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Show PLOTTED TO RAID TOWN. Gang of Desperadoes Intended to Rob Bank by Wholeeale. It Is now known to a certainty by oflloera of Carbon county. Montana, that the famous Ilrldger bank robbery In October waa only Intended aa the tint atop In one of the must stupondou i plot In tho criminal history of Montana. Mon-tana. The statement I niado by one In authority, who refuses to allow the use of hla name nt thla time, that tho prosecution will prove when the rase come before the district court that It was Intended by the gang, after the successful robbery of tho Htock Orow. en' bank of Ilrldger, to assemble twenty men In western Carlion county and make a raid on Hod Ixidge, with tho loot of three hank a tho prlxe lu tore. Thla conspiracy, which would have entailed bloodshed and destruction aw. fill to contemplate, was Interrupted, it la claimed, by the fact that tho rubbers were tnlled In thn snuw to Ualney Mr. Donnld'a cabin In Kosebud county, where four uf them were arrested by Bhorlff Puller's pusse. Thla la nut the first time a plot haa been laid to raid Deer ixalgo. Only last summer officers received word that tho Hole-ln the-Wall crowd were on the way here for that purpose. Officer prepared to glvo them a hot reception, and tho desperadoes, becoming aware of thla, turned aside somewhere. |
