Show T LEADERS LE DERS OF BAND OF YOUTHFUL DESPERADOES NOW IN CAPTIVITY I i It was a wild at the foot of the i Wasatch mountains A band ot sat around their campfire Desperate vil vii villains lains this band of oC six though their united ages did not exceed over fifty years ears Not one but had not proved his loyalty to the organization oy jy crimes worthy of a Joe Toe Garcia or a Joe Sullivan The weapons they carried showed that they were pre prepared prepared prepared pared to stop at nothing short of ot murder to carry out the nefarious purposes of the federation Each Bach had bad subscribed to the terrible oath which governed them This provided that the member who betrayed the secrets of or orthe the organization should submit to having his body stuck full of o pins Dins Each wore a medal of oC some the leader rejoicing in io a II badge once worn by a confederate veteran and bearing the inscription Confederate IStl to lS 6 i Richmond Va With the oath went the most stringent rules of obedience The name chosen by bythe bythe bythe the association of outlaws outlaw was The Highway H hway Robbers union Plunder of oC all kinds kind accumulated rapidly after the organization in the foothills An Anold Anold Anold old coach near the railroad tracks was WM chosen choen for the inee ns n place after alter the robbers had grown wn bolder bOWer in their opera operations operations operations A feed store at 59 i South Third West street was one of the first places aces marked for looting Here Item little plunder was obtained but the young oung thugs in a arage arage arage rage at obtaining nothing ripped open sacks of gain g ain and generally destroyed things BettT fortune awaited them at a the Salt Lake Stamp company compan Here Boce they secured a shotgun some tackle a ma hammer a center punch a clip some medals and ribbons rl two shield I badges and books o ot silver leaf A paint establishment furnished quantity of af f gold leaf and a grocery store supplied them with large quantities of canned goods But a Nemesis in the form of Guar Guardello Guardello Guardello dello Brown of the juvenile court leading his minions was on their trail One of the leaders felt the pressing need of ready teady money mon A game o of craps had ex exhausted exhausted hausted all his capital and he Ile was des dee desperate desperate In his extremity he sold his trusty shotgun to a II secondhand dealer for a dollar Here the sleuth Brown who was wason wason wason on the track of ot the band found it and was enabled to track the thieves to their lair in the old coach Followed then the arrest of the leaders The chief Leroy ro Corbett was the first taken in charge He lives on East ast Fifth South and though th ugh only 11 years old oid is the most desperate member of or the union He Ite refused to betray betra his comrades but bilt clever detective work worl on the part of the officers resulted in hi the capture of Leonard Powell end and B J R each about 12 U years of or age The three are now at the Uintah school None of or the gang even een when given the third degree would reveal the names of the others though they the freely freel talked of oC their organization The others are supposed to be bc boys of about 7 and alid S 8 years of age The leaders are suspected of or being a apart apart apart part of the famous outlaw band which for foi a time existed at Robbers Roost Roo t In Inthe inthe Inthe the rear of the hotel and mill which was rounded up by the police two years ago |