| Show HORSE THIEF GANG ALMOST BROKE ff K OKE UP U V murdock killed by wyoming officer meeks likely to be taken any time and elliott behind prison bars carbon county officers make important capture last sunday A had planned holding up myton bank at the whitmore ranch in emmas park early last sundie morn worn ing Cla clarence renco elliott El llott a horse thief irom INy wyoming oming waa was placed under arrest he lie waa was found aslett in the bunk house by sheriff thomas P F kolter kelter under cheritt johnstone Johna tono and loll 1011 whitmore who had gono there about 6 tor for the lapress purpose of 0 taking elliott if found LI llott als w ia aslett when surrounded and commanded to surrender lie hoover how over stated that it if he been taken by surprise he would have put up a fight camo came price last saturday by way of cotton colton and taif former fornier reservation country when captured he was headed for colorado the stolen horses belong to ranchmen near evanston two too of the etolen horses were sold at helper with the money elliott outfitted with a new saddle rifle and soon after the tile arrest of elliott A 13 scruggs and E 11 II drannon brannon deputy sheriffs of evanston Eva naton arrived at price later they were joined ly by their chief john 11 ward sheriff of uintah county all three recognized in elliott an old time offender badly wanted in wyoming scruggs ie in the officer who some days ago shot and killed ab murdock Al near heber city 9 and who la is intent upon capturing bud meeks another notorious notor toun criminal and horse thief who had worked for years with At murdock tho the wyoming officers rm are of the opinion that meeks will never be taken alive he ile has hits so expressed himself since the killing of his partner murdock at walsenburg a week ago last sunday he is to reputed to have said maid to his sister well goodbye sister I 1 am going to get got out of this tills and when asked by his sister where are you going grid 1 I dont know but I 1 guess I 1 will have to climb A tree it is my turn next he ile is well armed and it is said by all who know him that he la to the moat meat fearless fe arles man to be found in the west and is to also a crack shot either with side arm or a rifle meeks bleeks has many relatives and friends in and about wasatch county and the opinion among off officers Is that he is not far away from the grub pile as expressed by one of the men interested in the capture of the fugitive it is believed now by the utah and wyoming officers that bl murdock and meeks were the laders in a well organized gang of horse thieves plying their trade between wyoming and utah it is alleged that they would tako take horses from froin wyoming and bring them to utah to dispose of and then drive a band back to evanston and sell them the three horses found at price are positively identified ns as some of the thirty held or more stolen from the ranchmen near evanston in the last sixty days two others of the horses stolen from wyoming were found in wasatch county one in the possession of ab ali At murdock when deputy scruggs made a good indian out of him and the other one was found in heber city and this one was also traceable to bl murdock as having been disposed of by him unless a man Is sure of hi his a position it will hardly bo be safe in any of the three counties uintah wasatch and utah for the present to offer for sale any of the horse kind in conversation with a representative of the advocate deputy sheriff scruggs gave it as his opinion that had At murdock not been apprehended and later killed the bank at AIMA wo ald have by this time been held up and robbed by At murdock meeks leeks and their gang scruggs has evidence in his possession to show that this tills was wait a part of their program when tho the myton section of country was reached oliver a resident of tho the nine mile ittle country boudat two of the horses from el llott the tho animals have been identified by a man named galbralth galbraith from near evanston as belonging to him as well as the one found in the possession of elliott fuller la Is to havo have no connection tion whatever with the wyoming thieves who have been operating lately throughout eastern utah sheriff ward and his deputies schug scruggs gs and brennon Hr ennon left yesterday morning with elliott for evanston Eva naton is to wyo elliott agreed to return with out the formality ot of extradition I 1 VU UIA lit IS 14 TAKEN to 10 i 1111 in iti I 1 SCHOOL blie riff thomas F kelter netter went to ogden last A monday londay with mecks buller under 18 year years of age who waa was caught in indian canyon early in jim june with ten horses in hia his pos poo ses Ke aslon pion puller fuller ivaa was arraigned in district court laet last week neek on oil tho tile charge ot of horse theft but waa was remanded to the juvenile court by judge albert 11 II ChrIst aniton be of being under ago age later fullers case came up before the juvenile bourt and he was ordered to the reform school deputy sheriff doll fausett accompanied sheriff kelter helping with two other prisoners for the penitentiary penitent lary and two patients for the mental hospital at provo fuller flitter confesses that since early last spring ho he had rustled horses with the hope of come day becoming a great horse owner ovner fuller according to sheriff kelter Is a bold and manly tort rort of aa an individual who knoer uli uis about horses can tie a diamone hitch on a i pack pick horse and swing sing a saddle and ride with the best bast of horse wranglers the lad like the horse rustlers of old had selected a mountain fastness in indian canyon for hia his headquarters and had loa oa stolen horses until he had a herd hera of ten complaints tr of missing horses in carbon county and vicinity aegan to como come into the ot of armed in preparation to fight As beginning of eummer summer some of the horses were traced to the vicinity of indian canyon when the plot began to thicken sheriff kelter reiter accompanied by under sheriff john tone stone rode down town into lad in canyon and found signs of t 0 14 missing horses the sheriff and his deputy thought they were confronted by bad gang of horse thieve thieves and were ice of sheriff kelter during the they rode up into indian canon can on they discovered some of the missing horses and finally fuller who was lying in ambush the lad had a rifle in his tits hand but made no effort to resist arrest lie ie Is said to have an accomplice of about his own years but like a true horse i rustler hae has refused to furnish ills big name |
