Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-18 | Page 1 | Bettle with Thieves

BATTLE WTH THIEVES SHERIFF STORRS HAS FIGHT i WITH FOUR MEW I Utah County Sheriff Slightly Wounded l Wound-ed and Ono of the Outlaws Hurt Robbers Finally Captured j TRIBUNi SPECIAL Castle Gate Nov 1iLast nlcht I while Traveling Salesman Brown representing rep-resenting Cutler Bros was at Colton and had his trunks In a wagon near Cranors stole four desperate characters charac-ters broke open a trunk robbing It of Jewelry and silks worth SlOt or more Sheriff Storrs of ProO went to Helper Hel-per today in search of the thieves and learned that they were in this place He secured the services of Constable Wilcox went in search of the men and found them near the coke ovens They fought desperately striking Wilcox across the face Inflicting slight wounds One of the thieves was struck across the forehead stunning him The four men arc now in the waitingrooms of the depot handcuffed and will be taken to Provo In the morning In the fight which preceded the ar rest one of the men threw away a tray of gold rings which were recovered The men have the appearance of being hard criminals Ono of lhcm Is passing the time entertaining a crowd with sen I llmonlal songs