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Show A VETERAN JAIL-BIRD. The Turnkey Dlvldet Hli Hefl'ltalitlea With an Old Time-. One of the toughest and most incorrigible incorri-gible characters who have fallen into the cordial embrace of the patrolman for a long time is the notorious "Yorkey Pat," whose escapades have made him a terror to the authorities of the northwest north-west ami who has until recently been a hunted fugitive. Yorkey, to whom Marshal Yonng has been extending tho "liberties" and hospitalities of the lockup, was this morning discharged .with an order that applied with equal emphasis to tive others, to take leave of the metropolis in two hours. The distinguished sextette, whose portraits are among the celebrities of the rogues' gallery for future reference, lost no time, but shaking the urban dust from their toot-toed shoos took to the county road. Yorkey was probably the most interesting of the delectable constellations constella-tions who will in all probability make their presence manifest before the territorial ter-ritorial limits are crossed. It was he who figured as the arch conspirator and judge of the Kangaroo court at an August Au-gust session of which the plot to garrote the turnkey and depopulate the bastile was laid. Yorkey was serving senteuee for burglary at the time of this desperate desper-ate event and determined to liberate himself even at the cost of human life. The hour arrived for the perpetuation of the fiendish plot, the signal of the tragedy being the arrival of the turnkey turn-key to' lock the doors of the gaunt ana gloomy confines. jorkey icu the attack and with his confederates con-federates soon had their custodian gagged and bound. A few minutes and the bastile was emptied of its law-breaking law-breaking tenants. - . The jailer had been subjected to unmerciful un-merciful abuse, and when found was almost al-most on the verge of death. Concerted pursuit led to the capture of all but nine of the "emigrants" and Yorkey, whose description had been posted in Marshal Young's diary, was bagged here. Telegrams were sent to Spokane announcing his incarceration, but no answer came from the place. - The avenging spirit that had sprung from the bloody assault on the jailer had subsided and as there were no charges against the festive horde here they were permitted to depart under the leadership of the peripatetic Pat, who will, in future, make himself decidedly "scarce" in Salt Lake. |