| Show ARE JAILED the sheriff mm THEY WERE while asleep in their blankets george thomas the burglar breaks jail on saturday last word waa telephoned to the sheriffs office that a pair oi horses and two bandies had been stolen from jame thompsons Thomp sons ranch at lake abare on the night previous sheriff fowler was not at home when the message came but returned in the afternoon and immediately started out to ascertain the facts in the case at the ranch he learned that two men who had been working at the ranch had taken one of the horse and a saddle and had borrowed another horse and saddle from mr jaiken making the statement that they were going to town mr tug who has charge of the ranch wag absent at the time and when be returned he discovered that the men had cosed the ranch and had forgotten to leave the ponies and saddles behind sheriff fowler was impressed im with the idea that tha men would go southwest andee accordingly proceed to tin lie here he learned that the man 1 had been seen going down gintic tintic valley toward the sevier river he pro curd a team and by the next morning he was in lemington the men had stopped here the night previous and instead of going down the sevier river aa had been expected bad toward oak creek teams were changed and the sheriff continued his journey to oak creek here he again changed teams and secured the services of a mr heob who was thoroughly acquainted with the road to deseret the direction taken by th horse thieves the sheriff and his companion left oak creek at 2 in the morning in a blandine blin dine snow storm and reached asis by daylight two ranches wera visited and ae archeo but the runaways not found at the third ranch however success crowned their efforts tha horses were found feeding under a shed aad the men in their blankets in cloae proximity to a haystack toe sheriff had been for two days and and nights without scarcely a wink of adeep was tm d and worn out from the long ride and his fingers were numb with the cold but the eight of hi birda lying so snugly in their cosy beds revived his spirits wonderfully he quietly crawled to their sides and gently removed the blankets from their he exhibited his gleaming persuader 0 o them und requested that chev would be kind enough not to stir a hand or ejot until he had relieved them of any cumbersome weapons which they might be in of they readily complied with his but nothing mure cumbersome than a pocket knife was found the gali then arose put on their jackets and the sheriff placed the steel jewelry on their wrists it was bitter cold but insisted on their coming to the oasis hotel and taking breakfast with him and acain they complied with hia request after breakfast all hands and the horses moved on tic over the same route they had come the horses were left here and the and hi prisoners boarded the train arriving in provo on wednesday evening and tho boys were made comfortable at toms hotel they were called upun this morning by an reporter t whom they stated their names were E D kelly and herbert 1 talbot kelly wears B full beard and is lightly be lowthe average he is 26 years of affe aad is a pennsylvanian by birth his parents are both dead he left home fifteen years since arid hai been in utah several months he bad been working at the ranch for about month talbot has the appearance of an over gron country youth but he speaks with the polished accent of an english cockney he states that he was born in london his parents arc dead and is 20 baars of age he cam to America four years ago he had been corking at thompsons Thomp sons ranch for several montha in conclusion he remarked an I 1 anymore any more bensa than to steal a kisae pony at last it is stated that talbot at one time had a shingle out at moroni bearing the inscription H I 1 talbot M D late from london this etory however he dniel |
