| Show CAPTURE OP OF A HORSE THIEF PRICE emery co utah sept 1883 1885 editor deseret news our oar quiet little burg burp was last thursday aroused from its usual peaceable situation by a party who were traveling through the country on their way to oregon who came to town and reported that a horse had been s stolen tolen the day previous from their camp about thirty five miles east cast from here the owner of the horse was anxious to get et his animal back and while speaking to a crowd of people present he offered the liberal reward of for the capture of oe yie thief and the return of the horse our respected townsman and farmer charles johnson who Is of a very quiet disposition and never says a a great deal after a moments consideration remarked 1 I guess I 1 will take your 11 he was soon authorized as deputy constable by bl the proper authority tho rity and shortly a after t ter hs gigantic form was seen on a horse slowly making his way out of town in a southerly direction as though he was taking a ride for the benefit of his health it is a general custom among such meers officers off omm of the law when going after a desperado to arm themselves to the teeth but it was different with friend jon Joh Jo jonnson naon unson he went on his way without any weapons of any kind relying upon his ph physical s ical strength of which a wise providence provine ce has meted out to him an abundance he traveled through h huntington castle dale and perron ferro n creek and by inquiring found that his man was only a short distance dl stance ahead of him he traveled along and arrived at a place called muddy 70 miles from here about two at night where he nap hap pend pene pent d to see by moonlight the harse la in question estion estton tied to a corral fence our au deputy deputy concluded to camp by the same corral so he took the saddle off his horse and sitting coolly down called in his wandering loughes thoughts I 1 and reflected on past present auff and future A moment after he noticed some bed bedding baddin din 11 close to the house and supposing somebody slept there he paid some little attention to the moving of the quilts about daybreak on friday morning the man in the bedding had perhaps had bad sleep enough and moving about in the quilts uncovering his face to see if the sky was iree from clouds but suddenly a voice from our unarmed deputy came like ilke a rushing of many waters arms up young man I 1 and although the thief had a heavy six shooter at his side the command given by mr air johnson was promptly obeyed the man in authority told his prisoner that he guessed they would both return to price as he thought thee they had a little urgent business to attend to la in squire McInti res office to which the prisoner consented and on their return they started 1 but lo 10 and behold I 1 on the road between muddy and ferron creek the prisoner snatched from johnson the thy six hix shooter which the deputy had bad taken fram alm aim and was carrying himself and attempted to escape but the officer grappled with him got hold of the weapon and after it had been once discharged without doing doino harm to either of them and after a fall 01 to the round ground the prisoner again mounted very little was said but johnson told nim him kindly if ile he made an other attempt like that he would get hurt nothing happened happ eneil enell to mar their peace during the balance of the journey and they arrived safe at price yesterday isun jC Sunday day afternoon this morning at nine the prisoner whose names george wright was brought into tinto the justices court where be he plead guilty to the two charges preferred agai agal against liSt rist him grand larceny and attempt to disarm ali ati an officer and judge j ud C E NV mcintire bound him over in ithe sum sam of lam lom 1000 to ap p W pear before the P grand jury y in the e first firs t judicial district at provo the bond bon d not being f furnished urnis hed the deputy will tomorrow take his man to provo OUR agent R G lambert of the business department of this office will be found at the fourth ward coop store main alain street logan utah during conferences Confer conference encel where he will re ceide subscriptions forthe for the weekly and weekly aws ws order orders sor for the tb standard works of the church and ana i all kinds of print and wrapper er paper pacer I 1 we commend him to the lend kind attea attend e I 1 tion of our friends frienda |
