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| Year | Stories |
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| 1895 | 2 |
2 stories matching sime
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- A Constable, a Cattle Thief, and Five Bullets on the Road to Ritzville
Detective L. A. Conlee arrested Alfred Simes for cattle rustling at Sprague and set out for Ritzville with his prisoner. By morning he was dead in the road, shot five times, and Simes was riding north toward British Columbia.
- A Deputy Shot Dead and a County Up in Arms: The Hunt for the Cattle Rustler Simes
When Deputy Sheriff Conlee was killed by a suspected stock thief, Sprague's stockmen raised a $500 reward, formed posses, and vowed to wipe out the rustlers who had made Rocky Ford their rendezvous.