Forty-one Thieves

Forty-one Thieves (1919) by Angelo Hall - The tale of a holdup near Nevada City in 1879, the murder of William F. Cummins and Bed-bug Brown's pursuit of the criminals. Excerpt: "More than thirty-five years have passed since my father, returning from the scene of Cummins' murder, related the circumstances. With Mat Bailey, the stage-driver, with whom Cummins had traveled that fatal day, he had ridden over the same road, had passed the large stump which had concealed the robbers, and had beco...