with the other two men…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

eating their lunch they were invited by Bill Caldwell to stand up and put their hands above their heads. As the request was emphasized by a Winchester rifle the invitation was complied with. Caldwell marched them down the road apiece, turned Plunket loose and then went on with the other two men. After going about a mile Caldwell turned Doyle loose but kept Dougherty going. Doyle and Plunket raised an alarm and soon an armed posse was on the trail. The two men were found about three miles from camp and brought in. Dougherty says they heard the pursuers sometime before they were discovered but Caldwell made him keep still. Caldwell realized his game was up and tried to get Dougherty to promise not to prosecute him. Caldwell gave no reason for his action, but Dougherty thinks that if they had not been in- terrupted Caldwell intended to rob him. Cald- well was taken before Judge Titus Saturday and remanded to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury and Constable Ownby started with him for Silver City that night. Chauncey Nicholson, who was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Tom Kennedy, of Lords- burg, for horse stealing, is in the county jail.