Show WESTERN BAD MAN HAN MAY BE 8 PARDONED I IN INTO UTAH TO BREAK BRA UP A DESPERATE GANG CAC When Frank Lyons known to the Wyoming criminal hunters as R. R E. E Stratton is released from the Utah slate prison next Saturday by an order from irom the tho state board hoard of pardons he be Willo will wiH go o to Bi Big Horn count county Wyo Wro in the custod custody of Sheriff Felix Alston Aiston of Big BigHorn BigHorn BigHorn Horn where ho be is scheduled to turn states state's tate s evidence nu and reveal 31 the hi hiding places and methods of operation of tho most daring gang of criminals that ever disturbed the peace of W Wyoming sheriffs riffs Lyons will bo be pardoned hero that be he mil may mav he bc given Ji a heavier sentence sent sent- nee ence in the Wyoming state penitentiary I He lie is wanted there on tu a charge c of ot horse stealing Lyons alias Stratton alias Al 1 Barlow Bar Ru- low 10 alias A. A P. P Steiner alias etc was arrested in Utah in in 1900 and May Mav 8 2 to thirteen years in tho the state pris prison n for grand lar lar- cen He lie entered and plundered one oue of i ithe the mot pretentious homes on Brigham street ct A t fter two years of confinement I durin during which he played the role of exemplary ex cx- prisoner with ith considerable cleverness clev cle erness he was g given a parole but fled from the state the night he hc was released front the prison The countr was wag scoured cound for months but he 10 was not lo Jo- Jo I I Betrayed by Woman I That was six and a half hat years 3 ago O. O In Th 1906 four years veara after hi his escape with ith characteristic bravado L Lyons L ons returned to Salt Lake City Cit and was captured on Commercial street after a desperate batte batte bat bat- te te which is 3 remembered by b the state I prison S g as one of the momentous i days in in the history of the institution I Lyons was betrayed by a a. woman She ivan WUi supposed to bo ho his paramour and aud I ho was the last person whom hom he was with prior to his hig breaking his big parole and Jea leaving in the state Upon his return in In 1906 she was as the thc first pen person on he lie heir vis vf- ted Her c love for tho man ha hap had l evidently evident ly y waned durin during his ab absence ence and attracted at by the reward still standing a against the e escaped convict on she notified notified noti noti- fied ed the state prison authorities of his return Her treachery did not end eDd with that She plotted w with th the authorities to lure Jure Lyons to her room room on Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial street treet and while be beguiling him bim with her mJ wiles the prison wardens entered en en- and arrested him after a fi fight bt in iu which the woman pretended to help her ner erstwhile lover loer Lost Credit Marks Lyons Lyon was again Jod lodged ed behind the Utah prison walls mIlls aud and all the tho credit marks gained during hii hi his former incarceration incarceration were revoked rc He lie was to serve enc I I his full term of thirteen years ears which if complete complete- would hold him bim in Utah until I 1917 But things were not to end so 80 tamely for tho strenuous desperado During Durin his four years of unlawful freedom free free- dom doin Lyons lived bard hard and fast iu in Wyoming Wyo Wo min ming ining Under ail au assumed name he ho is said to have led ed tho the worst sans gang n of horse thieves and cattle rustlers that ever operated in tho Big BiJ Horn county of i V Wyoming J Jackson on bob holo and aDd the hole in thc wall country a attain again Jiu rC revived ed as Centers centers of refuge for tho lawless ele dc of tho the we west t and the Lyons Jau gang gaug came close to establishing re-establishing the old regime reginio when a horse thief could impunity I It is here that Sheriff Alston of B Big j HOrn BOrn enters into the story about Lyons Lyons' career For two years rears that sheriff who I prides himself in never hain having lost Jost a aman anian roan man in all hi his long career hounded Lyons Lons closely Tw Twice cc ho be had him iu his cl clutches tche but hut failed to laud land behind d prison bars Caught Him Again I In he be arrested him in the ni Big l Horn orn basin lasin count country r Wyo Wo and lodged I lira bun iu IU in the thc counts count jail while be he kept kepton ou on the trail of Lyons Lyons' Jan gang Returning Re ne turning n a month later from a futile chase in in t the e Jackson hole bolt country ho bo found Lyons ons had a again aiu put prison on bars behind him For several months he ho was 38 supposed ed to ha have p left en the state but hut he turned up at near neat the thc I line Hue by stealing a herd berd of I valuable horses 1 I i Governor Is Willing Hundreds of ranchers turned out to I run the clever desperado to earth but failed Retiring to the hole bole in the wall all countr country in Idaho Lyons au and hi his gang ans defied their pursuers and continued to operate Sheriff Aston AstOl ho had bad lost hope of ever getting gettin his man whom bom he be had come to consider his arch enemy Several Ser Sev eral cral weeks a ago o ho learned of Lyons Lyons' Utah history bistor and came to Utah to fo see Governor Cutler as to the possibility ot or having ha him released from tho the Utah prison that be he mi might ht go co back to fromin Wyoming Wyoming Wyo fro min ming to an answer cr nine serious charges eB Tt It is understood that Governor CutIch Cut Cut- leh Ich was wal impressed se with AI Alston's Iston ton s 's 8 ambition ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion to land Lyons au and thereby save C aChis his reputation as a manhunt cr Inasmuch Inasmuch Inas Inas- much n as Lyons has hns filed petition for pardon it was decided that the occasion occa I sion WIH wal an opportune one for turn turning u him him t o over r to tho the Wyoming authorities who have big bigger cr grudges and greater I claims on him than has After a conference with Lyons al nl althe atthe I Ithe the state prison on during which it t is understood understood un that Sh Sheriff ri Alston leton arranged with the desperado a 1 little deal which I will lead to the arrest and conviction of several other members of the famous gang aD Alston left la last t week for Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming but will return to tako take char charge e o of the prisoner upon h his l release release re re- re lease from the prison It is understood that Lyons Lyons' pardon is ill practically asI as as- I |