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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER. THURSDAY. JULY fXCZTZZ 16. 1936 Jacques Rensrd'g w Orchestra Plays At White City crimi --rode south toward Salt Lake City. Meanwhile Ogden citizens formed a new posse to take up the trail, Steve Soppinger, Captain Silvia, Dan Sulli van and Reuben Eggleston forming quartet of searchers, During the morning, Fred Meissner, Jailor and desk sergent at the Ogden jail, received word that the pair had evaded the Ogden men by making wide circuit, and had been seen near Kaysville carrying Winchester rifles across their saddles. , Meissner notified Chief of Police -- After several weeks of negotiations between tae White City ballroom In Ogden and the Western Booking Corporation of San Francisco, it is announced that the "Suave Melody Master." Jacques Renard and bis celebrated dance orchestra will appear at the White City in Ogden on Pioneers Day, - r Friday, July 24. Jacques Renard has been broadcasting over the Columbia network every Wednesday for the past 40 weeks with George Burns and Grade Allen, arid has been taking all of Grade's jokes at his huge size and coming; back for more. Grade recently said she was going "to establish a record in avia tion by making a p flight clear around Renard." ? Renard will bring his 14 musicians two singers to the White Oty Tor one night only, Friday, July 24, thus affording an unexpected attraction at the Ogden Pioneer Days celebration. non-sto- 1 Arthur Pratt at Salt Lake City to X 5, WPA Historical Workers Unearth Story of Theft of Raspberries That Started Bloodstrewn Trail to Firing Squad For Patrick Coughlin - liiViiteiiWiTiliMtiiiiiajM (By Hugh CNeO, Worker and Bryce W. Anderson, of the Ogden Standard Examiner Staff) How the long arm of the law reach ed out for a pair of young men who stole two cases of raspberries from a peddlers wagon, in 1896, and sent one of them before a firing squad in the only legal execution ever performed in Rich county, Utah, is revealed in documents and photographs located by Adolph W. Larson, supervisor for the WPA historical survey at Ran-- . .WPA-Resear- 13 Religious Faiths . Represented la At Fort Douglas Train-Gam- p Thirteen religious faith are repre sented in the Citizens MIKtary Train ing uamp at tort ijougias, 'Utah, a survey made by Lt. CoL, JS. Jt Miller, . Chaplain,; U. S. Army, revealed. The largest .number of trainees come from the L..D. S. church. Meth odists, are second in the tabulation, Presbyterians third and Roman Catholics forth. .Complete results of the survey follows: ;v,v Baptist, 6; Christian Science, 1; Congregational 6; Roman Catholic, 20 Disciple of Christ, 1; Episcopal, 9; Jewish, 4; L. D. S. 107; Lutheran, 2; Methodist, 29; Presbyterian, 24; Unitarian, 1; No Preference, 1. The Camp opened July 6 and will close on; August ,4. Chaplain Miller Is assisted by Capt A. E. Butcher, V '. Chaplains Reserve. ' DEMOCRATIC PRECINCT COM- -' MTTTEE ELECT NEW OFFICERS On July 2 the Democratic Precinct Committee of Tremonton elected the t, following new officers: W. T. precinct chairman; Mrs. Golden Frisbey, precinct chairlady; and Vern Watkins, precinct secretary. The new officers .were elected folBen-ne- of D. B. Green, lowing chairman; Ann Watkins, chairlady; and Clifton Kerr, secretary. Too much weakening of the weak economically will eventually weaken the strong. . Hating the strong never helped the weak. Good Native Red Pine LUMBER w Now Available In Any Dimension i URSEL RHODES Mile East of the Garland Sugar Factory ATTENTION Jack Winn's smith shop is open for business under new management We do horse shoeing arid all plow work -.- - kinds of repairing. dolph. The two young men, Patrick Coughlin, 21, and Fred George, 19, perpe- trated the theft that started this in- teresting and grisly case by "pinching"' the raspberries near Salt Lake City. They were captured by local authorities, charged with petty theft, and lodged in jail. . Coughlin had previously had trouble with the authorities,': .and had served short jail terms for several delinquencies. . well-aime- menpnedentoetlfeejlre., aMttNgepftdMftrtMfcy. DWes . . horse-stealin- far-fam- - - Fleeing from Morgan, the two went over the mountains to a sheep camp in Summit county. The county sheriff learned of the fugitives whereabouts and approached on horseback. He was met with a blast of gunfire. His hand was wounded and the hom of his sad- -' die was shot away. The trail was becoming steadily hotter. Quickly the youths took leave of the sheep camp and headed for a cabin located in the' mountains east of Coalville. ' " Form Posses Word was forwarded to Evanston to arrest the pair. Irate citizens form ed posses and began combing the countryside in search of their quarry, With jail, break, horse theft, and assault with a deadly weapon already added to their raspberry stealing, Coughlin and George were in no mood to be taken by a posse. The man nun ters rode down upon what is now the Jones ranch (near Wyuta on the rtJTeoln.Jwaywhero(he pair had' established 'another hideout. Oacfco We Have a Complete Clock of dolph. On the morning appointed, the fir. ing squad and a company of guards loaded Coughlin Into a white topped buggy and took him to a bleak. area near the town. greaswood-dotte- d There he was strapped to a chair placed on a white expanse of snow, black hood was drawn over his head, and a target pinned over his heart. The grim firing squad took aim at the target, and Coughlin died in a hail of lead the only man ever legal ly executed In Rich county. An early photographer with an apparent eye for news was on hand to take the remarkable pictures accom- ? panying this article. George, freed later, returned to a life and died recently in Park City. For Patrick Coughlin, the only freedom was that ven by the kisadttttAostbabmhl - law-abidin- g, - ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! TO THOSE WHO HAYE AN APPRECIATION OF THE UNUSUAL ! Jeweler Your First Opportunity to Buy Quality Jewelry and Other Merchandise auction WERE TT UrlH IvilCrtfllidfilWflDC GUARANTEED Ssallo Wl StSa t Prices Paid for OHJEl (SQADN Mr lirvin StoM Elevator TT 0 REPRESENTED SatSwcflasr at SATUEipAY, JULY 18th 2:30 P.M. And Will Continue Daily 2:30 p. m. and 7:30 p.m. 'Til the Desired Amount of Stock Is BE HERE ON TIME! Disposed Of .... This Large and Beautiful Stock Will Be Sold Piece By Piece to Highest Bidders for Cash. WE ARE NOT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, but Meeting a Business Situation Boldly and Frankly in a Business Way. 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Whether he had to use much persuasion to induce George to help in the escape will never be known, but the fact is that the two youths managed to break jail and proceed to leave the vicinity of Salt Lake with the greatest possible speed. ' Add Horse Stealing To aid in their escape, Coughlin and George placed themselves in jeopardy by stealing a horse in the vicinity of Morgan. It will be recalled g was a major crime that in the early days. Before the advent of the law in the west, horse thieves were usually summarily punished by stretching their necks with the "hemp necktie." When the people of the territories organized legal forces, they took care to provide heavy penalties for anyone who made free with another's equine stock. So Coughlin and George, transformed "by the horse theft from petty thieves to major, criminals, knew well what awaited them if they were captured. And to prevent that capture they committed their second major . Black- With them, the posse carried two sheets in which to bring back the bodies of the outlaws.;." Included in the group that surrounded the Jones ranch were two men named Dawes and Stagg, another known as "Red" Taylor, and Bob Calyery, the latter an Evanston depthe posse opened uty sheriff.-Whefire on the ranch, Coughlin answered d with shots while George loaded his gun for him. The four men lor and Calvery wounded. The posse retired with the bodies of its two dead members wrapped in the sheets it had brought for the horse thieves. Stagg was shot in the back, and Coughlin later maintained in his defense that Stagg was killed by a member of his own posse.. Again Take Trail With two killings added to their score, Coughlin and George abandoned the Jones ranch and rode horseback across the mountains to Hunts-vill- e and from there down Ogden canyon. They stopped at the Ogden railroad shops where they had a boy buy them a newspaper. Then in the fa bled manner, of all crlminaJs(who re-turn to the semes of Uoriguiaj chargrffra t - crime. i Vi ch .sendhis forces to Warm Springs, where the jailor believed the men could be captured. Chief Pratt filled a patrol wagon with policemen, and accompanied by several mounted officers started out in the direction Meissner had indicated. But the fast moving Coughlin and George reached the Salt Lake City limits before the police did. Inside the city, they rode past the laden patrol wagon and were recognized. Rapid Flight The chase had now turned from to a contest of speed. Coughlin and George separated. The officers stayed on George's trail and finally captured him in City Creek canyon, on the outskirts of the city. Coughlin fled west, but the net was now widely spread, and he was taken - ? " o into custody at Tooele. The pair were placed on trial for murder. George, being convicted only as an accomplice, was sentenced to life imprisonment, later being paroled. Coughlin was . found guilty.: as firing squad. v.;". :j .rA--J Maintaining throughout tZ that he shot in self defense, Fafcf "2 Coughlin carried his ease to the ed States supreme court, but tir body upheld the sentence imposed ty the Utah territorial courts. On December 9, 1896, District Jud Charles H. Hart ruled at Randolph that Coughlin be shot to death by firing squad between the hours of ta a. m. and two p. m. on the followlnx Executioners Silent day. The firing squad was in charge off Albert Dickson, sheriff of Rich coma ty, and consisted of a group of mm picked from Evanston, Wyoming awl Randolph, Utah. Although their iden tity was kept a secret, tt is claimed that at least three of the men are known to pioneer residents of Ran- WATCHES ELGIN - WALTHAM and many other standard makes WRIST WATCHES Both for Ladies and Men. JEWELRY SILVERWARE FOUNTAIN PENS ELECTRIC CLOCKS This Dig Auction Cale Star to on Oattiffday at 20 p. m. and Continue? Daily at 2:30 & 7:30 p. m. 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