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136 MAY 15 & 18, 1866 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
NEVADA, May 15, 8:40 p.m. The San Juan stage, with six passengers, was stopped this
morning about half past four o’clock by three robbers, masked. They blew open Wells, Fargo &
Co.’s treasure box, and took from the same seven thousand nine hundred dollars. None of the
passengers were robbed. As soon as the stage arrived in town, word was sent to Sheriff Gentry,
who immediately started with a posse in pursuit of the robbers. The posse separated near Mills’
ranch, about three miles from town. Not long after separating Steve Venard, formerly City
Marshal, got ontheir track and followed them to Myers’ ravine, about two miles from where
the robbery was committed. Just as he crossed the roavine he looked above on the side of the
hill, and about twenty-five feet from him he saw the head of one of the robbers, who was ready
to fire. Steve leveled his Henry’s repeating rifle and fired, the ball striking him in the left side
near the nipple, killing him instantly. Robber No. 2 then raised his pistol to fire, but Steve being
too quick for him fired, hitting him under the right eye and killing him instantly. Robber No. 3
then started to run when steve fired but missed. Firing again, the ball passed through his heart.
Gentry and his posse secured all the treasure and deposited it in town. The Coroner is now
holding an inquest on the bodies. The robbers’ names have not yet been ascertained.
PROBATE NOTICE.—AII persons having demands against the Estate of Enoch Green deceased .. . Sarah
Davis, Executrix of Will of Enoch Green, dec’d.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 and THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1866 issues missing
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1866
ITEMS IN REGARD TO THE ROBBERY.—The bodies of the robbers were buried on Wednesday
last in the graveyard on East Broad street. Sam. Henry, who received the articles of which he was robbed
several weeks since, made Steve Venard a present of fifty dollars. The latter refused to accept it, but
Sam coerced him. Hamilton, owner of the Telegraph Stage Line, heard of the robbery and killing of
the thieves, in Auburn. He immediately telegraphed to Bill Davidson, agent in this city, to get all the
champagne necessary and have it drank to the health of the boys who killed the — [sic] thieves. These
orders were fully carried out by Bill.
It has been ascertained that Jack Williams was the man who attempted to rob Smith in Grass Valley
several weeks since. Smith run and two shots were fired at him, but he escaped with his money. This took
place in the heart of the town.
Some forty persons visited the scene of Steve Venard’s encounter with the robbers on Tuesday.
Some idea can be formed of the inaccessibility of the retreat selected by the robbers, when it is known
that out of the forty who went to the spot, at least a dozen “fainted by the wayside” in reaching it , and
had to be helped out. One man hired Chinamen to pack him out. It took nearly four hours to get the
bodies to the nearest point on the road, and in some places the bodies had to be dragged. Had Venard
been killed, it is hardly probable that his body would ever have been found. Many of the granite boulders
on the hill-side where the descent was made were loose. One, weighing about 500 pounds, was accidently
[sic] started from its place and went bounding down the mountain side, making leaps of fifty or a hundred
feet at a time. Several persons were below it but got out of the way by scrambling along the mountain
side. It bounded entirely over the body of the robber that lay on the hill-side and buried itself in the bed of
the creek a hundred yards below.
AN OLD OFFENDER.—We have a full description of Moore, one of the robbers killed on Tuesday,
from a letter sent by Deputy Warden, J. J. Green, of the State prison. His name was George W. Moore