Show GEORGE CHURCHILL the youthful moab burglar captured OVER AT EUREKA TINTIC A watch spring and knife saw found on his person A scrap of personal history on the night of the election for delegate to congress a burglary was committed at moab grand county mons petersons general merchandise store was broadn into and abent worth of saddles blankets etc stolen A few days later a young fellow named geo churchill waa arrested on a charge of haying broken into the store and stolen the goods he having appeared at a dance with a pair of boots on that wore known to have ben ha received a hearing before justice crapo and wag held to await the action of the grand jury on 1000 bonds about ten days after the burglary a couple of saddles some blankets blan kots and nearly all of the stolen goods were discovered hidden in a haystack churchill confessed that he had helped to aliide liide these goods but denied having had anything to do with the burglary the whole thing had been planned by william gibson and had been executed by george gibson arid jess gibson was net sufficient proof against these three individuals to warrant the magistrate them the malte will probably be by the grand jury grand county not having bood jail accommodations it was considered best to convey churchill to provo to be ilacad in ahe utah county jail mons Pe tereon whose store had been burglarized and a ranchman were deputized to to convey the to prove when the train stopped for a moment at soldiers summit both guards were asleep but not so with the prisoner he wa wide awake he entered the water closet through the door and enado his exit through the window while the guards slept he kept going his absence was not noted until clear creek was reached peterson aud hia companion evidently had not much faith in ability to overtake the fugitive so they came on to brovo trovo where the services of sheriff fowler were enlisted the prisoners had secured a days start and had left nc tracks went back to moab and sheriff fowler went to work on the case on thursday a dispatch ana received from eureka gintic tintic from an officer effect that churchill had been seen and recognized by a gentleman who had been present at the examination in moab the sheriff went to gintic tintic and returned with hia man last night when the prisoner was searched a watch spring was found in the edge of his coat and in hia pocket was a pocket knife that had bec n filed into lie was young in deais but discoveries would indicate that he had been there before alan reporter called at the jail this morning and found churchill comfortably seated in a cell engaged in noring over some yellow backed literature he had no objections to a few moments conversation and when the sheriff had nn locked the cell door came forth looking somewhat like a man who had had a pleasant nap after dinner and yet been thoroughly awakened he stated that he was 18 years of age and originally came from pennsylvania some three or four years ago he had been seized with a mining fever and bad come west with some friends he had been in the parts of colorado the greater part of the time since he had come west his father and mother had followed him and are now living at rico colorado this was tho first of the kind he bad ever been in and he had been led into it by the gib sons for whom he had not the best of feelings now that he was in trouble they had deserted him he hoped that tasy would be ol 01 the crima |