| Show STOPPING A THIEF at different per periods lods of our cur history bince since we inhabited these mountains our citizens have been terribly scourged urged by bands bandi of thieves who served themselves to everything of value that was lying around loose and on cattle I 1 and horses were insatiable while the troops were at camp floyd the thieves found a ready market for every thing they could put their hands ong on but since that time there has been a thinning out of not a few of these genry gentry and we have enjoyed a comparative respite from wholesale depredations ofearl ot vanous individuals who have figured in that shady side of lefea picture much that would be interesting te m abt be written but of no one among the crowd has there been more of ot variety than in the history of dives who had bad the list last page of bs history finished finis bed beJ on Thurs thursday dy evening in this city dives had no doubt one or more confederates at one time or another for even that class ot of persons persona have kindred associations for the love ot or it as well as for the advant advantages ageE ages but as far as we have learned he seems to have made the most of his hla reputation unaided and alone some from the ability he has haa displayed in handling the property of others and in maintaining the utmost secrecy afterwards bave have awarded to him intellect and qualities that might have made him a hero in these times but he missed it soon afner afler bis big arrival arrivas here wa are told of his calling upon a gentleman telling his pitiable tale of poverty getting immediate assistance and the gift of an ox team to start him hirr in wood hau bau hauling linX the first trip to the kanyon by the young dives ended in his hauling to the home of the original possessor a load of wood that be bad found already cut in the kanyon and which li he appropriated to himself but was cau caught ei t ia ia the act from that time to his big incarceration in the Pe penitent biary he arp pears to have engaged in a variety of occupations but much of the time he was consid consi erab derah y eng engaged aged in doing nothing in city life where many inen mena h have ave no visible means of existence dives could plod along in iti the crowd without attraction but in the country be he had nottie not sot the same advantages advantaged cf concealment add and notwithstanding his otherwise te passable life he was frequently cloned and charged with a weakness which in later times he developed to be hla hia dan dangerous er 0 a a fo borle rae from an amiable disposition and in accordance 1 with a not very common faith and tice in this thia world dives was made a bishup bishop in irl one of the northern settlements furnishing him an opportunity of developing wh whatever ateser good might be in him but out of the expert experiment he be did not escape like the hebrew childre Drom from the furnace of otan an eastern potentate dives had too great a fancy for getting things easy and for tor forthia this reabon reason had bad to be ousted for the last three years be has been about this city and was engaged much of the time in gathering around him the maternal material for a rather large dwelling t house in the fourteenth ward and during that time attracted no particular attention beyond that of a certain circle circie c acle suddenly however some time during last summer be comes cornea before the public charged with stealing some wagon tires from a lot in that ward ile he fancied that bat he wanted a molasses mill and had bad taken the tire lire for ithac that purpose ile he was tried before the probate court and was fined and ani costs of I 1 I 1 court on the following day justice miner issued a warrant to search dives premises and there was found evidence the most complete of his bis having stolen a large quantity of horbe horse and maule raule shoe shoes nails blacksmiths tools lead ac from the premises ot of mr S andian an diah in his hla relations with Standi standish abs he i furnishes proof of a deep cunning skill and material from which the vivid imagination of I 1 romance writers make their dashing and ani attractive highwaymen heros he was sympathetic over the losses of standish Stand indi indignant giant at the thief and hoodwinked so well everybody around that he was actually enga engaged t oed ged by standish Stan dieh to watch the premi premises prem iles ibes lies fies by night for i a certain time the property still debrea decreasing I 1 were offered to the boice for the apprehension of the thief and a watch for twelve nights was agreed upon and carried out but of course without success being in the confidence of the man whom be he was robbin robbing gp dives learned of the twelve nights watching and for the time restrained res rea trained bib bis I 1 weakness and remained at home but on the give u up P I 1 of the police be he returned to his plundering till be he had taken from first tu last about shoes a large quantity of nails tools and lead which he managed to trade away to different persons up to the time of bis his apprehension lien llen pion plon when the search was made upon the warrant of justice miner a quantity of the shoes and nails were found concealed about bis his house bouse and in the earth on his lot and not till all of bis his transactions ia in the heavy business were clearly and palpably demonstrated did he own to any of them ile he was a dogged cunning g thief of no mean calibre in rascality he was tried and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the penitentiary but was nat oat there over two months before he be broke out of confinement and stole six cows from a carpenter to whom nhom he had bad paid them for work done on his house bouse he returned of his own accord to the penitentiary and came out again at bib bis pleasure and broke into the city hall and into the court house and stole from these two places about a 1000 and a quantity Y 0 of f internal revenue stamps and the qua seal af f one of the official is the same night he broke into alderman clintona Clin tons tonys office and took 85 and two navy revolvers through the vig vigilance ilance elance of the police po licea a confederate an escaped xon con convict vict and now a pardoned out nevada volunteer was apprehended and a considerable amount of that property was wab recovered in the vicinity of camp douglas and sometime afterwards the two pistols loaded were found about dives in the penitentiary on the 31 34 of last month he managed to get beyond the guards for a very innocent purpose and in in a moment he be had reached the door closed it locked the guards in and quietly put pot the key of the penitentiary penitent tent iary in his bis pocket and walked off ile he had mada a saw of a ajack jack knife and the night before this adventure he had bad sawn almost asunder the chaide from his feet once ocas outside of the penitentiary a rock finished the la boron borron the chains and dives was again free for a month dives was the abject object of particular solli tude to the warden and to the police ile he mad zigzag tracks wh wherever brever he went and baffled his big pursuers so that co lo trac trace e could be had bad of him till three days daya before his hi a career was ended ile he was waa been seen to pass pas through the city on the sunday morning preceding accompanied by another person the two mounted on horses stolen from about centreville Cen treville an extra night force of police was put on and his hia suspected haunts were closely watched A wk ago tonight to night hib bis whereabouts in the city were not very uncertain but he escaped and made good use of othis othia his heels beefs on thursday evening a guard inv dinv invested ested the house which he be had bad visited the preceding night but was on other business shortly after nine a man was seen skulking from the passage way of the national hotel an officer disguised passed along and got a clear view of hig bis countenance it was devea dives the thi officer continued his bis walk east eastward vard while dives pro preceded ceded on west westward ward wara and passed two other officers on the watch f for or him the officer that recognized him turned upon hib tua track and fully satisfied of the identity 0 of dives the three tried to pasa pass un noticed by the north side of the marketplace market place in hopes of making up to him and taking him prisoner dives saw the movement and ran westward the officers pursued pursue di calling upon him to stop to wilch he was heedless after alter he had got beyond the rhoades house and was making a clear track for escape the officers called upon him again and again to stop but helas he was heedless and then on the order of the captain revolvers were drawn and wita the aid of colt dives was stopped opposite the Four fourteenth tenth ward school on the following day an inquest was held and the subjoined sub joined verdict was rendered G S L city march 4 1864 we the t jury called to inquire into the cause of the deia death cf dives on the night of march ad 1864 between the hours of 9 and ID 10 p in find by the testimony that said dives was an escaped convict from the penitentiary and that the he police were called upon and instructed by the warden 0 f the penitentiary to arrest the said Ver niam ulam aves dea dead d or alive and on the night afore said the policemen discovered the said dives on lat south temple street and called upon him to 0 o surrender which be he refused to do and endeavored to escape by running ile he was pursued by said police for about sixty rods being called upon several times to stop m which he refused to do after which the captain of the his bis posse to fire upon the said dives which was done rione several shots shota taking effect which caused the death of the said Verula ui dis dues es then and there as above stated WAL B ON CHARLES CRISMAN jurymen juryman Jury men B D Y HAMPTON 5 from various sources of information i we have bave heard beard of his big bold deeds of daring since be he left the penitentiary and we believe it was wag his hib b la int intent ent oo 00 with the aid of confederates to rob two stores in main street on the night of his bis death the officers have traveled over seven hundred miles after him in the various counties w where here he was reported and by night ni bt a vigilant watch had to be kept around certion p places I 1 aces that he had threatened with his bis vengeance he was a desperate man had bad threatened the lives of the mayor the sheriff and the officers who had ever avei had bad relations with him on friday the two saddles stolen from centreville Cen treville were found up a kanyon south ot of Em emigration gration and on saturday one ot of the stolen stoler horses was found on the bench his hia career was infamous and his end was aa blood we should have been glad giad to have seen him bim h nn finishing his bis probation with hard bard jabor labor and with the ball and chain but the officer officers 3 would have had little claim to the cites confidence fi if they had reported such a desperado escaped we hope that big bis end wll wil not be forgotten by those who live by iniquity |
