Barney Day, Forsyth Scout
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Barney Day, Forsyth Scout
The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Georgia
July 12, 1883
A COLORADO TRAGEDY
Attacked by Masked Men in a Wood - Ranchmen Fight
to the Death.
Denver, July 11 - From the multitude of conflicting reports constantly being received here concerning the Grand county tragedy it is difficult to get the real facts in the case. The report, however, that a body of twenty armed men had left Georgetown for the avowed purpose of avenging the deaths of the victims is entirely without foundation. Texas Charley, who left Hot Sulfur Springs with Fred Dean for Grand Lake on Wednesday and returned Thursday, tells the following story of the fight, which is deemed authentic:
Barney Day, E. P. Webber and D. J. Dean left Mrs. Young’s boarding house for town and were about twenty paces from the house, while passing a place noted for its pines and rocks. Webber walking thirty steps behind Dean and Day, four masked men jumped out from behind the rocks and pines and shot Webber in the back, just above the hips, the ball passing through the body. Webber cried out “I’m shot” and ran towards Day and Dean and fell before them. The leader of the masked party, a man named Mills, then sprang upon Dean, knocking him down and pounding him over the head with a gun. Day then drew a revolver and shot Mills behind the ear, the powder from the pistol burning his hair. Mills fell on top of Dean. As soon as Day shot the man he ran back towards Mrs. Young’s ice house, turning to shoot one of the masked men who followed him. At that moment a shot from behind struck Day, the ball passing through his heart. He fell dead in the path. Webber was unconscious after falling and died about midnight. Webber’s and Day’s bodies were taken to Webber’s ranch, from which Day’s body was conveyed to to the springs, where, where it will be buried. Mills will be buried at Grand Lake. Dean is at Grand Lake, alive at last accounts. C. Martin and William Redmon, supposed to be the attacking party, have thus far eluded arrest. The latter is beyond dangerously wounded. Sheriff Razor, of Grand county, is in Grand Lake and important arrest are looked for. While the whole county is intensely excited, no violence is anticipated. The Daily Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Friday, July 6, 1883
Page I, Column 1
COLORADO MATTERS
Commissioners and Clerk of Grand county Shot Dead.
A Startling Report.
Denver, July 5,. - A Republican’s special says: At 2 o’clock this morning Governor Grant received the following telegram from Hot Sulfur Springs.
Hon. Governor Grant:
Commissioners and county clerk of Grand county were all shot this afternoon by a masked mob. We, the undersigned citizens request and pray the honorable governor to send at once a company of militia for the protection of the citizens. Those killed are: Barney Day and R. G. Mills countyy commissioners. Mortally wounded: E. P. Webber and D. P. Dean. The telegram is signed by Frank Byers and ten other well known gentlemen.
The governor was undecided as to what to do last night, but will probably forward troops today. The assassination is the outcome of the county seat troubles. The News’ special says: The crime is the outcome of a feud that has existed for years past, only the above result is more serious than ever anticipated. In 1879 the legislature passed an act giving the county commissioners the right to submit to the peoples suffrage the question of changing the county seat from Hot Sulfur Springs to Grand Lake. The proposition was carried by a very large majority in favor of it and the commissioners prepared to make the change. Before they could do it, however the sheriff of the county, who had always opposed the proposition and he would be a heavy loser by the change, refused to allow it to be accomplished, and shut the commissioners and the county clerk in the courthouse, in order to prevent them from making the change. The action of the commissioners was appealed from and the case taken to district court, where the decision was made in favor of the commissioners. The property holders who were the original persons to bring the suit, brought the case into the supreme court, where it was decided that the commissioners had no right, even at the will of the people, to change the site of the county seat. The Daily Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Thursday, July 12, 1883
Gubernatorial Proclamation
Denver, July 11. - Governor Grant late this afternoon issued the following proclamation:
Whereas a murderous assault was on the 4th day of July 1883 committed by several persons in or near the town of Grand Lake, Grand county, upon the County Commissioners E. P. Webber and Barney Day and County Clerk T. J. Dean, which resulted in the murders of Messrs. Webber and day and the serious and perhaps mortal wounding of T. J. Dean, and whereas one of the assaulting parties has been identified as F. G. Mills, now dead, and the remaining parties in the murderous assault being unknown to me: Now, therefore, I James B. Grant, governor of the state of Colorado, in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, do hereby offer the sum of five hundred dollars as a reward for the arrest of each and every person who was criminally a participant with said F.G. Mills in said murderous assault.
(Signed)
James B. Grant
Governor
Atlanta Georgia
July 12, 1883
A COLORADO TRAGEDY
Attacked by Masked Men in a Wood - Ranchmen Fight
to the Death.
Denver, July 11 - From the multitude of conflicting reports constantly being received here concerning the Grand county tragedy it is difficult to get the real facts in the case. The report, however, that a body of twenty armed men had left Georgetown for the avowed purpose of avenging the deaths of the victims is entirely without foundation. Texas Charley, who left Hot Sulfur Springs with Fred Dean for Grand Lake on Wednesday and returned Thursday, tells the following story of the fight, which is deemed authentic:
Barney Day, E. P. Webber and D. J. Dean left Mrs. Young’s boarding house for town and were about twenty paces from the house, while passing a place noted for its pines and rocks. Webber walking thirty steps behind Dean and Day, four masked men jumped out from behind the rocks and pines and shot Webber in the back, just above the hips, the ball passing through the body. Webber cried out “I’m shot” and ran towards Day and Dean and fell before them. The leader of the masked party, a man named Mills, then sprang upon Dean, knocking him down and pounding him over the head with a gun. Day then drew a revolver and shot Mills behind the ear, the powder from the pistol burning his hair. Mills fell on top of Dean. As soon as Day shot the man he ran back towards Mrs. Young’s ice house, turning to shoot one of the masked men who followed him. At that moment a shot from behind struck Day, the ball passing through his heart. He fell dead in the path. Webber was unconscious after falling and died about midnight. Webber’s and Day’s bodies were taken to Webber’s ranch, from which Day’s body was conveyed to to the springs, where, where it will be buried. Mills will be buried at Grand Lake. Dean is at Grand Lake, alive at last accounts. C. Martin and William Redmon, supposed to be the attacking party, have thus far eluded arrest. The latter is beyond dangerously wounded. Sheriff Razor, of Grand county, is in Grand Lake and important arrest are looked for. While the whole county is intensely excited, no violence is anticipated. The Daily Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Friday, July 6, 1883
Page I, Column 1
COLORADO MATTERS
Commissioners and Clerk of Grand county Shot Dead.
A Startling Report.
Denver, July 5,. - A Republican’s special says: At 2 o’clock this morning Governor Grant received the following telegram from Hot Sulfur Springs.
Hon. Governor Grant:
Commissioners and county clerk of Grand county were all shot this afternoon by a masked mob. We, the undersigned citizens request and pray the honorable governor to send at once a company of militia for the protection of the citizens. Those killed are: Barney Day and R. G. Mills countyy commissioners. Mortally wounded: E. P. Webber and D. P. Dean. The telegram is signed by Frank Byers and ten other well known gentlemen.
The governor was undecided as to what to do last night, but will probably forward troops today. The assassination is the outcome of the county seat troubles. The News’ special says: The crime is the outcome of a feud that has existed for years past, only the above result is more serious than ever anticipated. In 1879 the legislature passed an act giving the county commissioners the right to submit to the peoples suffrage the question of changing the county seat from Hot Sulfur Springs to Grand Lake. The proposition was carried by a very large majority in favor of it and the commissioners prepared to make the change. Before they could do it, however the sheriff of the county, who had always opposed the proposition and he would be a heavy loser by the change, refused to allow it to be accomplished, and shut the commissioners and the county clerk in the courthouse, in order to prevent them from making the change. The action of the commissioners was appealed from and the case taken to district court, where the decision was made in favor of the commissioners. The property holders who were the original persons to bring the suit, brought the case into the supreme court, where it was decided that the commissioners had no right, even at the will of the people, to change the site of the county seat. The Daily Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Thursday, July 12, 1883
Gubernatorial Proclamation
Denver, July 11. - Governor Grant late this afternoon issued the following proclamation:
Whereas a murderous assault was on the 4th day of July 1883 committed by several persons in or near the town of Grand Lake, Grand county, upon the County Commissioners E. P. Webber and Barney Day and County Clerk T. J. Dean, which resulted in the murders of Messrs. Webber and day and the serious and perhaps mortal wounding of T. J. Dean, and whereas one of the assaulting parties has been identified as F. G. Mills, now dead, and the remaining parties in the murderous assault being unknown to me: Now, therefore, I James B. Grant, governor of the state of Colorado, in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, do hereby offer the sum of five hundred dollars as a reward for the arrest of each and every person who was criminally a participant with said F.G. Mills in said murderous assault.
(Signed)
James B. Grant
Governor
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