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Show Matt Warner By Rl( HRD MIAII S W' ul'l th that's Joyce Warner f Price reimt:i her Ltniou (aiher Mutt Warner as a hind and hom-s- t man, devoied parent, and beloved character a real-1- (e Wallace fh'cry, blustery and bumming; wli.it lh.it bcrx A legend -- outlaw life Was Hit ai ink lit. liotn U.llaid ra .tus ( luisiianson in Ivd, he livid on a small farm in lev ait, I't.ih, until the age of bv tin i ov ii, mu law h.id to la c it lii r suitof tin ij'i'i I .111 tin uinl romam t of outlaw life " with homely good humor. At heart Mutt was alw.is a big hid." While1 serving as a law officer in Price he onee managed to remove a rowdy drunh from a local saloon by ehallmeing him to a drinhing marathon. When the man collupseel at last ino a stupor. Matt shipixd him off to Tom McCarty of Green River, in a create murhed live freight." Tom, thinhing it was a bulldog Matt had promised him, invited all his friends to the railroad depot for the uncrating, only to discover the bum. Once, when Matt was downtown on an errand to buy Joyce new shoes, he discovered a pKir waif on the streets, shivering in his making i sploi's largmt ihioiigltmit I lull, U turning, (oloiadii amt the Nui this t M Alter a holdup, the gang would flic, niton across entire slates, to reaih an apmmti-(ink out, mo-- t notably Robin rs' Roost mar ll.iiil.swlle in tlie San Rafail ili i. t. lln re tln-- could disappear until tin ir trail cooled off, 1 he Robin rs' Rmisl hideout was atop a high nusa, inaccessible cc, pt by one path, whire a single man uu!d defend against an army. Matt Wariur's introduction Warner desperado, bark robber, rancher, philanthropist, and a man who led many lawman lives in a time and circumstance when even to survive a single life was unlikely. For almost 20 years Matt Warner rode the bandit trail as one of the Wests most colorful bndmen. Narrowly escaping many posses, surviving gun fights, Malt seemed In the daytime we would sweat, fry or sizzle undi r the hot desert sun, or ride for whole days with our clothes soaking wet in rainy weather, or sleep in wet clothes on cold nights under one saddle banket. It didn't make any difference if one of es got sick, or nearly died with rheumatism or too'hache, or got a leg broke; he had to grit his teeth and trail right along anyway. No doctors or nurses or warm beds for him. If he died, he died, just like a horse or dog along the trail been forced to serve a second After serving three sentence. four months he was and years pardoned by the governor and given amnesty for all previous offenses. During the last two decades of his life, until his death in 1938, Matt Warner lived in Price, serv-ir- g terms as deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, detective, and Matt Warner as he appeared in 1937. Photograph was taken at Price, near an old bandit trail of flight. Near Huckhorn Draw in Emery County, the reformed bitilman left this inscription in axle grease, February, 1930. that evening, asking further nlxxit Warner, and ulxiul the missing Butch Cassidy. "Are you Ruleh Cassidy?" Joyce It, id asked him. Yes," the man said, "but don't eur tell anyone." The man who claimed to be Bulih Cassidy said he had been living in the Fast and working on the railroad under After that an assumed name. night he disappeared and was never heard of again. tually, met with a violent death, or whether he failed into anonymity in the civilized Fast, his disappearance, and the death of Matt Warner, signaled the end of one of the most colorful an-$dV0e- &te Day of Prayer Page Unofficial pardon from Utahs governor llebor M. Wells reads This Man is O.K. Warner Price, Utah 1 February 29, Thursday, Green River Posse Acquires 2 Mobile Emergency Units - Soon to be- quaitcrs and an ambulance and GREEN RIVLR available for rmf'rgrncy first aid unit. The mobile headquarters will be service m eastern Emery County equipped with provisions, medical is a converted fi6 passenger srhno' supplies, eight bunks and bus which 'A ill be used as a radios on both highway patrol and head- - sheriffs acmobile posse frequencies, to Verron Ha'I, Captain cording d brad of the Green River Squad of th- - Emery County come two-wa- y search-and-disast- er carried the card in his billfold as home soft joft sen. iff Jack Leamastrr, County Commissioner Kenneth Silliman, Green The sergeant, a graduate of River Mayor Rey Lloyd Hatt, Carbon High School, attended the Highway Patrol Troopers Leonard College of Eastern Utah. K. Jcwkes and Lyle Evans, and Lee Caldwell, secretary-treasure- r of the West Emery Squad and the Emery County Sheriffs Posse. . GAS Is Best! If Sheriff's ENVY Ul EM Posse. Staff Other new officer-- ; include Robert Scc'y, first lieutenant; William vev second In utenant, and Edward Chenoweih, iergeant. At the recent installation proSher gram, honored pur 's Mob'ey. MATCH w'-r- plenty of Stanley R. Ward at Andersen duty temporary Guam. Sergeant Ward attended North Erniry High School, Hun'ington His wife Irene is the daughter of Mrs. Bessie Day of Serg-a- Otto t newly-electc- Temporary Duty nt is on AI B, Rragerton. clean OLD CROW hot wafer f,,,.e.7r SWEETIE PIE for straskey0 IGHT BOltf whiskey sure! AND OOTTLtO Ml M ftanfljr Mf wmk lot of bath toad th famau Ptrmetim vatar luata will giva tmt jrm all th tUan ned Malar youll ... far jrar ta comal rr Mad of amariag om HifJrmtmT . . . with Keep up with the Joneses in the way. Improve the appearance of house, maintain its value, by means HELPER STATE BANK loan. Interest-rate- s low. Eypert counseling is free! jyiELPER best your of a ore imuia' M TM on I (MMRl Ad nW pmmtm b M Muftry.kaekM "TATE Helper. 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Sergeant Axelsen, a finance specialist, is assigned to a unit of the Air Training Command. He previously served at Binh Thuy AB, Vietnam. 1968 legends American History. Matt's own book of memoirs, IMF LAST OF THE BANDIT Whatever really became of Butch Cassidy, whether he, like so many of his associates, even Soldier Returns From Vietnam; New Assignment 1 On this day, people are brought together across denominational, racial, national and cultural boundaries to pray for the needs of the world and to make an offering for carrying out the religious mission around the world. ' first night policeman. Warners longevity is especially remarkable, as most of the Wild Bunch came to violent ends. Bill and didnt receive any more burial than they would, and his body Sponsored by the Church Women United, five denominations will be represented on (he program. The public is invited to attend. h Unfortunately, Matts reputation as a bad man outweighed his justification of having acted in he was sentenced to five years in the state prison, and except for an intervention by Utah Governor Wells, might have robber: will be observed in Price Friday, March I, at 8 p.m. in the Price Community Methodist Church. ly evening shortly after her father's death an oledcrly stranger called at the Warner house, asking about Matt. Joyce immediately recognized him from her father's description as Butch Cassidy. The stranger expressed grief upon hearing of Matt's death; he returned a second and third time har-rass- a man of destiny. That destiny, as he was frequently to express it in later years, was to discourage young men and de'inquents from following in his footsteps. The outlaw life was hard'y the romantic spree envisioned by television and movie writers of a later dav. As Matt onc described the ordeals of a fugitive bank World long-abuug- Thus began the alliance of the Robin Hoods of the West, for most of the money they won was consequently spent in doing good deeds in the neighborhood. The many friends cultivated by Matt and Butch undoubtedly contributed to their survival in harder times. Matt spent only one term in prison, that in the Utah Stale Pi nitentiary, ironically, after he had vowed to "go straight. After having managed to stay out of trouble for two years, he was hired by a prospector named Henry Coleman to help move a mining camp in the Uintah mountains. Coleman had been by claim jumpers and, knowing Matts reputation as a dead shot, p'anned to lure Warner into a showdown with his enemies. Thus the unsuspectng Warner was led into an ambush. An explosion of bullets from three hidden Winchesters ripped at his coat; his pony fell dead; but Matt, drawing and shooting from the hip, killed two and wounded a third in less than a minute. shoe money on new clothes for the boy, much to his daughter's chargin at the lime. These arc but two minor incidents in one of Western history's most exciting lives, that of Matt o myvteriouvly. Whatever became of Butch Cassidy is still a source of speculation, though it is generally believed that he and Harry escaped into South America, where they continued in the lawless life until both were killed during a gunfight with Bolivian police. Reportedly, both men were pinned down and was wounded. Butch fought until his ammunition ran out, saving the last bullet for himself, Warner never did believe the story; the Butch Cassidy he knew would never have committed suicide. Besides, Warner protested, Cassidy had all his life avoided gun battles with the law; it was simply not his style. Others who knew Cassidy remained equally in doubt. J. W, K. Bracken, who had know n Butch, was dispatched to Bolivia to identify the bixly; he reported it was not Cassidy, but rather Torn Dilley. Miss Warner contributes another important information, that one me." threadbare coat. Warner immediately ushered the boy into the J. C. Penney store and spent the World Day of Prayer March Me-Cr- row-Uiy- industry at Diamond Mountain, and young Warner soon IuuikI buns, II invilved Malt Wolkid tireh-sl- v to become a consumate bur w man and expert shot w hilt- - strung his apprenticeship to the outlaw rustlers. Warner's first muting with Butih Cassidy was in Tcluride. Colo. Warner was travelling the country with a horse named Betty, into McCarty wav shot during a Culu-radbunk rubbery; lout wav killed in a Montana gunfight, and Lew McCarty, guns and .spurs on the colt. When Matt s horse won, Cassidy gamely surrendered Ins whole outfit, Warner declined to take the 's inbut Butch possessions, sisted. Finally, Warner offered to lake Cassidy as a partner, "I sure would like to trail along with you," said Butch. "It's a bargain," replied Matt, "and being as that outfit is mine and you're my partner and I won't have a partner trailing mo around race tracks afoot, you'll have to usc it while youre with a principal g hoi sc called the wagered his horse, saddle, chaps, that tune cattle rustling was At A including the young Cassidy, who - who iacs. Mcliahy mlt was the Inca! favorite, ami marly everyone in the county tu t against Warner's horse, li One night hi- got into a fight with (he town bully and, tuis'iik- nl (lurking he had killed the luv, fb d into n.o tin tn I't.ih, mar Diamond white he Moiintain, found work on a nimh and atkipl-u- l tin name Matt Warner. ul, ng with ISutih Cassidy. was ifomunnt ut ait unlaw gang known as ih- - Wild flunih, Warner, . lie- - of many lives r mouS O' p psow t niirt'i CO hiwro n. |