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Show Iff-OR a Republican sheriff to try to catch Lopez, the Mexican bandit of Bingham, cost Salt IW Lake county more than $30,000 and the lives of six men five of them deputy JL sheriffs. The taking by John S. Corless, lone-handed, of three heavily armed Mexicans, who held up the Highland Boy store in Bingham canyon on August 9, 1916, cost the county just $12, for horse hire, and no lives. I Lopez is yet at large. The three Mexicans who held up the Highland Boy store are now serving life sentences sen-tences in the Utah state prison. Everyone remembers the hunt for Rafael Lopez. It extended from early in December, 1 1913, into January, 1914. The "field marshal" of the Von Hindenburg-like drive against the lone bandit, I Lopez, was C. L. Schettler, whom the Republicans now propose for election as 1 sheriff of Salt Lake county. Schettler was ever at the head of the posse when the camera men were on the job. He even got into a movie, posing with a Winchester, aimed at an imaginary bandit. i "Field Marshal" Schettler was in charge of the army of deputies routed by Lopez after the doughty manhuuters, under the crafty direction of their leader, had unwittingly surrounded the bandit on the top of a mountain west of Utah Lake. Straightway Lopez opened fire from behind a feAv rocks piled on an exposed position of the mountain moun-tain top and "Field Marshal" Schettler ordered and helped to execute a Yon Bochn-like "strategic retreat" re-treat" to the hotel of Mosida, WHERE SANDWICHES AND HOT COFFEE WERE WAITING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COUNTY. Lopez took the back track for Bingham and his later hiding place in the Utah Apex mine. The story of how Sheriff John S. Corless handled the three Mexican holdups of the Highland Boy store was admirably told by the HERALD-REPUBLICAN in its issue of August 10, 1916. ; Following are pertinent paragraphs of that story: . "In less than three hours after they had held up and "A cordon of armed men was sent out in all directions n robbed the Highland Boy Store in Bingham of $1000, shortly Em the camp, leaving virtually no avenue of escape open. after 9 o'clock yesterday morning, three heavily armed ban- er ietaUin? ot1her posses from Tooele Garfield arid Salt '! , . ... x , r. - i j Lake, Sheriff Corless secured a horse and with live deputies i dits were captured by Sheriff John S. Corless and posse m 5tarted up m canyou towaH m Tooele diyide The m I the hills west of Bingham, where they were hidden in a clump lnd posse rode uat they came llp011 tlc abandoned g of brush. Two of the men claim to be Spanish and the ' horses of the robbers on the steep hillside. Directing the 9 other Portuguese, but they are believed to be Mexicans. others to make a detour on either side, Sheriff Corless dis- 9 They gave their names as Femande Rodriguez, Jose Fran- mounted and started afoot up through the thick growth of .... . brush. He had gone about 200 yards, pulling himselt with 1 cone and Aquihno Arcantg. difficulty up the steep hill through the thick shrubbery, when "With three rifles, five revolvers and 2000 rounds of he thought he saw something move in a clump of bushes ammunition the bandits rode up to the store on horses. Dis- just ahead of him. j mounting, they entered the store and lost no time in making "Without realizing the danger of exploring the brush known their business About twenty-five persons, including single-handed, Corless walked into the bandit lair from the employees, were in the store and all were commanded to fe and surprised them. A11 were flat on the I throw up their hands under threat of death. While two of their handj watchi the movements of the oth- 1 ; the bandits held them covered with guns, the third pressed a gr deputi who were a considerable distance down the slope, revolver to the head of Edward Zwicky, manager of the store, kt sheriff .g command to throw up their hands, the three I and commanded him to open the safe. banditg turned surprise and faced the Sheriff's gun. !$ "Realizing that it would be iiseless to offer resistance, "Rodriguez and Francone complied, but Arcantg gained i; Zwicky threw open the safe door and told the robber to help his feet an(j attempted to pull his revolver from the holster at himself. The only money in the safe was a sack of silver side .t the same moment, Corless sent him sprawling to 9 containing $1000. Throwing it over his shoulder, with a tne ground with a blow on the jaw. The sheriff then fired warning to the manager not to pursue them or make an out- two gots to summon his deputies and held the three bandits 9 cry, the robber dashed out of the door. Quickly tying the covered while he disarmed them. i bag of coin to the horn of his saddle, he mounted his horse , . , " 3 kj; oo The sack ot money, which was all silver and weighed and signaled to his bandit partners. . ; , . p J fe B about eighty-five pounds, was lying on the ground, never i "Backing out of the store, the other two jumped on the having been opened. The other deputies came up just as H waiting horses, at the same time firing a half dozen shots as Corless emerged from the brush with his arms full of guns, a warning against pursuit, and dashed at full speed up the Two of the robbers walked ahead of the sheriff with their canyon. hands raised above their heads, while the other was made "Zwicky gave the alarm quickly, notifying the office of to carry the heavy sack of booty . the town marshal and Sheriff Corless of Salt Lake. As soon "When the news of the capture reached the townspeople is he received -the telephone call, Sheriff Corless and several f Bingham and the prisoners and deputies passed through , . , . . A !.! the streets on the way to jail, Corless was accorded a rousing deputies started for Bingham in an automobile Arriving eer from the hundreds of citizens. The news of his exploit there, he immediately took charge of a posse of about thirty sprcad rapidly throughout the imp and he was warmly M men, with Deputies V. B. 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