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Show - THK STAGE ROBBERY. i . By telegram from Xephi, which will be found elsewhere, it will be seen that the stage from Pioche to this city was stopped on Monday night and robbed some eight miles south of Nephi. There was an audacious coolness about the robbery that is unusual even among this class of criminals, and shows that the men engaged in it were not novices novi-ces in crime. In tossing the blankets to the male passengers and ordering them to wrap up' the little girls,, lest they should take cold, as well an in grumbling that they had to do their work in the dark becaus 'the. stage company did not furnish lights, we have the cool and somewhat comic .side of the picture, and can accept it as proof that the villains understood their business and were practiced .hands. . Later duiormation states that the fif-teea fif-teea hundred dollurs taken from the passengers were in coin; arid that ) udge Biglcr, of Juab county, had dispatched the Sheriff of that .county aud a. posse in purmit of the rubber.-!., , . . . , . The locality of the prime, so elri to j the settlements, Li very Mipito.stivc to the people of this Territory that times arc wit now ns they mice were. With mines owning up all around, nhich attract numerous adventurers, it must 5jc expected that a portion of the new towers who are drawn into the Territory Terri-tory uudci' such circuuisiaoi cn, will be not only ' dishoucsl, but, rccklciM, and daring ermuli f "Upply themselves wherever -llie-y eifi and by any weans no TiJUtter how Tin-lent, Tin-lent, murder itself being viewed a a dual! luntii.-i- by such Tillains, The 1 freedom and salely wilb which travelers travel-ers could pass throtu'h all pans of he Territory, when Indian 1roiibi" did nt thrfidf.ri dunsrer, scciiik to be bro ken in upon suddenly, and passengers by mail stage between the settlements iu this Territory are apparently to be in the same danger of robbery and vio-, lence as if they were traveling over the wild regions of Montana and Idaho. IIow far the rulings that strip County Courts of jurisdiction in criminal matters, mat-ters, with the entire Federal judiciary of Utah shut up in the beleagir . J city of Salt Lake," arc responsible Co;-' this we are not prepared to say : probably Judge Hawley can inform us. 1 i view of the fact, though, that such uatiger exists, it would be well for tr -s to -ccep them-elves well supplied with irms; and if tho coach in which they .oumey should be stopped, and they -hould fire at a pack of wolves ahead of them and accidentally shoot a few "road 'agents, " nobody that loves honesty would grieve deeply over the result. .' . ' ' "'' ':- i |
