Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1884 — Hunted Down. [ARTICLE]

Hunted Down.

[Ogden (Utah) Dispatch.] ■ Last week nine Montana horse-thieves, Jone of the thieves accompanied by his wife |nd three children, successfully “stood off” ‘eight pursuers and got away with fifty head jbf stolen horses, driving them infb Idaho. ‘Another party of pursuers was organized at Eagle Rock, Idaho, who took up the rob|bers’ 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 Rex■burg t a Mormon settlement, the pursuers “treed their game” Friday night En a house occupied by a Mormon named Micks. The pursuing party surrounded the Ikouse and waited for their men to emerge, about 8 o’clock yesterday morning two ol she thieves came out of the house and started for the stables. They were met by a peremptory command, “Throw up your bauds,” 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.