Theme: frontier_law_enforcement
6 sources.
- 1884-12-18 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.3
A two-sentence local item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that Policeman Murphy was retired from the police force the previous Thursday morning by actin…
- 1885-02-26 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
A one-sentence item: Bob Conchay writes back that he tried to get a button as a relic from a man named Murphy who had been hung by vigilantes under a railroad b…
- 1885-04-09 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.1
Stub record — front-page Jamestown Weekly Alert item about a **Kelleher** described as a quarrelsome Jamestown city councilmember (Thu 9 Apr 1885). Surname Kell…
- 1885-11-06 — Bismarck Weekly Tribune, p.1The Chinese Driven Out. / The Chinese Exodus.
Two adjacent wire items reporting the violent expulsion of Chinese residents from Tacoma, Washington Territory, on 3 November 1885. The first ("The Chinese Driv…
- 1895-09-17 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5HUDSON WAS GUILTY. / The Case of the Would-Be Daylight Bank Robber. / HIS NAME IS TIM MURPHY. / He Was Not Put on the Stand and the Jury Was Out About an Hour and a Half — His Next Surprise Won.
The Anaconda Standard's coverage of the same Hudson bank-robbery conviction reported in the Butte Miner of the same date. The Anaconda Standard's headline gives…
- 1895-09-17 — The Butte Miner, p.6BANK ROBBER GUILTY. / Jury Finds Hudson, Alias Doe, Alias Murphy Guilty. / PUNISHMENT LEFT TO THE COURT.
Coverage of the conviction of Thomas Hudson (alias John Doe, reportedly true name Murphy) for the attempted daylight robbery of the Silver Bow National Bank in …