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The Rich History of Colorado's Fourteener Country
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The Murder of Judge Dyer
The few who struggled to maintain law and order in early Fourteener Country frequently paid the price.
In the summer of 1873, a long standing dispute over water, which had originated a year prior, resulted in the cold blooded murder of Judge Elias Dyer. His own writing, and the events leading up to the outrage were covered in the Denver papers, as well as local Lake County papers. His tombstone (now situated in Castle Rock, Colorado) reads:
A victim of the murderous mob ruling in Lake County. I trust in God and his mercy. At 8 o'clock I sit in court. The mob have me under guard. I die for law, order and principle:
Although it was common knowledge who the murderers probably were, there were no arrests ever made. Judge Dyer's father, learning of the murder, said later in his book:
It is not likely they will ever in this world be brought before any tribunal, save that of their own consciences. But murder, unlike debt, is never outlawed.
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