| Show interviewed AT THE TAIL JAIL coughlin tells tho the story of theft wanderings george Is reticent the young bandits were stretched on cots in their cells last evening when a reporter asked them for an all account of their adventures coughlin arose and framing his face in the hac opening ot of his cell door complained that the newspapers had not given mm min and his partner a fair deal and expressed a disinclination to talk but ne was soon volubly spinning a tale ot of his experiences that had many fairy details throughout he chuckled over the he way in which the two had eluded the officers and when he was especially amused broke out into merry laughter ile he manifested a shade of regret tor for the killing ot of stagg stage and dawes at the cabin near wasatch 1 iut ut his other offenses tenses ot only inspired him with pride taking up the story at the time of his departure with george and bruce for wyoming on thursday july coughlin proceeded we started for wyoming because we thought it might get warm for it us 8 here and we wanted to get away for awhile we had come down from park city a few days before with two borses one of them we took from my cousin but helas he was as much mine admy as my cousins for I 1 had paid for feeding hi him in rhe fhe kid coughlin and george call each other kid rode down on my cousins horse and I 1 came on mike OM Oll alleys horse I 1 took mikes iron gray horse and I 1 am proud of it for alike is on an old stiff just say in the tribune im proud of it we took bruce with us wh when en we stalled for wyoming but lie he weakened when we had been gone halt half a day then rhen we turned him back no sir we hold him up we just told win him to hand over what he had and he be did it 1 PASSING THROUGH PARK PARI Z CITY coughlan Coughl ln then told of going through park city and declared that he and G george eorge passed city marshal 0 odonnel donnell and that he knew them but did not dare attempt their arrest maybe lie he thinks I 1 know him said cough tin wearing rod red whiskers to disguise himself with coughlin complained that sheriff Fl arrington did not approach him properly at the time of the encounter in which the sheriffs check was g grazed by i a bullet 1 I want to shoot itar ilar ring arington rington ton said he lies the bapst friend ever had in park city lie did not tome ome vp up toua tight light it if he had said ald come out tussle I 1 wont shoot we would won ld have surrendered lie ile calls me tussle ive been on several trips with him but he started to shoot and why I 1 fired at him tint 3 wanted to apologize to him for it and I 1 did apologize today loday to lo day I 1 was excited when I 1 shot at him as I 1 had just waked up the kid ran off into the timber STORY OF T THE AHE KILLING coughlin then gave his version of the killing ot of stags stagg and dawes we were asleep in the cabin when they commenced shooting on art us why they come up tip and ask us to surrender but they they just commenced sending bonding the into the chanty the bullets whizzed round our heads and the kid said we were gone now sure hut but I 1 told him we must light for our lives so we started in I 1 did the shooting and the kid did the loading when we came out of 0 the cabin the two fellows who were not shot ahot ran like deer for their wagon and made oft off then I 1 walked toward dawes who was waa lying on the ground the old man was waa auve lie ile reached tor for his kun gun which was a couple ot of feet from hint him but I 1 told him not to balse alac it or id tire then lie be let it so go and I 1 went up to him he ha was shot through the lungs end and there was wa blood in his hi mouth iskot I 1 got some water and washed out hla his mouth and gave him a drink ile he said he was sorry they had il fired red on the cabin they said they have dono done it it they had known only the two of w were lit in the cabin they thought there was a hors anil iiii III iiii loo the oll ohl man aall sald lie aa gllnn tin 3 it na for shooting it at them I 1 know stagg was dead until the md kid called my attention to him I 1 never aimed at stagg perhaps one ot of the deputies who were on the other side of 0 tile the cabin from him shot him I 1 had nothing against stagg stage lie he knew me when I 1 was a little bit of a kid but lie he had no business to come at us that way after they started shooting we had to tight fight our way out when we did come out of the cabin and the two deputies were running away we might have put bullets through them but we thought we had done enough of 0 that kind of 0 work and we were no longer in danger and it necessary to do any more shooting DELAYED THREE HOURS we were delayed about three hours in getting away because our horses had strayed off before we left we kavo gave dawes water three times and changed him from one position to another several times mes so he could rest easier ile he suffered much pain but lie he found no fault with us its it if we had had a pencil and paper id have asked him to write out a dying statement setting us right and would have pinned it om i n ills his breast before we started he told cold us hov bov to travel to reach ogden canyon lie he advised us to hurry off as a big posse would soon be after us when we came away he was still alive and we said goodbye good bye to him an and d started 0 oft if TALES OF VARIOUS CON consistency Coughl ln then told of the ride to ogden den a feature of which was a meal at a sheep ranch where they left slices of bacon which the deputy sheriffs she ritts ate when they reached the place later after a contemptuous reference to ogden because they had not been molested during their stay in that city on wednesday last coughlin Coughl ln reached the warm springs meeting with the police the thought of which amused him immensely men sely ile he has told different stories of the meeting and what followed on the hills of city creek canyon on this occasion he said that he commanded the police to drive on and that they dahi da 1 h I away up the road at a furious pa in n a conversation with detective sh earlier coughlin had maintains tali A that he and george had separated on leaving the cabin at which the killing occurred and had not come together again until they reached mur tay lay saturday night after insisting that this statement was true and that he was not at the warm springs he called out jocularly to the detective say sheets why did you come out to meet us with the lights on the wagon 9 CITY CREEK AFFAIR passing to the affair on the mountain ln side north of city creek coughlin Coughl iii told rhe tribune reporter that when an I 1 officer hailed them and asked them to surrender they responded with one shot and then ran down into the brush clien he said they came down along the creek through the brush and entered the city in the afternoon walking boldly through the streets ile he said hey aey were accosted by an aca acq acquaintance uain tance in the canyon road who gave them a of newspapers he claimed that thereafter they were supplied with the city newspapers regularly and that friends kept them advised ot of the movements of the officers ile he said they spent thursday night in bed in the st elmo and friday night in ft a friends house on eleventh east SLEPT IN THE CEMETERY the statement that they stopped at the st elmo Is not believed A more likely story Is the one told by george to detective sheets that they crossed city creek canyon went over the hills to dry canyon and went on down to ailt olivet cemetery reaching the latter about dark and spending the night theta it is reported that friends who went there ostensibly to decorate a grave met them in the cemetery george told sheets that they spent friday night on jack gilmers ranch at eleventh east bast and ninth south coughlin Cou ghUn in detailing their movements up to the time they stole fresh horses at murray on saturday night was not at all specific lie he claimed that they had roamed about the streets at will wil 1 under the very noses of the officers ile he said they kept away from the houses of friends both here and fit at mill creek because they feared they were being closely watched the officers he said were on the right scent at z mill iiii creek L an and d th that a t deputy sheriff sheri ff irwin and detective r franks passed within a few feet of him Frank frankas ss bloodhound lie he said stuck his nose into the brush against Cough lins rifle coughlin Coughl ln said he had a notion to shoot franks but george pointed out the tolly folly of doing so when so many deputies were in the vicinity GOOD TIME AT MURRAY ile ha declared that while they were in murray saturday night they had an enjoyable t time ime drinking and found numerous friends there the horses taken by them he intimated were presented to them ile he ascribed his cap lure eure to the taking of a wrong road near garfield beach on saturday and the consequent necessity of making inquiries at the moss ranch their purpose was to get over to the desert but they were unfamiliar with the country and their horses gave out after eating supper at the third term mine they rode down willow creek canyon LO 10 the place where they were cap captured and picketing their horses stretched themselves for a sleep that they intend ed should last only until midnight but they failed to awake said cough in until the thoele tooele county posse was shouting around them 1 I looked out ot of the brush and saw horses and men all around us and then I 1 knew it was no use to hold out any longer the kid did not want to glie gle up and when I 1 came out and gave my lie he went off up the creek but he gave in after a while too it was no use holding out the was up I 1 would have surrendered before it I 1 had been sure that id not have been shot GEORGE SLIGHTLY WOUNDED george is 3 far less talkative than coughlin lie ile directs inquiries to the latter and says lie he was simply acting under the alie directions of the older KILL kid ile he was bitter lit in the references he made to his relatives lie he had only one relative he declared who treated him white that was his brother during the fusi fusillade lade at the cabin cabin near wasatch george was ivas shot lit in both thighs the bullets had bad passed through the cabin wall before striking him and being nearly spent inflicted only flesh wounds A portion of the lead was picked out by coughlin Coughl ln with a pocketknife county physician wright removed ra oved the remaining fragments last evening |
