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Title: December 2, 1970 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: December 2, 1970 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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rege HR hla A hacen NS EN le A ALOR ILE ABIL SI as Te el eh MN RE APD LE PTTL A DOWNIEVILLE IN Sierra county plays a major role in the Northern Mines. This photo was snapped in the 1800's, 4 ) ~ By Edmund Kinyon comes into play. Behind penitentiary walls he was so docile eby given to the residents of Nevada who have , : andwell behaved as to attract attention. To those who commiselves with a barrel of water and two buckets, ven until Saturday next to comply with the city ffect. H, PLUMMER, Marshal few months to live. Medical affidavits were shown to prove The location is southwest, in the jog between the long tenuous 356, his assertion, Influential persons interceded with Governor part of Idaho and northwestern Wyoming, Bannock is in present rough the files of the Nevada Democrat for John B, Weller. But Plummer resignedly asked only that he Beaver Head country, close to the Maho line, R was from the . 1850's, I was attracted to the official notice might be permitted to “die at home.” Moved to pity, the Gov-_ prospecting which had its inception there that the great Butte s disclosure of the crude means of fire pre. ernor granted Plummer full pardon. copper mines, perhaps a half hundred miles to the north, were Nevada (present Nevada City) as late as 1856, But the health condition of Plummer improved to such to emerge two decades later, re fact that the name appended was identical . extent that soon after his return to Nevada he was reinstated The only sheriff for a hundred miles around had his headf Montana Territory's most notorious outlaws period — the Jekyll and Hyde sheriff of Bans career ingloriously upon gallows which he better, perhaps innocent men, A little further rmed my opinion that Marshal Henry Plumno killed three men inthe course of personal © do with what the papers naively referred to as the “fatal beating of the law. A good talker, he speedily caught the public fancy. pitt Henry Phamaber-of Hemaoek, who shined of a@ man from San Juan,” Whether it was that "man from San The old sheriff -was defeated and the newcomer installed, He ith banditry, were one and the same. Juan” deserved a beating or whether Plummer was acting in gave his name as Henry Plummer. er wrought out curious career in Nevada over _his official capacity, it does not appear that any inquiry was held To quote from a sketch dating from the pioneer days of years from 1852 to 1862, He arrived without . or that Plummer's motives in the matter were ever questioned, . Montana: 852 in search of employment at his vocation The H, B. Thompson City Directory of 1861 lists Henry E developed that Plummer was a gambler, but in the light diy of sitractive poracenitty, be iabareated Plummer as "miner," indicating that his tenure as city marshal of the times that was nothing against him, because gambling affairs and was elected to the position of had lapsed. In October of that year he shot and killed William was looked upon as a respectable profession, only slightly Democratic party conventions his name al“Ryder under circumstances almost identical with those of the inferior to doctor, : lawyer, merchant — that is, if the 's 3 a delegate, At one election he sought the Vedder affair of 1856. For that he was taken in charge by the game was straight. But gradually intimations spread that Sheriff in the State Assembly and was accorded 1875 sheriff. and locked in the county jail. A defense-of justifiable Plummer had still another sideline, that gambling was only a cial streets, : t be considered the strange duality of Marshal td . frequently to the surface that he is accreditnoting the jailer's lapse, slipped out and walked enacted dual roles — professing to be the relentless foe of ig of three men in personal quarrels while casually from the courthouse. A few citizens saw him streaking outlawry, while at the same time directing murderous raids on nsion, if any there be, it can be claimed that © toward the timber along Deer Creek, but they did not interfere. caravans, ranch houses, lone travelers, horseherds, even Indian gs were linked to triangle affairs or gambling Henry: Plummer was never again seen in the town which had camps. As befitted so astute a general, Plummer managed an to more overt, if less flagitious, banditry. by that time become Nevada City. — to keep in the Always, however, he allocated to were aggrieved husbands. et als sh SHU ccertctine te himself the major portion of the booty. the year of the water barrel admonition that dictum of editor of the"Transcript." Nevertheless, the ted his first homicide. His victim was Henry . carelessness of the sheriff's staff is permitting him to escape As it had already borrowed many an item of frontier f more than ordinary prominence.Guns flashed . was soundly berated. ~~ , culture, southwestern Montana borrowed still another custom reled over Mrs, Vedder. Plummer must have ‘During the middle 1860's Bas Montana Territory, was from California and Nevada, the Vigilantes. Out of obscurity } draw, for: Vedder “fell mortally wotnded. didi "be Wk Neovottmnent of Al Oattnors.” likewise tis ta0and figure more bold even than Plummer arose. Soon the was arrested, tried and convicted of murder. pentant center of the gold and, silver placers discoveries Montana Vigilantes (also known as the "Innocents" and the is seatenced him to serve twelve yearsin which med (as to the miners) from the glorified ComStranglers") were spreading terror among the element that _ stoek of Nevada. ‘Those who rushed to the new bonaza took _‘!ved and profitted by devious expedients. ae a oe ty Wo terate es By ae 4 ae pr a yee re “ag te, ee ae a oe oe ae ee Te Pite Rt ey H ne H SE RE F ' aie es ne os ee Ss < OE i ~ 8 —— _ Rights reserved bythe —_—_ Qe vee dare. : — «* .