Show INTERVIEWED AT THE JAIL Coughlin Tells the Story of Their Wanderings George Is Reticent The young bandits were stretched on cots In their cells last evening when a reporur asked lliem for an account ac-count of their adventures Coughlln aiose and framing Is face In the opening of his cell door complained that the newspapers had not ghen him and his partner a fair deal and expressed a disinclination to talk But he was soon volubly spinning a tale of his experiences that had many fairy details Throughout he chuckled over the way in which the two had eluded the olllceis and when he was especially espe-cially amused broke out Into merry laughter lIe manifested a shade of regret re-gret for the killing of Stagg and Dawcs at the cabin near Wasatch but his other offenses only inspired him with pride Taking up the story at the time of his departure with George and Bruce for Wyoming on Thursday July 25th Coughlln proceeded Ve started for Wyoming because we thought It might get warm for us here and we wanted to get away for awhile We had come down from Park City a few days before with two horses One of them wo took from my cousin but lie was as much mine as my cousins for I had paid for feeding him The Kid Coughlln and Geoigu call each other Ildrodo down on my cousins horse and I came on Mike OJlalleys horse I took Mikes Iron gray horse and I am proud of it for Mike Is an old stiff Just say in The Tribune Im proud of It We took Bruce with us when we started for Wyoming but he weakened when we had been gone half a day Then we turned him back No sir we didnt hold him up We Just told him to hand over what he had and he did ItPASSING PASSING THROUGH PARK CITY Coughlln then told of going through Park City and declared that ho and George passed City Marshal ODonnell and that ho knew them but did not dare attempt theln arrest Maybe he thinks I didnt know him said Cough lln wearing red whiskers to disguise himself with Coughlln complained that Sheriff Harrington did not approach him properly prop-erly at the time of the encounter In which the Sheriffs check was grazed by a bullet 1 didnt want to nhon lint rlngton said he lies the best friend I ever had In Park City He did not como up to us right If he had eakl Come out Tussle I wont shoot wo would have surrendered lie calls me Tussle Ive been on several I trips with him But he started to shoot and thats why I fired at him But I wanted to apologize to him for It and I did apologize today 1 was excited when I shot at him as I had Just waked up The Kid ran oft into the timberSTORY STORY OF TIlE KILLING Coughlln then gave his version of the killing of Stag and Dawes Vc were asleep in the cabin when they commenced com-menced shooting on us Why didnt they come up and ask us to surrender But they didnt They just commenced sending the volleys Into the rhanty The bullets whizzed round our heads and the Kid said we were gone now sure But I told him we must light for our lives So we started In I did the shooting and the Kid did the loading When we came out of the cabin the two fellows who were not shot ran like deer for their wagon and made off Then I walked toward Dawcs who was lying on the ground The old man was alive He reached for his gun which was a couple of feet from him but I told him not to raise It or Id fire Then he let It go and I went up to him lie was shot through the lungs and there was blood In his mouth I got some water and washed out his mouth and gave him a drink lie said he was sorry they had fired on the cabin They said they woulnt have done It If they had known only the two of us were In the cabin They thought there was a nigger horsa thief and another man In there too The old man said he didnt blame us for shooting at them I didnt know Stagg was dead until the kid called my attention to him I never aimed at Stagg Perhaps one of the deputies who were on the other Bide of the cabin from him shot him I had nothing noth-ing against Stagg lIe knew me when I was a little bit of a kid But he had no business to come at us that way After they started shooting we had to light our way out When we did come out of the cabin and the two deputies were running away we might have put bullets through them But we thought we had done enough of that kind of work And we were no longer In danger and It wasnt necessary to do any more shooting DELAYED THREE HOURS We wero delayed about three hours in getting away because our horses had strayed off Before we left we gave Dawes water three times and changed him from one position to another an-other several times so he could rest easier He suffered much pain but he found no fault with us If we had had a pencil and paper Id have asked him to write out a dying statement setting set-ting us right and would have pinned It on his breast Before we started he told us how to travel to reach Ogden canyon He advised us to hurry off as a big posse would soon be after us When we cairo away he vas sun hand h-and we said goodI t rm11t sturt irv TALES OF VARIOUS CONSISTENCY Coughlln then told of the ride to Ogden a feature of which was a meal ut a sheep lanch where they left slices of bacon which the deputy sheriffs ate when they reached the place later After a contemptuous reference to Ogden Og-den because they had not been molested molest-ed during their stay In that city on Wednesday last Coughlln reached the Warm Springs meeting with the police the thought of which amused him immensely im-mensely He has told different stories of the meeting and what followed on the hills of City Creek canyon On this occasion he said that he commanded the police to drive on and that they do2 > wl away up the road at a furious pit In a conversation with Detective oh V j earlier Coughlln had maln talui that he and George had separated sepa-rated on leaving the cabin at which the killing occurred and had not come together again until they reached Murray Mur-ray Satuiday night After Insisting that this statement was true and that he was not at the Warm Springs he called out Jocularly to the detective Say Sheets why did you come out to meet us with the lights on the wagonY CITY CREEK AFFAIR Passing to the affair on the mountainside mountain-side noun of City creek Coughlli told The Tribune reporter that when an officer hailed them and asked them to surrender they responded with one shot and then ran down Into the brush Then he said they came down along the creek through the brush and entered en-tered the city in the afternoon walking boldly through the streets lie said they weie accosted by an acquaintance In the Canyon road who gave them a package of newspapers He claimit that thereafter they were supplied with the city newspapers regularly and that friends kept them advised ot the movements of the officers He said they spent Thursday night In bed in the St Elmo and Friday night In a friends house on Eleventh East SLEPT IN THE CEMETERY The statement that they stopped at the St Elmo is not believed A more likely story Is the ona told by George to Detective Sheets that they crossed City Creek canyon went over the hills to Dry canyon and went on down to Mt Olivet cemetery reaching the letter let-ter about dark and spending the night there It Is reported that trlcnds who went there ostensibly to decorate a grave met them In the cemetery George told Sheets that they silent Friday night on Jack GUmers ranch I at Eleventh East and Ninth South Coughlln In detailing their move inents up to the time they stole fresh horses at Murray on Saturday night was not at all specific lIe claim that they had roamed about the streets at will under the very noses of the olllcers He said they kept away from the houses of friends both here and at Mill Creek because they feared they were being closely watched The officers of-ficers he bald were on the right scent at Mill Creek and that Deputy Sheriff Irwln and Detective Franks passed within a few feet of him Franks bloodhound he said stuck his nose Into the brush against Coughllns rifle Coughlln said he had a nation to shoo Franks but George pointed out the folly of doing so when so many deputies depu-ties were In the vicinity GOOD TIME AT MURRAY lIe declared that while they were In Murray Saturday night they had an enjoyable time drinking and found numerous friends there The horses taken by them ho Intimated were pro Routed to them lie ascribed his capture cap-ture to the taking of a wrong road near Garfield Beach on Saturday and the consequent necessity of making In qulrles at the Moss ranch Their purpose I pur-pose was to get over to the desert but they were unfamiliar with the country and their horses gave out After eat lag support at the Third Term mine they rode down Willow creek canyon to the place Where they were captured and picketing their horses stretched themselves for a sleep that they Intended Intend-ed should lost only until midnight But they failed to awake said Cough lin until the Tooele county posse was loutlnir around them I looked out of the brush and sawhorses saw-horses and men all around us and then 1 knew It was no use to hold out any anger The kid did not want to give up and when I came out and gave my self up he vent off up the creek But he gave In after a while too It was no use holding out The Jig was up I would lulve surrendered before If tad t-ad been biire that Id not have been hot GEORGp SLIGHTLY WOUNDED George > Is far less talkative than Coughlln i V He directs Inquiries to the latter and says he was simply acting under tlio Directions of the older Kid lie was bitter In the references he made to his relatives He had only one platlvoihc declared who treated him wlmite That was his brother During the fUKlladeat the cabin near Vasatch George was shot In both ilghs The bullets had passed through he cabin wall before striking him and being nearly spent Inflicted only flesh wounds A portion of the lead was picked out by Coughlln with a pocketknife pocket-knife County Physician Wright removed evening re-moved the 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