Show this paper receives a le letter tte r bill Tib bills and jom tom perkins escaped jail bil breakers take their pen in hand to tell Us all about it arun their hideout hide out on wildcat bend in the rim ri rocks and ble canyons aloag the green river i bill tibbitts Tib bitta and nd tom perkins al lebed ww cow thieves who escaped from the county jail on the night of july N by breaking through tho the ban bars of the franb door hilive written the time times independent an extended let I 1 ter in which they give their tittle of 1 I 1 the cae case the letter was mas received by the times independent tuesday morning th the 0 e envelope anve lo 10 pe wa was writ postmarked marked octo ber 14 in closed with th the letter div ing the fugitives version of the cow stealing case asa aai a brief note to the editor signed by J W bill I 1 TI tib bits asking that ue e publish the th attached communication the th no nota td 1 follow I low i i moab utah oct 13 1924 editor times independent 1 dear sir I 1 am tending sending here herewith ith a letter stating our aide of the cue that waa framed up against tom per kina kin and ind myself would like to b anve ve it published but if it you dont reel feel like Kiv giving ua a fair hearing return tho the letter to amy E allred respectfully 1 j 1 J W TIBBITTS the note to the editor was written t f under date of october 13 the day before the times independent rec received elved I 1 the letter at the postoffice post office nce the note is also dated at moab utah whether the fugitive fugitives came to moab to post the letter or whether they tent sent it to the post postoffice office nce by a friend I 1 is of couise coui se unknown to us in ae letter which they aft ask tt bave published tibbitts TiL bitta and per hermn in claim that they dupre ere the victims of a frame up on the part of other cattle mw men on hose range they had intruded they insert assert in effect that there WM was a general conspiracy on ithe part of their accuser ti the prosecuting office offices the county commis ioner the town paper papers and in fact ohalf i halt tho the town to blacken their reputations and sive rive them a rotten deal all ground around they state tate that account accounts jot of their arrest hearin ir and escape j from jail M I 1 is published in the time times independent were badly overdrawn end and exa exaggerated wae rated and offer to give us end and exaggerated and offer to give us they claim their preliminary hearin ing asa a farce they have la few uncomplimentary things to wy pay about the judge who sho heard their case the pay their respect respects to the prosecuting jit attorney torney they harshly criticism criticise critic crill ise cise and condemn t their beir own attorney who represented them at the trial and finally they dee see rely castigate the sheriff for the treatment accorded them in tho the count jail for two tuo reason reasons the times inde pendent would mould like to publish verbatim the communication from tibbitts Tib bitte and perlin perkins tint kirst vhf endeavor at all times to print both ides sides and verion version ion of any criminal case which come comes before our courts and we arr ry to be just as fair arts s in n the preen presentation tation of nev news matter sec becony oril the communication from the would prove entertaining and perhaps somewhat ome what amusing to a laree large portion of our readers however r the author of the letter have haie not con formed to proper pew paper style in freni fromi inK nir their letter they make toosi positive tive exertion which post sibly oum not be proved in a court of ia law the word words per perjurer jurers har allars I 1 bribe thieves thi th levos evee and similar CD corn ph referenced appear quite frequently the co authora arc tire per hap hp unfamiliar with our libel law which make a noa ne paper publisher leslly nible for the matter which appear appears in his hi paper naturally the tim q pendent ha hatt no lesire to jurna inta IL 9 libel and Ahe wherefore aie e are unable to five chiv pub to the lie its en birtty we nevertheless novel tilde wish to 60 oblige the boy boys to aa treat great an extent ai ILA we cun can do and wo will attempt to fairly print their side ide of the aso by deleting certain part of the epistle which arc art con 11 libelous li belou in accord accordine inz spite to tho comm communication it t is t needle needless to say ay that the times independent do docs not vouch for any oily of the statements made nude therein we are tire merely w ual policy of placing our columns at the disposal of the tha for the dis nomination of new news with absolute falmo ti tt all times TImo Inde Independent reader readers wilt will recall the evidence in the th tibbitts perkins case as a at the time of the he citing we now nr are A it attl to present to them ita the e other ide aide of the case the communication from the fuci fugitives tives with certain part parts necessarily de do feted follow follows wildcat benda green river sept 16 1024 timis independent 1 we have read the th account accounts pub fished by th the a ta to es indea of our arrest hearing and escapa from the county jail ail and in moet most basei casei cue the fact facts were badly overdrawn and id exaggerated ag probably on n of Inis Information on the th part of the thi rel porter it might have occurred tto to biome of sour our readers that here could bo be two edw to our case if the times Is I 1 rilling to jive give us u a fair hearing we me mould like to stat etain e a fow few facts con berning our case and the treatment received by us u chilo in the custod custody 1 of the sheriff sherill in irl the first place the charge made against ui us were ere made mado upon a little bit of doubtful circumstantial evidence uch such ti some three weeke weeks old hore home and cuttle cattle tracks and a cow said to havo have been pen babinc a half mile from where we had frad allied a beef baom to by a number of ct cut tie tle nun 11 0 0 the only thine thet they had in the way of evidence wa wax the their r awn own lies lie for example when wore that one of us u bill had offered to pay for the cattle killed on point the no main o 0 for tur or arrest was the fab that we A e hed bd pup put ame cattle on a part of the rano used by our ac cur u r 0 aind nd they wanted to get rid of ua us they have boari in the habit tn in the past of keeping cattle and hep off this range by threat threats of violence and where here threats work by the halehale hale tale 1 of stock put on the range in our out mite a threats had viv availed 1144 them nothing so they tried perte cation by retting getting the county to 10 hold an rhue rhile they and othera others lumped jumped onto tinto our back backs the cutine bunch bunh the county com corn ners the town toun paper and nil all of the false rit lr ir moab and vicinity united to exaggerate exare erate all of the false rumor thai tha have haye been ed egi about us for year years and rive give us a rutten deal generally ne rally to it art with our blaring waa wu a farce the proM cutin attorney aej other were overheard oer heard talking sr about our cam 4 60 we e kne that it was ai already fixed that wo we wem abe uund overt over and pur bond bonds boosted boo eted after we wre through the t formality of is we were abouna i oyer over and under two thousand thou and dollar jollar bohar boha bond r ach fach aich chich they knew e rive give all thai that they keep us prider lock eni oni key while hile they went about to circulate lies and create prejudice us u we MIL h t have ja bor r e the 0 h tr tired already mentioned but the alleged allee ed food served us at tho the county lail lall boerding house was w dimply unendurable A of bread meat ond nd vegetable scrap called S Sc reace and of fiall from fa ts continued on page tight THIS PAPER GETS A 1 continual from first page blur bleu donate donated by the neighbor neighbors I 1 led fled thu chicken chickens was served to u i alone on X with w th added scraps and find crusts oi at abnal b maal obtain tI f rum the tam o 0 wilted unstrung string atri boang 1 with scraps of aneal me of questionable quality left on oui watts from previous lou such aeb tut stuff was wa served ui us and hunger forced UK us lo 10 rut ext emall quantities of it until we found a cat cut tooth in the the house tat had disappeared a fe few day bufore when we refU 41 to eat 1 it but the slime miss win was arved w u day after day lay apparently it wan was that or nothing and onions were ere in an sin effort to kill the odor our friend brought us in cake pie and other eatables which ke kept t us aliv and wt w would mould hat stayed and atad 11 nal inal in the district court and brov d to of grand county that qui persecutor had but slight cause to ev ean n accuse us u here mere follow follows a somewhat cri criticism by the dp de fondant of their at attorney torne and his handling hand linc of their case that war wax point going one too strong for us u po we me to leave which we e did on the night might of the of july we wint went wi nt down thi colorado river and on account of shallow water and sandbars and burs our wan was low slow by day no so we camped at night and as 1 consequence was overtaken by the xeriffa he riffA poise po a ise in the motor boat bout we left our boat about five minutes before the posse arrived and took to the rough hillside when the motor boat landed some of the men cot lot out and wire looking around on the sand bar for or eien signs of us u we fired one hot shot into the air and they all took refuge under the river bank beach was as sitting in the rear end of the motor boat and a thought he had bad wings to have seen him croaa the andlar we had previously previous lyl agreed between ourselves to submit to capture rather than shoot anyone so when the men went under the bank we me laid our runs down by the rock where we eat gat and walked away we have been branded as thieves desperadoes and murderers and have had our characters draped dragged through the mire by people who ho are anxious to drag our reputations down on oil a level with their own A fed A on slop by the aide side of which h si six days on grasshoppers seemed like a picnic we were mere told t n one occasion occa suon that there anything my ery rood to eat but it was rood good enough for dogs we ie mention this food question for we me consider anone an one that would take advantage achan adan tace tage of people iwane chev are in joil 11 to feed them slop that is unfit for a swine to be entirely beneath our contempt only that the county commissioners might kno know what kind of treatment the prisoners are bemp being subjected to and what the money i bei beina nir paid for and perhaps prevent the same thins thing happening happen inc to somebody tome body else elbe of cour course coure e we ne all unter 1 bertand tand that everything must be kept ket in the famil family I 1 we are not to ing to pose post as ex kamples of tf innocence but when we are stoned to death we would mould like to have someone found among our accusers that is at leat least a honest a aa ourselves to throw the first stone we have biard la ard that the law reads that a man mail is to be considered innocent until he 11 i proven guilty till ty but in our case we were nere considered guilt and treated as convicts ight from the start we have no hard fe feelings clings even een against our accusers for having us arrested ai rested or for anything the told that aas as the truth it is their lies t that hat ve e resent TOM BILL TIBBITTS |