Show SHEJIff PBEKE Mil GETJ300 UINTAH OFFICER CAPTURES PETE NEILSON Belief That Sheriffs of Eastern Utah Are Combined to Rid County of Robbers Roosters Special to The Herald Price rtali May 2SherIrf Allred of Carbon county is out of pocket 300 while Sheriff Preece of Uintah county II Is ahead a like sum by reason of the capture of one of the Robbers Roost gang Pete Neilson who is wanted in I Sanpete county for grand larceny and various other infacti ins of the law The reward was not long since posted by I Governor Wells The two sheriffs lately met in Salt Lake when Allred told Preece of the whereabouts of Nielson Neilson Jas at the time In the employ em-ploy of Manager Nutter of the Strawberry Straw-berry Cattle company in Uintah county coun-ty and will be held until the Sanpete sheriff calls for his man Neilson was one of the posse that was two vears ago sent out by Nutter to join others in the hunt for Butch Cassaday Joe Walker and Maxwell the latter now in the Utah tjenituntiary leaders of the Hco tel gang Neiteon is about 35 years of age and whit no large of murder car be substantiated directly against him hehas alr rys bcfn regarded as a desperate manai0 one the officers have been particularly anxious to get behind the bars Sheriff Allred refers to him as the first lieutenant of Tom McCaity one of the boldest of the Robbers Roost The officers of eastern Utah have two others located and their arrest is likely to follow st any time The fact that sheriffs of five eastern Utah counties were all latelv in Salt Lake in consultation con-sultation with Governor Wells leads to the belief a united effort is being made to rid the country of this gang which has so long terrorized the people and has committed untold depredations I |