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LAST of the rustlersthat title fits Tom Dilly as much as any man who rode in the mountainous Green River District of eastern Utah in an age was a major inwhen cattle-rustli- ng dustry. As 'pith most stray characters in that frontier era, not much is known of Dilly. But Don Wakefield of Huntington, who rode and camped with him a good deal, well remeznhers that AS Colt revolver. Also the raincoat he always won. Wherever be went to town, even to a dance, Dilly wore that light grey topcoat down to his ankles. Don says be never took It oft except in his own camp. The Idea was to bide his guns, as g were rustling and tapering off pretty fast at that time. and blustering riders didn't show off so much. In appearance, Billy weighed about 153 pounds, stood five feet geniis' or eight inches and was sturdily built, though short-leggand long of waist, with a round, poker face. Ha told Wakefield be had come from Texas to Colorado, then into Utah. Whether he had killed a man in Texas or not, as rumored. he (lid kM at least one man in Utah, and probably two. Then about the 'end of 1232 he took a shipment of cattle to Denver for Ids partners, Dowd and Ketchum. and forgot to come home with the money. A story that he followed Butch Cusidy's fresh trail - to South America is as good as any, was never heard of tor Tom Dilly quick-trigg- long-bartele- d, er hone-stealin- f ed - , - eoftlin ,, One of the first instances known of him in Castle Valley was early In IlaY of that year, Joe Walker and Johnny Herring went 'ki.led by a posse In the Book Cliffs northeast of Woodside, Dilly's chief $upply point for a while. Two riders in-rIC- , i , , - with them, Sang Thompson and Buzoo Schultz, WWI arrested as accomplicet. While these two were in jail, one of their frequent visitors was Tom Dilly, then of Thompson Springs. As a defense witness, he helped get the tvrolailbirds acquitted. Immediately afterwards, Thomman distinpsonan average-size- 4 guished by idmost a full set of gold front teeth, and who was known to have some moneydisappeared. Some time after this, Dilly joined Dr. Andrew Dowd of Sunnyside, and a man named Ketchum in organizing the Patmos Head Cattle Company. Dilly was the foreman, running their stock in Range Valley in the northeastern corner of Emery County, and on Patmos Mountain to the north. Southwest from Woodside, thousands of Castle Valley cattle grazed conveniently close among remote cliffs and hills of the San Rafael Desert The region was sheep country too, one owner being Steve Chipman, for whom Don Wakefield herded during October and November, 1902. Dilly frequently rode to the sheep camp and stayed overnight with Wakefield and Jim Inglefield, the camp mover. On these visits, despite an outward show of sociability, the Patmos foreman never failed to admonWs Chipman to watch those sheep not to let them get past certain lines. Wakefield carefully observed these warnings, but be eventually quit his iob and went home to Huntington. frtatv days later, Steve Chipman was murdered. He was billed at a time when no one else was near the sheep camp but a boy named Jimmy Brace. Jimmy had suffered a head injury him , , 1"...11::ottacnI'Llalniaotrb:argfl Zailight think - When the shooting occurred in the lonely canyon, he jumped onto his pony and raced through Sunny Seven killed Fifteen?" people knew there must be trouble somewhere. They followed the boy's back trail to the sheep camp and found Chipman shot dead. The Sunnyside constable was Rasmus Rasmussen. a Cleveland man who figured the job was for some purpose besides drawing paycheck He promptly rode out to headquarten of the Patmos Head Cattle Dimpany, arriving in the dead of night. Hearing a horseman coming. Dilly called from his cabin: "Who is it?" It's Rasmussen, and I want you." Dilly shoutect "Well, come on in and let's see bow you do it." Then he asket 'Have you got gun?" "No," said Ras, "I don't need a gcn to get you." Dilly laughed at the man's nerve. He sal& go with you but I won't givs uP DIY VW?' "I don't want you tit," said the constable. "Keep it to protect me." Dilly's cocksureness wiut justified 'by events. At a preliminary hearinig. defending his range rights, testimony of other men backed him no so strongly that he was turned loose without a trial. Apparently others besides Don Wakefield had seen that Sunne long-barrele- d, quick-trigg-er forty-fiv- e Colt! Mack Pete Anderson, for instance. an officer around Price. On one occasion while the Sunny-sid- e coal. tamp was booming, some ruckus occurred in which Mack Pete felt it his duty to emobasize the law. He fired a shot which, through accident or aim, whistled past Dilly as he rode up the street.. 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II 1 -- u ' - , 1., i- . - m113 C.1)t. 1-1-1 41 fun-lovi- ng : - k . , , . ' ,,, , 1 1, ,. ',...;44r At:tkN,ir , 't t N'll','.-:- e. ,,, - lir "No 4., , - ,,,, bp- 1 - t 4 I, 1 A:F : -- - , , OPMC1,1 t411 ert i ,4 - , . t :," I t' ed 1 ,.:'.; . t .. a '; ,, - ' . , . ,:, joined Dilly's. The Patmos foreman blandy rounded up the calves and drove them ahead into his own herd. He gave Don as knowing look and said: "I'm not afraid of you, and nobody else will know about this?' To amPhasiaa the 19ohlt. be let Wakeforty-fivfield handle that Don was astounded to find out bow easy it would fire at the slightest touch. The trigger was jumpy-ho- t! Although Tom Dilly was commonly known to be a rustler as well as a gunman, he enmity glossed it over with a constant show of sociability. He attendedI ball games, horse races and dances in neighboring towns. Once when the amiable, carefree Jim foglefield went to Sunnyside for supplies be got on a drunk which deterred him carnm.trivinswith thb,:ckfooatt Chipman's sheep After ten days, with nothing to eat. Wakefield went after the grub, and Dilly rode in with him. They found the tall, slim Ingle-fiel- d enjoying town life so much that Dilly suggested they all go to a dance in Surtnyside hall. When Don objected, saying be had only his sheepherder clothes. Dilly offered him his own suit. "My clothes don't matter with this long coat on," he grinned. Wakewent'm field wore the t his overcoat At the dance, Inglefield grew more convivial. In a mood, be asked for a gun. Never dreaming what was coming up, Dilly displayed a small calibre pistol to grabbed the Lifponr Inglefield up to the dance hall manager, Gook and pumped four shots into the floor at his feet. to make him The crowd off shrieking women and excited men made for the doors, but it was Tom Dilly, with a bigger gun dangling under his long coat, who chased Inglefield outside and took the Derringer away from him. Then he and ' onto his horse and watched him race away in the darknes& Soon after Chipman's death'. fearing perhaps that their foreman would do worse mischief than kill sheep-meDowd and Ketchum decided to sell out, so they sent Dilly off on the which be cattleielling trip from never returned. It had always been a mystery what happened to Sang Thompson But in 1914 when a short railroad spur was builtI from Thompson Springs on the DatlIGW up to Sego in Grand County, the construction crew dug a skeleton out of a 'halm grave by the old supply trail into the Patmos Head tattle range. The skeleton was that of an average-sized man, with a bullet scar in the back of the vertebrae, and almost a full set of gold front teeth! You couldn't convince in Castle Valley that Tom Dilly, the last of the rustlers, didn't know where Sang Thompson disappeared to. Not that Dilly himself had taken the fugitive trail to South America. He had the proceeds from several carloads of fat beet It was only a .year since Butch Cassidy had skipped to Buenos Aires. and to cap t Dilly was out off a job the outlaw days were over. and there was nothing left to do but take the long, secret trail to somewhere. long-barrel- el , ' " iI Jay ast I - 4;. ;P : f A, II I I 1 , t ' ,, ? ,t1 a , . 1 - ', ' , 1 -- . "1111" - , - ' kW PP , 7 ,.....,,,---,...,..,4- ,, gunman---accidenta- lly . n sight and henceforth made no funher passes at the or otbenvise. It was shortly r before the Chipmanirilling that Don Wakefield had learned why Dilly's gun fired so fast Tho two men were riding the range one day when they came upon three stray calves belonging to the big Whitmore outfit whose range ad- -- - : ., , - , -- 1 , - la leo" litintenike rot halo 4 cowl,. Kai., fasomp4, 011ooin. ' - - Omni Iss. W. S. Pas OIL QOM. Gigot Ompone. hodiummoihre. ...Nab" . , , --,- L .,,,,-- ,t,7,,,itit t r li 1 ' 11 i |