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Gang of Thieves broken up.

--A large and well organized band of counterfeiters, horse-thieves, and cut-throats, in Poinsettia county, Arkansas, was broken up recently through the agency of a military company stationed at Harrisburg. The information leading to their discovery and capture was furnished by one of the gang who had got tired of living in their style. He escaped from the rendezvous, some miles in a large cane break, and making his way to Harrisburg, there told his story — He was taken back as a guide by the company, and sure enough it was as he had represented. The band of robbers were fired upon by the company and a great many killed and the rest captured and immediately hung. Not one out of thirty escaped — the entire strength of the gang, with the exception of two or more out on a trading expedition.

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