| Show HOW IT WAS DONE I Cassiday and Walker RIddled With Bullets I The Heralds correspondent at I Thompson Springs gives the following I account of the battle and capture Thompsons Springs Utah May 13 I The famous Robbers Roost gang was practically wiped out of existence this 1 i morning in a fierce encounter between 1 a posse headed by Sheriff Allred of i Carbon county J W Warf county attorney I at-torney of Carbon county Joe Bush of I Sait Lake City George C Whltmore of I Price and the robbers led b7 Joe I Walker and Butch Cassidy at a place about 40 mIles north of Thompson I Springs I As a result of one of this gangs daring I dar-ing holdups In Emery county about trn days ago In which one of George I C Whitmores ranchers was held up I and 25 head of cattle and four head of I Whitmores g eca saddle horses were I i cnven off and the rancher unmerciful unmerci-ful y beaten with a cartridge belt as exclusively related by The Heralc for I attmpting to resist this posse was crgTlzeJ and within leaO few hours j I wa on the trail of the outlaws I de j tf rrnmed to pursue and overtake them f Tdays results show how well this determination was carried out The trail was followed day and night over a country almost impassable and that would have caused many a posse with less courage than this one to have turned back and given up the chase but these brave men kept pressing on and this morning at 5 oclock their perseverance was rewarded by coming upon the outlaws in camp atthe above named place CALLED TO SURRENDER The robbers were asleep ab the time they were discovered but no advantage advant-age of them was taken on this score They were awakened and called upon to surrender but instead of this they grabbed their guns and began firing at the men that had them surrounded RIDDLED WITH BULLETS The posse returned their fire with deadly effect and in less than three minutes the bodies of Joe Walker and Butch Cassiday were literally riddled with bullets and the lesser two Lay and Thompson had thrown down their arms and surrendered Walker and Cassiday were game td the last und both died with their guns In their hands Each of them got in several shots before they were killed but the heretofore deadly aim and steady nerve of the two men had failed 1 them at the very time in their lives that it should have proven best and their shots all went wild not a man of the posse being hit Butch Cassiday one of the men that was killed and Lay one of the cap tured outlaws are the same two men who held up Paymaster Carpenter of the P V Coal company at Castle Gate about a year ago relieving him of about 7000 and Joe Walker and Cas siday are the same men that held up and robbed the general store of Ballard Bal-lard Bros at thls place about a month ago taking quite a sum In cash and a supply of clothing etc Ballard recognized recog-nized the shirt and pants that were on Walkers body when he was brought In today as part of the clothing he took in the holdup WILL HOLD AN INQUEST I The bodies of Walker and Cas sid a will be taken to Price on the morning i train where an Inquest will be held 1 tomorrow i i The two captured outlaws will betaken i be-taken to Price and lodged in jall unless I un-less the feeling of the people which Is running very high should I reach such a state that the officers would consider I it unsafe to stop them at Price in which case they will be taken to the I hp aliI t nfot state prison at Salt Lake City for safekeeping safe-keeping To this brave posse who imperilled their own lives to exterminate this gang of cutthroats too much praise and credit cannot be given The citizens of this part of Utah will feel greatly relieved now that the leaders of this I gang have been killed and it will be but a short time until the balance of the gang will be run down I |
