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.