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Show f A2 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Sundance Kid Continued from Al 1860. His obituary in the Dec. 4, 1936, edition of the Uintah Basin Record identifies him as a Duchesne Duch-esne farmer, born and raised in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. It doesn't provide the name of a specific spe-cific town in Wyoming though. Longabaugh was born in Pennsylvania in early 1867, according to the historical record, and moved to Colorado Colo-rado at 15 to homestead with a cousin. He earned his outlaw moniker after serving time in Sundance, Wyo., for stealing a horse and saddle in 1887. The Sundance Kid's association asso-ciation with Utah native Robert Leroy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy, and The Wild Bunch is believed to have begun nine years later in 1896. A loose confederation of criminals, The Wild Bunch was credited with numerous bank and train robberies throughout the Midwest and West. Some, including Sundance, used an area of the Big Horn Basin known as The Hole-in-the-Wall to hideout from posses after their heists. John Barton, a senior lecturer lec-turer in history at Utah State University, said Sundance would have had a healthy geographical knowledge of the Uintah Basin during his time on the outlaw trail. Local history has members of The Wild Bunch frequenting Nine Mile Canyon, and the homesteads home-steads of John Jarvie and Herb Bassett in Brown's Park near the Colorado-Utah-Wyomingborder. "They were well acquainted here," said Barton, who teaches at Utah State's Uintah Basin (USPS 0892-1091) Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah Published weekly at 60 East 100 North, Vernal, UT 84078 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Vernal Express at 60 East 1 00 North, Vernal, UT 84078 OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday ' Phone: 435-789-351 1, Fax: 435-789-8690 DEADLINES: News, legal notices, classified ads and display ads must be received by 5 p.m. the Friday prior to publication PUBLISHER: Kevin Ashby - kashbyvernal.com EDITOR: Patrick Timothy Mullikin - editorvernal.com ADVERTISING MANAGER: Byran Marshall - bmarshallvernal.com ADVERTISING: Jacque Hobbs-jhobbsvernal.com Alycia Johnson - ajohnsonvemal.com CLASSIFIED: Tonya Muse - classifiedsvernal.com , 0 .OFFICE: Harriet Harding j WRITERS: Mary Bernard - mbernardvemal.com .."'':? ' Gary Parker - gparkervemal.com t Tabatha Deans - tdeansverna.com . CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Dana Colovich - editorvemal.com George Long - editorvemal.com PRODUCTION: Heather Crosby Michele Roper On the Web: http:www.vernal.com Email: editorvernal.com 1 mm m mm mm "" "" I MiDscripuon Kates: I Clin and Send tn- In the Uintah Basin Vernal Express 60 East 100 North Vernal, Utah 84078 Out I Address I city Cash or Check only, s APARTMENT BUILDING 6 UNITS FOR SALE BY OWNER Good monthly income; 0 vacancy; near new USU campus. (435) 503-8428 )Xvmti$iM Ml ymm (iff mMim m Itefti Smutty n-t9C Oct) 9De6XD ifim campus and is not involved in McCullough's inquiry into a possible pos-sible link between Longabaugh and Long. "Those guys would have known all the routes," Barton said. "I have personally talked to people who knew them or knew people who knew them, but that's folklore." Historians say Butch and Sundance Sun-dance left the country in 190 1 for South America with Sundance's common-law wife, Etta Place. Place, whose true identity also remains re-mains in dispute, later returned to the United States. It's unclear if or when the two men returned to the country permanently. In 1908, when a courier for a Bolivian silver mine was robbed of the company payroll, he fingered two Americans. The bandits - believed by some to be Butch and Sundance - were cornered inside a rooming room-ing house by authorities and killed in an ensuing gun battle. They were buried together in an unmarked grave that remains undiscovered, leaving doubt about whether the two dead men were in fact the infamous American outlaws. Several individuals have come forward over the years claiming they were Butch or Sundance, or that they spoke to the men after 1908. So far, historians have poked holes in each claim. In her 1975 book, Cassidy's sister, Lula Parker Betenson, claimed her brother visited her following the Bolivian shootout and said he and Sundance were not involved. She said her brother died in the Pacific Northwest in 1937 under the alias William Phillips. "I have never believed they I I I I 1 Yr. $26 - 2 Yr. $48 Out of the Uintah Basin 1 Yr. $42 -2 Yrs. $70 of State -1 Yr. $46 2 Yrs. $80 I Zip4 Sony No Charges Vernal were killed in South America," Barton said, adding that McCullough's Mc-Cullough's findings are "really kind of exciting." "This is prima facie evidence," evi-dence," he said. "It's not, 'Grandma knew somebody who ran into Butch.'" Still, for Barton, confirmation confirma-tion that Longabaugh and Long . are one in the same would be bittersweet, given the romanticism romanti-cism that surrounds the legend of Butch and Sundance. "As the mystery is solved and (Sundance) lives out his life as a poor farmer, probably struggling to make ends meet, raising a whole brood of not-his-own children, that's not as exciting as our imagination might run," Barton said. "It takes that element of the wild and exciting out of it." The remains collected from Long's grave Friday will undergo un-dergo a more refined analysis by McCullough sometime this week. Then DNA samples will be collected at Sorenson Genomics in Salt Lake City. They'll be tested against known samples from Longabaugh's family. McCullough said it could take up to three months before results are available, depend-' ing on the quality of the DNA recovered. "Only on TV do you get results in minutes," he said. Shop A Cop Continued from Al boys "hadn't bought anything for themselves yet." "We're getting stuff for my two stepsisters, my stepbrother, my mom and dad," says Tommy, the older of the two brothers. "Now we just need to get something some-thing for grandma and grampa. Then I think I'll get some Chaotic Cards for myself." Lieutenant Torrey Christo-phersen, Christo-phersen, with the division of wildlife resources, has helped kids shop for 1 1 years, and kept his cool as he helped two young girls shop for dollies and tea sets. "To see the smiles on their faces and the happiness makes my day, "says Christopher sen. "The fun of this event makes my year." Michelle Simmons, human resources director for Kmart, says she looks forward to the event every year. "It's exciting, and we have a great time," she says. "The kids are not at all selfish, they almost always shop for their family and friends' irrstdad of themselves." tdeansvernal.com . Law enforcement officials from flashing and sirens blaring. (Gary mm AM? Express If"' The skeletal remains of William Henry Long were disinterred Friday by a University of Utah anthropologist anthropolo-gist and a technician from a Salt Lake City genetics lab as some of Long's relatives looked on. r ; r . .. rr "k , ..... " - V . .m. ,, ,.-- Vernal City Police officer Holly Dicks helps her young charge shop for princess dolls. , (Gary Parke.rVernaJ Express) , t0 'J y 1 "t ' Si tot --'- .. every agency in Uintah County arrived at Kmart Dec. 12 with lights ParkerVernal Express) FALCON'SIEDGE "Romantic Winter Get-Away" Includes: Room, Gourmet Dinner for Two, Breakfast for Two Nights Available: January 16, ij, 2009 - February 13, 14, 2009 March 20 21, 2009 (Subject to availability) ...-...r,,,.-,., ...m,.,,, ., , .. ,-..,.,-, - , W f p. vet - Ahiimont, Ultib i r U'4 - r i. -1 Utah will alter sex j offender registry SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that information about a sex offender's victim listed in an online on-line directory should not include the victim's gender or age. The justices said that part of a state law requiring certain information on a Department of Corrections Web site violates an offender's right to due process. The court says the information informa-tion implies the offenders are currently dangerous without providing a hearing for them to rebut the claims. Friday's ruling stems from a 2005 criminal case involving Steven Arthur Briggs' refusal to register as a sex offender after he was released from prison in 2002. He was convicted of not registering and appealed, claiming claim-ing the registration statute was unconstitutional. The court upheld the conviction convic-tion and the requirement to publish pub-lish prior convictions, current address, appearance, and other similar information. But the justices jus-tices found fault in information listed under a "target" section in the sex offender registry. "Even if the (Department of Corrections) derives the listed offender's primary target by reference to the offender's past victims, the label is troubling in that it implies that the offender is presently focused on repeating past crimes with similar victims, " the court stated. "Anyone reading the registry would likely conclude that the offender's primary target is the DOC's prediction regarding the offender's next victiih." Briggs' profile lists "female" as the gender of his target victim and "juvenile" as the age classification. clas-sification. A disclaimer on the registry says that posted information does not imply offenders will commit a crime in the future. However, "it intimates that the offenders will commit some kind of crime in the future," the court said. The Attorney General's Office Of-fice and Briggs' lawyers have two weeks to file a petition for a rehearing in the case. If no appeals are filed, the ruling will be sent back to the district court for enforcement. lOllP'h ef o underage drinking penalties SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A state lawmaker is proposing new penalties for anyone younger than 21 who is caught drinking in a bar. Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield, says he will introduce a bill in the Legislature that calls for revoking re-voking the driver license for one year for anyone caught drinking alcohol at a bar. Anyone who doesn't have a license and enters a bar and drinks illegally couldn't get a license for one year. Oda says bar owners are already al-ready punished if someone comes into their club who is underage, but the person who is there unlawfully un-lawfully isn't. He says the kids who are violating the law are the real problem, not bar owners who are trying their best to keep out minors. Oda snys a lot of kids will use a real ID that is someone older than they are to get into a club. |