hank Lovett en Shell creek last summer. Lovett was a Texan and operated at horse stealing in the Black Hills until the country got too hot for him and then went to the basin.