| Show BAD MIH FROM SALT LAKE battle between Horse thieves and officers SEVERAL SHOTS EXCHANGED banged deputy sheriff wounded in the arm and the thieves escape two young salt lakers ambitious to become desperadoes stole park city and salt lake hoists bobbed their companion deputy sheriffs smith anil and gibbs arc or 0 in summit county assisting the officers ot 0 f that county in an attempt to capture capo callo two lairse thieves yesterday sheriff I 1 tardy hardy received a telegram sent from echo by captain gibbs stating that th the a thieves hal had had a lah T n lilt sheriff Ilan ington of summit and one of his men shots shola were exchanged irk in the hie encounter but the th lilies lekes escaped the dispatch also alao mated that a posse was wab belne being formed to run the lea des peraU es down domn and that gibbs and smith mould join it the police at park city were warned that the desperadoes would be he thee thursday night and were on the it lookout tor for them yet they succeeded in getting into town and out again without being seen by the officers friday morning the sheriff was no tilled filled that the boys had been lit in towne town slid and immediately started out in company with earl williamson Will lamson to trail them down dowil at War iship the sheriff found the b boya led had stopped to have tile horses hornes 0 d and h had d started up the weber Veller li river only thirty minutes before borrowing an old rifle in Wart ship the sheriff and his companions struck th the e fro trail I 1 I 1 araan and found their game gama had through rockport rockfort Rock port presuming 1 I r that they would keep tile hie road up the lie rh aher er the pursuers pursuer 8 gro rode tic on to pena at which kohyt they found they were on the wrong trail as game had left i it the ile road groad between stockport rockport Rock port and pena and taken a wood road up crandall creek returning to Crand 01 creek they followed the thieves up that stream some four or live five miles coming at last to a shek sheep wagon camped in the brush and upon the sheriff looking into the wagon ile he saw one of his men young coughlin with a winchester at hla his dT klor sheriff told coughlin to tn drop the gun and ills his answer was a bullet which struck tile horn of the sheriffs saddle and glanced danced upward some of tile the bits of lead or pieces of flying leather from the saddle horn striking the sheriff in III the face cutting him slightly harrington immediately returned the shot but without effect and then found to his dismay that h he was unable to elect id 1110 empty shell shelf from froin his gun cun at tile the same instant the other othe r desperado opened lire fire trent from the brush bill h and beins being between two ilbegi tile the sheriff and his companion were compelled to draw off which they did without at serious damage it received several everal il bullets abr through ough his clothes and a slight flight flech wound in the left forearm AMATE AMATEUR UR desperadoes the horse bone thieves are arc two young men of tills this city r fred red george and pat cochran aged 20 and 24 nho w ho have lately dc eloped an ail ambition to become Y very ay bad men inert recent disclosures have led sheriff hardy to believe that they have bay e been guilty of numerous thefts during the tha past few months in this county and S SIgAn mIL about ten days ago they arrived in this city with two horses homes stolen at the he latter place these they succeeded in trading for other horses here they then determined to depal delai t tor for wyoming but being without tn funds ride went out to calder 9 park on the evening of 0 pioneer day tor for the purpose of up a street car or some individual and thus obtaining the needed CONIL but the plan for some reason tailed failed to work and they came back to abo city with pockets still empty on the return trip they were tempted by the horse of 0 john E rule the gro ero at ninth east and tenth south 1 and I added it to their string of stolen animals they discovered that a young man of their acquaintance whose name has riot not been disclosed had a small sum of C f money and they persuaded him to join them on the trip to wyoming g assuring him that he ha aoud COU id find employment PI ament there the three pet et out on priday friday morning A at t midday they were fifteen miles up emigration canyon the young man who accompanied the thieves th level at this point refused to go further ile he claims that ls until ho he started on the journey he did not know that they were but that their theft ot of provisions from it a house on the way opened his eyes when ho announced his change of mind about going to wyo wyoming ming they took look hla his I 1 line file from him and held him up with it requiring him to deliver dellet r to them all the money he had about 11 II 12 I 1 the horse he had been riding had been allowed to drink water until it had foundered the thieves shot the aal an ma anal and rodo rode off lea tile tho young man they had robbed to trudge back to town on his return sheriff soon boon learned of his hl experience find and at onro once dispatched deputies smith anti and r ollas abil on the trail of nf the thieves thieve the latter bitter are now DOW Stipp supposed oseI to tf be near the wyoming geln line and the at evanston Ev aiton has been notified not hied to in be on the alert for them |
