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Show A BORROWING OFFICIAL- A Deputy Sheriff " Borrows" a Horse to Flee from a Mob, and Sells the Animal. Tho following letter was received by a gentleman in this city yesterday from a thoroughly reliable resident at East Canon. AVe suppress the names for the present. ' The deputy sheriff who "borrowed" the horse is well known in this vicinity from hia intimate inti-mate connection with a certain ring of U. S. officials. The public will be apt to hoar more ot this affair in a few days. Molth of East Canon, July 25th, 1S74. Dear Mr. R : Last Saturday night I lent deputy sherifl'G , of Dry Canon, a horse to go to Tooele, to be returned next day, instead of which some other man has iiim and is trying to Bell iiim. The last I heard was that he was on his way to Salt Lake City with him. Description of the horse: About four years old-; sorrel; bald face; marked on .the neck N 1 and 'on theleft hip and thigh a horse's head; with nearly a new saddle and bridle. I'ieasB visit the stables and auction markets, and if you find him takg ixi-asssion of him and send him tome by one of ,the sLu;e drivers, with in--tructions that he be well feel on tho road. P. S. I also learn that G is in Salt Lake City. He came to me and obtained the horse under the plea there was a riot in Dry Canon and that his life was in danger; that one hundred men were in pursuit of him with revolvers. If you don't find the horse and can get on hia (G.'sJ track, hold him for the horse ana write me. |