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Show BURNS' SI AYERS Safe aud About Ready to Appear Ap-pear For Trial. SO SAYS AB. K0FJF0RD, A Brother of Mone Both Murderes Were :-Hit When the officers Shot at Them Last Fall Stickle Suffered Most "We Have a Hard Name," Says Ab. Last September's tragedy in the mountains east of Spring City, in Sanpete San-pete county, which resulted in the killing of Sheriff Burns by Mone Kof-ford Kof-ford and James Mickle has not been forgotten by the people of Utah. Any and every newspaper report concerr- I ; .U n Tr,UnnnUtr, C V. I iijg Luc nuDicouuui.3 ui mo uuuiueieia and the livelihood of their being brought to justice is read eagerly, hence the following taken from a letter let-ter published this morning by the Salt Lake Tribune from its Mount Pleasant correspondent will be of interest: Ab. Kofford, brother of Mone, who may be indicted for assisting tl'e murderers mur-derers to escape from the officers of tie law, was interviewed yesterday by the correspondent. HeBaid, in reply to the question, "Where are the boys now?" that they were out of the jurisdiction of the United States, and had no fear of interference, but as they were anxious to have the matter settled, set-tled, and as tuey believed that public opinion had quieted down, they were wiiling and nearly ready to give themselves them-selves up. The boys did not get out of the mountains until late in the winter, but fared veiy well. Mone received a wound when he and Mickle were discovered dis-covered and shot at, the bullet cutting his right side, but had entirely recovered. recov-ered. Mickle, however, had suffered considerable from his wounds in the wrist and eide, and was yet troubled with the injury. The parents and families of both boys have known ot their whereabouts -11 1 '1 u 1 . . : . l j au uioug, auu, n.u auuiiiieu, uau assisted as-sisted them, lie further said that his brother and Mickle have been approached ap-proached to surrended at various times and were nearly induced to do so last tall, but they were fearful that they could not get a fair trial, and Mone finally decided that he would never give himself up until positivelv assured as-sured that public feeling had died down. Tnrough the families, legal assistance is being secured, and as soon as a few more details are completed. Kofford and Mickle will appear in court. Ab. says be is certain that an effort will be made to indict him as an accomplice, but would now reserve his side of the story until later. am not afraid," he said, "to tell all I know concerning concern-ing the tragedy and the boys at present but no one will believe me. We have a hard name, and public prejudice is against us." gJHe would not tell where the boys were, but a smile greeted the questioner's question-er's suggestion that they were in Mexico, Mex-ico, lie intimated that if be could be assured of a fair report he would answer an-swer all questions, but desired a more private piace. He expressed a grievance griev-ance at the newspaper reports of the affair, and when told that the reports were in conformity with the facts as ascertained, he said,"Ye," but no one had offered to present their version of the shooting. |