Show THE SHUBTLLFF TRIAL Intense Interest Manifest Parley L Williams for the Defense Thieves and Toughs Two fires three burglaries a sate cracked and a case or highway robbery is pretty good for one night in a city the size of Evanston but such is the record for Monday night At 835 Monday evening the tire whistle startled tho people and it was soon discovered that the blaze as in the direction of the railroad road shops and more definitely located in a flatcar flat-car loaded with old ties standing In the rear of he blacksmith shops The boys soon had two streams of water playing upon the car and in a few minutes the flames were extinguished and the apparatus returned to the hose houses At I4 in the morning the city was again aroused by > the ringing of the court house bell soon followed by tho fire whistle and the shrill scream of the yard engine Flames this time were discovered in the rear of the house owned by Harry Wade on East Main street and in a shed building occupied by Abe Wade One stream of water and five minutes work extinguished this blaze and the boys tired with their two runs returned home WHOLESALE THIEVES On Tuesday mornng the merchants were startled by tho rumor that three burglaries had been committed and Investigation by jour correspondent developed the fact that the store of I Koster had been entered and three overcoats some underwear neckties and tray of watch chains taken in all valued at about 2JJThe The store of Dawson Burd < 3tt was relieved of about fn worth of claro when toe thieves evidently discovered that Mr I Dawson occupied as living apartments rooms leading off from the store Chapman Strongs market was next visited and here the thieves showed their skill or want of skill as cracksmen cracks-men They had taken the cash register from the counter and with a sledge hammer broKen in the bottom when nil they needed to do was to touch one of the keys and Jhe money drawer would have opened They had also drilled n hole fob through the door of the safe at the side of uu uuujuuiuuuu juuu uuu unuuurgeu a small charge of powder which failed to blow open the door They hud then tried to drive off the Inner side of the door but their punch was not long euoughand they abandoned > the job in disgust leaving their tools which where branded U P R H This slatted the theory that they had first set on lire the carload of ties and when the men left the railroad shops they entered and procured the tools left in the mar jet and that they might tire out the citizens completely and pursue their work unmolested hey started the second lire During tho day it was further discovered that they had robbed a sheep herder about midnight at the dopot of iO There is no clue as yet The railroad com anys loss is nominal Wade loses by water daniag about S4 I Koster about 5X0 Dawson Daw-son S Burdett about g5 and Chapman Strong a broken cash register and a sate door TWO ACCIDENTS Tuesdav morning while removing a driving rod from an engine Joe Young dropped a brats boxing upon one of his hands cutting it on at the flat joint of the middle flnger About noon a herder in the employ of H C shurthtf was brought into town with his right leg broken below the knee by a horse throwing him and falling upon him THE SHURTLIFF TRIAL About dark Tuesday evening the arguments closid in the trial f Hiram Shurt lift for killing a calf belonging to Joseph Early of Fort Brldger and the case went to the jury This is the first of five indictments against bhurtlin for ki 1 ng stock on the range and stealing cat tie and sheep The prosecution is conducted by Judge S T Corn assisted by J H Kyckman and J C Haum The defense is managed P L Williams of Salt Lake city Mr Williams has been before our people before and is acknowledged to be an exceedingly tine lawyer and speaker but tho audience of the court room universally declare that in Judge Corn he has met a foeman worthy of his steel as Judge Corns Corn-s pronounced the ablest man at the bar of Wy oming CONVICTS Wyoming is the paradise safebreakers and burglars The man who broke open the post office > sate here u month ago waa sentenced eighteen months and the one who brokr into the postoflice at Green River about the same time leceived one year and a day all by United States Judge River of Cheyenne PERSONAL J F Ludin has returned from Cheyenne after an absence of a week C D Clark has been to Rawlins for three days on legal business C Beard is about again after a two weeks illness ill-ness The leading stock growers of growers this section are putting in their time at tho court house watching watch-ing the trial or H C Shurtliff for cattle depre dations V EVANSTON Nov 10 1891 |