. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . out. Darnell telegraphed to Gillan at Elm Creek,asking him if he would hold the prisoners at Plum Creek until the next replied that he would do so. Darnell also telegraphed to CaptainMcNamar, an attorney at Plum Creek, requesting him to see what was donewith the prisoners when they got off the train at that city. Plum Creek wasthe home of I. P. Olive, and here he was surrounded by many friends andemployes. The train pulled into Plum Creek about 3 oclock in the afternoon,and Olive and
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . out. Darnell telegraphed to Gillan at Elm Creek,asking him if he would hold the prisoners at Plum Creek until the next replied that he would do so. Darnell also telegraphed to CaptainMcNamar, an attorney at Plum Creek, requesting him to see what was donewith the prisoners when they got off the train at that city. Plum Creek wasthe home of I. P. Olive, and here he was surrounded by many friends andemployes. The train pulled into Plum Creek about 3 oclock in the afternoon,and Olive and his friends were waiting at the depot with wagons, into oneof which the prisoners were immediately loaded, and a start made to Custercounty. Captain McKamar was unable to prevail on Gillan and Olive to waitfor the arrival of Darnell from Kearney, and believing it was the intentionto murder Mitchell and Ketchum, he followed the wagon train for somedistance. Seeing that they were being followed, the wagons separated, butMcNamar kept after the one containing the prisoners until it became so dark. — o o ^ o „ ft £ O J »>^ ■^i- .11 AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 61 lliat be lost the tiail among the hills. The Olive party kept on all nightuntil they met on the South Ix)up, about five miles from the Olive ranch,^^•he^e the transfer of the prisoners from Gillan to Olive took place. Thenames of the men who received the prisoners were Dennis Gartrell, PedroDominicns and Bion Brown. After the delivery of the prisoners to Olivesmen, Sheriff Gillan and Phil Dufrand walked away a short distance whileIhe Olive men started with the prisoners to a place known as the DevilsGap, in a wild canon about half way between the Loup and Wood Rivervalleys, some five miles southeast of where Callaway now stands. Olive andGartrell drove the wagon containing the prisoners, and the\ stopped undera small elm tree. A couple of ropes were passed over a limb and Gartrelltie
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