Edward Hogle

CARSON CITY NEWS

February 28, 1911

STATE POLICEMAN KILLED

Member of Posse and Eight Indians Killed in Bloody Battle Near Golconda

The long expected battle between the members of the State Police and the renegade Indians has taken place and one brave minion of the law has given his life in the defense of law and order.

For days the posse have been searching for the Indians who murdered the four sheepmen in the northern part of Washoe County about the middle of January. Sunday at noon the posse under the command of Captain Donnelley, consisting of fourteen men, came upon the Indians at Kelley’s Ranch and Kelly Creek, about forty miles east of Winnemucca.

Eight Indians have paid the penalty of their crimes and are now numbered with the dead while a squaw and three children are under arrest.

Here a bloody battle took place which lasted for about three hours and resulted in the death of State Police Ed Hogle of Eagleville, who had been sworn in as an officer by Captain Donnelley at Eagleville where the posse had set out on the chase.

When the smoke of battle had cleared away it was found that the four bucks had been killed as were also two squaws and two half grown children.

The Indians fired the first shots of the battle and it was soon seen that both the women and children were as vicious as the men and that all intended to fight to the bitter end. The battle lasted for three hours and was a running fight for a time until the Indians ran out of ammunition and then fought with bows and arrows.

The news of the battle was taken to Elko yesterday morning and a telegram sent to the city by Captain Donnelley notifying the headquarters here of the battle and also that all were well with the exception of the poor fellow who fell as a martyr to his duty.

The Coroner of Elko County left at once for the scene of the battle. It is believed that the Indians will be buried where they fell and the captured squaw and three children will be brought to Reno where they will probably be tried for the complicity in the crime.

Upon the dead Indians and in their outfit, were found all the articles which were taken from the sheep men whom they murdered and proved without a doubt the guilt of the party.

In the party which captured and killed the Indians were Captain Donnelley in command and Sergeants Newgard and Stone of the State Police, with eleven men who formed the posse at Eagleville and vicinity. The party was a determined one and followed upon the trail of the outlaws from scene of the murder on the Idaho Nevada boundary until the moment when the battle started and the party was captured.

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