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Show OAPTURED.,. .KILLED i A . Monday evening, Sept. 23, 1878, Sheriff A P. Hardy received a warrant for the arrest of a party who wero driving a bainl of horses from Nevada. Sheriff went to 'Mid-dleton 'Mid-dleton with posse and at 3 50 a. m. on the 24th the party started out with the horses and were ordered by the Sheriff to halt, when they returned the call by a volley 'of bullets. The Sheriff and posse returned the fire, wounding two, (one of which escaped,) captured three of the party and returned to St. George with them. Tames Pierson, Deputy Sheriff of Lincoln Co., Nsv.,and posse, came from Fioche with a warrant for two of the prisoners, W P. Tuttle and Jerry Sloan, and obtained; a requisition from the Governor, and Sheriff A. P. Hardy turned them over to him. . On the 26th of Sept. Dep. Sherifi Pierson and posso started for Piocho with the prisoners. priso-ners. Sept. 2G, 11 p. m. R. C. Lund, Coroner of Washington County, received information that the bodies of two men had been found on the Damron Valley Road, about 8 miles I from St. George. ? Coroner and Jury started on the 27th in J quest of the bodies, and when found, were identified by Sheriff Hardy as being .ttie bodies of W. P. Tuttle and Jerry Sloan. The following was received by Sheriff A. P. Hardy, per DESERETi TELEGRAPH. Hebron, Sept. 27, 1878. 3.30 p. m.J To A. P. Hardy, Sheriff Yesterday evening a party of four masked men stopped me with double-barrel shot gUns cocked on me,, Henry .rifle- on Moore and two men stepped up to the prisoners, jerked them out of the wagon wag-on and told us to travel as fast, as we could go. We went on. Soonf. after heard shooting. In less than ;)talf an hour Moore went back and .found prisoners dead and mob gone. ,This occurred at the black rocks., near Damron Valley about four o'clock yesterday evening sent word to you by D.H. Cannon last evening, tokUhim particulars and to be sure to tell '.you. James Pierson;. The following is the verdict of the Coroner's Jury. Territory of Utah, ' St. George Precinct, f . , Washington County: J ' s-'V An inquisition holdcri St. George mm ; - ,; m St. George Precinct, Washington ! County, on the 30th day of September ;( A.' D, 107-8, before R. C. Lund, Cor- 1 oner of said County, upon the bodies i of W ? Tultlc and Jerry Sloan, there lying1 dead, by the Jurors whose nariies are hereto subscribed. The said Jurors, upon their oaths do say, that on the evening of the twenty-sixth . day of September, A, D. 1878, the persons above named came to their i death l?y gun shot wounds, felonously inflicted by persoi.s to these Jurors ; unknown. ' In testimony whereof the paid Ju rors have hereunto sekt their hands the -'day and year uforesaid. ' . Richard Bentley . Thomas H. Gardner, ' Frank. K, Bentley. 5 Attest; . Rob. C. Lund, , 'I:- Coroner. |