| Show I OUTASARECADOUT R 1 S erfts Posse Captures Member Ot Robbers Rost Gang I WERE STEALING HORSES z TEE ABE NOW I JA AT r CAT DA 4 I Are AU ard Cases But Two Belong I t Hghy Bp cted FaeI Stolen Animals Secured and R turned t Their OersMor Bandits I Tji at Country t I Speclat to The Herald > Price Utah Dec 30For two months or more it has ben known to the of eels of the seer estern Utah coun I ties that some eight or ten of the noto riois Robber Roosters gang had returned re-turned to their old haunt and were doing busines at and around he old stand Yesterday thee of them were caught at Feron whIle snaking a retreat re-treat and theyare now In the county jai at Castle Dale Emery county and wf have to answer to the charge o horse stealing and perhaps other thing by the time the grand jury meets The men captured yesterday are Joe Siva sey Lee McDonald and P P Pete Mickie All arc bad meet and have ben wanted for some the wante Scr months past hors and cattle belongipg tb ranchmen farmers and stockmen have been missing from 5 1 Phnn Emery u dnd Grand counties have spent I considerable imd In trying to rundown run-down the thleves with poor success Until I un-til Tuesday lajt when they got a clue which resulted In the arrest made yesterday yes-terday and which will < o doubt re suIt In breang up the gang for the time being Last Tuesday a prominent businessman business-man of Price received a check from a leading InsUtution at Castle Dale foil something like 300 with the request that the currency be shipped to icke at Green River station on the Rio Grande Western railway as the later two wanted to prepay the freight on carload of hore hat were to be shipped east and that the stock was being held there u U the money arrived ar-rived The check or course was cashed and the money set as requested request-ed but In the meantime Sheri AUred was notified and he left with Tobe Whitore for Green River on the same train the money went out on After the Bandits Whimore has been a heavy loll from the rustlers and his purpose Ingoing In-going there was to sco If ny of his steele was in the bunch In the mean stace time Sheriff amaster of Emery county coun-ty was notified and he went to the scene on horseback across the cowl try Arriving at Green River the party located lo-cated the horses In a wooed grove near the town hitore looked the bunch over but iifound ncthiIgitn his brand upon It and returned home The thieves got wind of the presence of the officers and lntettd or shipping the I stuff out as had ben intended struck out acros the country on their best horses for the rendezvous of the Roosters In the San Rafael his Sheri Iiamaster telegraphed the facts to PrIce and the mesae was traits mited by telephone to his deputy ex Sheri Tuttle whl had an idea of about the course the would take That h ss iht nii 1HWpd rood jude I rii proven 0 by the n fact that he with J other deputies caught the three men at Ferron in the lower end of Emery I count They were taken under strong guard to the county seat where they now languIsh in the county jail lanSish I Members of the Pcsse ExSherif Tuttle Is the sergetat arms of the lower house or the Utah I legislature and pas served two term a sheriff of Emery county being defeated de-feated at the last election by the present pres-ent incumbEnt John eater Be causeto hIs cfc enc and his knowledge caueot edge of the criminal classes of this section sec-tion of the country he ha been re I tamed by the present sheriff In the fight which a citizens posse and the officers of twp or three counties had with the gang abotit two year ag Mr Tuttle ws shot and badly wounded wound-ed in the thigh ThIs was at the time whEn two of the gg Walker and Casnday were killed In the Little I BoCk Cliff mounllm Tobe Wltmore was alsQ In that pose Toe Swasy thO leader of the gang run don by thee officers and now In jai is a brother of the notorious Sid Swasey who i wanted for various and sundry acts of grand larceny and who Is supposed tD be at the present time In Canada to avoid arrest Another brother whQ bears a very unenviable reputation so It Is state by the officers cers Is ChatIe The boys are all the sons of Rbdte Swaser sho was atone at-one tIme a well known banker at Provo and himself a mot honorabl1 man R wnrd For Mce Fete Mickle is a brother of the outlaw who about four years ago killed SherIff Sher-Iff Burns of Sanpete county and upon whose head there Js a standing reward offered by Governor Heber M Wells Pete is described by the sheriffs hereabouts here-abouts as a bad man Lee Donld comes frma good family at la in Emery county his father being a Scotchman and it hIghly respected citizen wherever he has lived The father is a miner and prospector prosptor and is well knovp In all the camps of this state Nevada Idaho and Mon taa Young McDonald ItIs sid has not been with the gang long Tie stolen horses were driven back by Sheriff Lemasc to Emery count and u the stock has been Identified woe turned over to th owners They had ben pltke up one or two In a place from the rne an out of the i carloads seventyfive head two some I loglsblo t i but one of the animals belonged to the thieves this animal being th property of Swasey In the bunch there were two animals belonging to a poor farmer named Olsen who re alden just out from Castledale They were all the man had and without these he could do nothing on his far Looking For Other The officers lav other under surveillance sur-veillance ncr it the arrests do not scare the others off more aets are likely to follow a It Is pstively known that there are other members or he Robber Rooter gang In the so the part of Emery county and I also i Grand county where stock Is air nilesing and Included In this Is a Iksing an I bunch oC some 200 hoid of cattle that wGrdrvM of a e weeks ago in the direction or the Colorado river where theywill undoubtedly be held until next spring and then shIpped out from some < colorado 8tation where the che or de 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