Frontier law enforcement

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.1CITY COUNCIL.

  Stub record — front-page Jamestown Weekly Alert item about a **Kelleher** (the print never calls him quarrelsome; that word is from the PDF file name), a Jamest…

• 1885-11-06 — Bismarck Weekly Tribune, p.1The Chinese Driven Out. / The Chinese Exodus.

  Two wire items (columns 3 and 5 of the front page) reporting the violent expulsion of Chinese residents from Tacoma, Washington Territory, on 3 November 1885. T…

• 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—Did Not Surprise Him.

  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 Murray Guilty. / PUNISHMENT LEFT TO THE COURT

  Coverage of the conviction of Thomas Hudson (alias John Doe, "whose true name is said to be Murphy") for the attempted daylight robbery of the Silver Bow Nation…