Show terrorizes citizens of sandy A few days ago a crowd of salt lake toughs thugs and jailbirds jail birds headed by hyrum cassady who recent recently ay escaped from the city prison descended upon the peace peaceful ful village of sandy and began stealing right and left at first they con on ducted their operations quietly but on fri friday day afternoon one of the gang procured a keg ot of beer and when all had bad imbibed freely they became reckless three of them went into the coop co op store and stole two pairs 0 of f pants and it was decided to make a general raid on the town that night one of the crowd not quite so vicious vicious as the rest warned the citizens and this reaching the cars of the thieves they set upon the man who had betrayed them beat him brutally and drove him from the town GIVE BATTLE by this time it was rumored that the gang intended to set fire to buildings ings and the little town was wild with excitement the citizens organized gani zed and after quite a battle succeeded in arresting five of the fellows who were locked in a freight car sheriff mcqueen was sent for and he arrived on the scene with doe king shortly after 11 on friday night alid was afterwards joined JO ined by deputy sheriff obrien FIRED THE CAR the officers captured three or four more of the toughs and succeeded in holding the whole gang although they the y set fire to the car and cut a big hole in the side of it ALL SENT UP yesterday morning they were tried before justice william H wilson at sandy and were sentenced as follows hyrum cassady six months month slathe in the county jail and 15 fine john ross rosa sixty days imprisonment and 10 fine joseph doyle three months imprisonment in and 10 fine john kelly no 1 four months imprisonment and 10 fine jim harvey thirty days imprisonment imprisonment and a ad 10 fine lawrence 0 Herron three months imprisonment harry ross two months imprisonment the eight prisoners were brought to the city later in the day and are now in the county jail they are the toughest lot ever gathered in here on one roundup round up |