| Show II CASTLE GATE HIGHWAYMEN The officers of the Castle Gate Coal company have abandoned hope of recovering re-covering the money that was stolen from Cashier Carpenter by the two highwaymen a week or so since Could the highwaymen who committed the robbery be apprehended and convicted they would feel that much had been done It is more than probable that the money that was stolen will never be recovered while it is far from certain that the robbers will ever be apprehended I appre-hended and convicted Even their Identity does not appear to be known It has been suggested many times since the robbery that the gang of I outlaws that infest the southeastern part of the state should be cleaned I out The suggestion is all right but thus far it has not been accompanied I with clans and specifications for carrying car-rying it out Supposing it be admitted that the men who dwell in the San Rafael mountains and who at times sally forth on predatory expeditions of one kind or another are all desperadoes they cannot be outlawed except through legal process how are they to be cleaned out They must be charged with definite crimes and even after these charges are made an effort ef-fort must be made to arrest them before be-fore severe measures towards them can be undertaken They may be the worst men In the world but notwithstanding this they cannot be shot down as dogs If they resist officers sent to arrest them such shooting down would be justifiable but not dtherwise The law cannot be vindicated by lawlessness There are some things in connection with the doings of the men who infest the San Rafael mountains that should not be things that seem almost inexplicable inex-plicable A gentleman who lives out In Emery county told us but yesterday that the amount of sympathy these men receive from many of the people who live in the country not far distant I dis-tant from theirs people who are law abiding and are honest in all things Is quite astonishing some of them even going sO far as to say that these men neer molest the settlers or commit depredations upon their stock as though this excused their depredations against others He said the sympathy seemed to be genuine though there can be little doubt that much of it is simulated for the sake of selfprotec tion The gentleman > who told us of this had been told tha he had bet ter keep his mouth shut when he had denounced the San Rafael robbers This would Indicate that there exists somewhat some-what of a reign of terror in the region re-gion When such is the case things j I are in a pretty bad state I To break up the gang of desperadoes i that infest the southeastern part of I the state it may yet be necessary for r the state to adopt the methods that I were employed to break up the Molly I Maguires |
