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The Saga of Henry Plummer Book 1 by Sven Skaar (PH 3-1) (1959) (97 pages)
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json of Marysville and Captain
mer knew what he wanted and
what he must do as he fingered
the duplicate jail key in his pock-.
st. “I'd better go and get a bracer,” he said. ‘Want'a join me?”
“You know I don't care much
for the stuff, Henry. You go
ahead.”’
Walk Out of Jail
Before the trial of Webster and
his cronies began and just on the
night before shot-gun messenger
Dobson was to have had a look
at Farnsworth, the robbers walked.
out of jail and disappéared.
Telling about the jail-break around town the following day, Plumer would shake his head and
say, ‘I don’t understan’ it. I saw
Jehnson turn the key in the lock
didn’t know better I'd call if an
inside job. I don’t understan’ ittoo damned bad this happened to
the Marshal!’
Bhe townspeople shared that
opinion, they would néver doubt
the integrity of David Johnson.
And most of them considered the
escape a boon. It would save the
county an expensive trial of a few
petty thieves who certainly would
never again dare to operate in
the region.
Sheriff: Wright was inclined to
agree, though he regretted Dobson had missed a chance to look
at Farnsworth. But when the news
reached him of the capture of
most of Tom -Bell’s gang at Mormon Island on the American Riyer above Folsom City, he forgot even about Farnsworth.
Big Haul Made
Brown, Gristy, the Walker brothers George and Cip, Nicolos Andora, and Al Newton had been
arrested all at the same time
in a raid by Marshal Jim AnderBarclay of Sacramento.
. Tom Bell himself had not been
with his gang. The posse had first
‘ridden to the Western Exchange
‘hoping to find him there, but the
hotel was closed, and Mrs. Hood
and her three daughters were
gone. Then the posse had surrounded the California House near
‘Auburn — but no Bell.
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Tt was soon rumored in Marysville that three men, one of Re bs
was identified as Bell, had ridden eastward on the wagon road
to Ophir, Marshal Anderson immediately expressed a letter to
Auburn for Sheriff, Henson of Placer county, asking him to” he on
the look-out for the three,
Henson and two deputies rode
out to a notorious tavern called
‘the Franklin House. Three horses
stood fied to the rail. The posse
. should have hobbled or led the
horses away, but instead, the officers burst into’ the tavern and
surprised the fugitives who were
eating dinner.
Before Henson could order them
to surrender, the bandits covered
the posse with their guns. Then
Bell also made a mistake; with
only escape in mind, he failed to
‘disarm the officers. He, Ned Conners and ‘a fellow known as Texlas made a.run for their horses.
Connors Killed
Henson and his. men rushed
outside and opened fire. Struck
by several bullets, Conners slid
from his saddle dead, while Bell
and Texas galloped away unharmed on the road leading into the
Southern Mines of the Mother
Lode country.
Now it was Henson’s turn to
'express a letter, a letter of particulars to Sheriff Mulford of Calaveras county.
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Mulford was a trained manhunter, deliberate, thorough and.
relentless. He picked eight trusted
men to serve with him and Under-.
sheriff Joe Belt, an equally €X-,
perienced law enforcer, to search
every inch of Calaveras county,
for Tom Bell.
.
‘And Mulford has a hunch where,
to start looking for him. A short)
time before, a women who called
herself Mrs. Cullers had bought!
an isolated ranch on the Merced
river. She had brought with her
three lovely red-headed daughters, one of whom might be Tom
Bell's sweetheart; and Mrs. Cullers might be Mrs. Hood of ‘the
Hotel on the Sacramento Nevada
City stage road.
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