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Show UTAH OUTLAWS. (Grand Junction Sun.) . Sheriff . Ed Beeler of Apache county, Arizona arrived in town last night over I the narrow gauge from Mancos, where he got news of the killing of Sheriff I Tyler and. Deputy Jenkins by a band out outlaws, murderers and cattle j thieves whose trail he had been fol-! fol-! lowing ever since the 26th of March. As soon as he read the descriptions of the horses, rifles and accoutrements of the murderers, he knew at once they were the band of live men whom he and posse engaged in a running fight near Springerville, Ariz., on the 26th of I March. At that time there was a band of seven rustlers operating in the vicinity vicin-ity of Springerville. Beeler arrested two of them for cattle rustling, and; shortly after a wan ant was sworn out '' for the arrest of the remainder of the j outfit. Beeler has seen all of the band that killed Tyler, and can identify all j by sight and three by name Capehart, Black and Todd Carver, the latter be- I ing minuo the forefinger of his right hand. . On March 2G Beeler. with a posse of four, rr.et these five men in the open prairie country near Springerville, one j of the posse being .1 cattle-owner who r had suffered at the hand3 cf the rob- bers. The sheriff advised delay in at- j tacking them and the sending lor rein- i forcements, but the cattle-grower was for immediate fight, and the ball opened ! at once, ana tncj-e was a running light for over twenty- miles. Two of the robbers' rob-bers' horses were killed, and one of them received a bail across the stomach. stom-ach. In the meantime another posse had left Springerville, in which were two young men. named Lesueur and Gibbons. By the following day they had struck the trail of the lleeing outlaws, out-laws, but by some unfortunate circumstance circum-stance had missed the sheriff's posse returning to town. Of the second posse all finally returned to Springerville but Lesueur and Gibbons. They pressed the quarry close, and finally fell into a well laid ambush. The robbers waited until they had approached to within twenty feet of their cover, and then shot xth through the head. Then they mutilated the bodies by shooting in a horrible manner (this same thing was-done was-done to the bodies of Tyler and Jenkins ' last Saturday). When the sheriff re-j sumed tho chase the next day he was ! not long in finding the bodies of Le- sueur and Gibbons. This was March 27. From that day to this he has never wearied in the effort to bring the murderers mur-derers to justice. . t Accompanied by two deputies, he drove the gang into old Mexico, back through New Mexico, up through southern south-ern Colorado, until they again made themselves notorious by killing Tyler and his deputy. Whn the chasp was near tho line of Old Mexico the robbers rob-bers killed in the coldest kind of blood an innocent old prospector, whose grub they wanted, and who happened to know one of the party. Beeler then ran them across the Navajo and Zuni Indian In-dian reservations, and at Duncan, N. M., he was close enough to them to give warning to Scr.rbel at Lordsburg, the AVells-Fargo special agent, and one of the most daring and successful man-hunters man-hunters in the west. Scarbel immediately imme-diately took steps to intercept them, and so accurate wa3 the information he had received that on the following morning he and one deputy ran into the killers not far from Lordsburg. They were intrenched behind rocks, and it seemed the very height of foolhardi-ness foolhardi-ness to attack them. Scarbel's deputy ciaiiaitru iu I L11U I il , 1J u I lit: would listen to nothing. He had hardly gotten within shooting distance when a bullet from Coueliart's 30-50 snuffed out his life. The deputy fled and is alive to tell the tale. Beeler again took up the trail, unwearied in the chase, and with a grim determination to run them to earth. He informed a Sun reported today that every place the bandits stopped for refresnments or to feed their horses, they changed a $20 bill, and that at Dolores, a week ago last Sunday, they ate breakfast and changed a bill of that denomination. It Was at tho crossing of the .San Juan river that Sheriff Beeler' lost the trail and experienced a delay that allowed the pursued to gain time and get over into the country north of Thompson's via .Moab. For three days he was compelled com-pelled to lie at the crossing of the San Juan, on account of teixifie rains. At that time he wrote a letter to Tyler, informing him of the situation and telling him to look out for the five. (This letter did not reach Tyler in time. It was received the day after his death.) Sheriff Beeler, in concluding a talk with a Sun reporter, said: "These 'five fellows are tough people. I think now they number six, as one of the fellows I arrested at SpringervillV wa3 turned loose. His name is Low. I think he has joined them by this time. They had seventeen head of horses when I first got after them.. -When traveling they always leave one man a day be- hind to keep tab on pursuers, if any. i They have the latest improved guns, the 30-40 Winchester, which shoots the Krag-Jorgenson bullet. I have here a bullet that was fired through a tree at inc. X afterward tried to reach around the tree with both arms, and couldn't do it. Each one of this gang carries a canvas bag full of cartridges on the horn of his saddle. In our running run-ning fight at the start, the outlaws showed plenty of nerve. When their horses were killed they quickly changed to fresh ones. I know that I hit one across the belly, as I found on the trail '. the bloody rag taken from the wound. J But he is st,ill with t,he gang. When they crossed the river at Fruitland, three' of them took the ferry; the other ' two shoved their horses into the river, which was running bank full, and ' grasping their tails, were landed safely on the further side. I remember that ; Scarbel, the detective killed near ' Lordsburg, had Capehart arrested three years ago for robbing a train on the Atlantic & Pacific. Capehart got off clear,, and swore then he would kill Scarbel '.before he died. He has done it, and killed a brave man, too. "The rewards on the heads of these five men now amount in round numbers, num-bers, to. $15,000. The rewards are offered of-fered by Grant and Apache counties, Arizona: by the Wells-Fargo company and by the Diamond) C. .Cattle company I of Arizona; also -by the governor of Utah. I am making what effort I can : ' to join one of the posses in pursuit. I : have wired Governor AVells of Utah of : my wishes. In regard to the prospects , of overtaking these fellows, I would say that I consider the chances slim. They have a good start. They can get fresh horses. There are other outlaws to befriend and assist them. The chances are against the pursuers, but they have my heartfelt wishes for their success. I have stuck to this chase as much for satisfaction as anything else. Lesueur and Gibbons were my personal per-sonal friends, and they lost their lives in a w-ell-meant effort to assist me. 1 would have liked to avenge their deaths. My plan was,, had I ever come up with these killers, to ride around them and meet them as they met Lesueur Le-sueur "nd .Gibbons. That is the only way to make a successful clean-up of that kind of cattle." Sheriff! Beeler is a nervy-looking man nearly six feet tall, and physically seems to be as hard as nails. He has a calm, deliberate manner of speaking j that impresses one that he means all he says. He has borne the expenses I of this chase extending over hundreds I and hundreds of miles out of his own j pocket, and ' still considers it money I well siicnt. |