caught them they would get into trouble, but…
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but his chief income is supposed to be
derived from horse stealing. During the past
two months, whenever the father was absent
from the ranch, these hounds have been in the
habit of calling upon and courting these young
ladies. They were warned that if the father
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caught them they would get into trouble, but
they continued to frequent the place in his ab-
sence. Last Friday, the father being away on
the round-up, these fiends called upon the girls,
and being unable to obtain their consent to im-
proper advances made them, they induced the
girls to come to Silver City to be married —
Thompson to marry the older, and Staples the
younger one. They came in on horseback, ar-
riving about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. They
stopped at the Tremont house and registered
as F. O. Thompson and lady and J. H. Staples
and lady, and were assigned to rooms 16 and 17.