Show f-ESELE f PEOPLE AND AND THINGS f f By Ily FRED BAGDY BAGBY Butch Makes a Visit j Recent death at Vernal of Old Od Speck negro cabin tender and reported re rc ported handyman for Butch Cassidy Cas Cas- sidy aldy notorious leader of the more notorious Wall Hole gan gang recalls recalls re calls alls the last reported visit of the outlaw out out- outlaw la law lato to Salt Lake City and how v a cub reporter scooped the town on onan an interview w with th the man on whose head there were several prices I It was yas way back in 1900 just after the Lie time ime that Old Speck said Cas- Cas lidy rode but out of the Hole one day telling him he would be bc back bark in a few weeks and to wait for him Butch never came back to the thc Hole but buton on his way to South America where be was w was s discovered seven years later when he was killed he is believed to have haye s stopped in Salt Lake The outlaw outlaw out outS law leader paid frequent visits to small towns in irs the outlying parts of the state and is reported to have made two or three journeys into Salt Lake incognito in the early erly days das r Red-Hot Red Tip Well win as I recall it Captain 1 Tom Dobson old pony express j rider and then night watchman on the block between First South I and Second South and Main 1 and Commercial streets street came excitedly edly into the local room of the theold j old Herald office which by the way was wal the same room In which this story Is being being- written Be- Be 1 cern tn-cern gasps for his hia breath which 1 the portly watchman had lost climbing climbing- up the stairs he told Dick Cannon city editor that he had seen Butch Cassidy enter enter enter en- en ter a saloon around on East Sec Sec- i r ond South street I Dick looked at the captain incredulously in credulously tapped a finger accompaniment on the desk to a low whistle Suddenly he called the cub report er Go over to the Casino saloon and get an interview with Butch Cassidy Cassidy Cas Cas- sidy he ordered without cracking a smile I ask him about inquired in in- inquired the green reporter unaware of the bloodthirsty r reputation e put a t ion of Butch Ask him what he is doing in town where he is going and what he is going to do shot back the cit city editor II Hits the Trail I Shoving a wad of oC copy paper into his pocket the cub bolted down the stairs two steps at a time buzzed around the old Smith drug store corner corner cor cor- I ner to the Casino which stood on the corner of oC the alleyway between the drug store building and the old Commercial block He bolted into the saloon galoon as i if he owned the place There was no one in the place but the bartender bartender bar bar- tender and a short hort chunky man with witha a heavy stubble on his face and a big slouch hat pulled well down over his face lace who was squeezed into the corner cor cor- ncr ner of the bar and the entrance screen at its end The bartender was wiping a al t l glass class E Say is Butch C Cassidy here blurted out the cub There was a crash as the startled startled star star- tied bartender dropped his glass The man in the corner perked up his ears cars and eyed the cub critically from rom head to foot as one hand strayed back in the direction direction direction tion of his hip pocket The bartender stood as i if LI he had lost his tongue What do you ou want with Butch Cassidy asked the stranger in inthe inthe inthe the corner in a casual drawl I Oil want to interview him replied re reo plied piled the thc innocent cub Well if you found him what would you interview him about continued the strang stranger r. r My city editor told me to ask him what he was doing in town I r where he was going and what he heL L intended to do volunteered the k loquacious cub A faint aint smile mlle flitted across the face of the bewhiskered stranger as he drained his glass of grog Well VelI kid you go back and tell your city editor that thai its it's dangerous dani dan dan- i business to interview Butch Cassidy and hed he'd better a F it forget |