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Show Three Reformatory Escapees Captured By Panguitch Possemen Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Keith R. Weaver and sons and Mr. and Mrs William Hamby and family, of Ogden, have been visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cherrington. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wright and Sammy have been at the Lynn Dickinson home for two weeks and fishing at the Lake. When they returned to Calif, they took Lois Dickinson and Amy Henrie along" for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Rolan Chris-tensen and five children from San Pedro, Calif, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Schow. Visiting from Friday to Monday at the Schow home were Mr, and Mrs. Stanley Schow and daughter Sharlotte of Kanab. Beverly Church spent the 4th with )er parents, Mr. and Mrs. Champ Church. Wallace returned home with her from a three week vacation in St. George. Present visitors at the Church home are Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davis and family of Salt Lake and Mrs. Bill Sheldon and baby of Granger. Visiting at the home of Het-tie Henrie this week are Mr. O and Mrs. Arnold Jarman ot Orem, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wade and daughter of Long Beach. California, and Mr, and Mrs. Glen Adams of Provo. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Sevy returned to Cheyenne, Wyo. after a week's visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine E. Sevy. Holiday visitors at the Sevy home were Mr, and Mrs. J. Nolan Stokes and family of Cedar City. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Sevy and family of Pleasant Grove visited with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sevy for the 4th and all made a trip to Pine Valley. Other recent visitors at the Sevy home were Mr and Mrs. M. E. Odegard, and Mrs. Sevy's brother Allen Pollock of Escalante. Mr. and Mrs. Noal W. Dol liger and two daughters of Sandy and Mr. and Mrs. Quince Alvey and children ot Las Vegas were recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Tillie Clark. Mr. and Mrs. John Owens of Covina, Calif, were weekend visitors at the Wallace Miller home. Other guests ' Captured escapees pictured at Garfield County Court House in Panguitch, left to right: Harold Williams, Ron-aid Van Cleave, and Donald Gene Turner. George Middleton point to bullet hole in door of abandoned car. r were Mr. and Mrs H. B. Mc-Gougan of Ontario, Calif, who enjoyed fishing .and sightseeing here. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyter received word that their daughter Belle (Mr. and Mrs. Dean Smith and family) of Spanish Fork are vacationing in Des Moines, Iowa and No. Platte, Nebraska. Jerold Henrie and friend Ferald Jepson of Salt Laxe were guests of Jerold's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boyter, for the 4th. Visiting Saturday at the Boyter home were Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Boyter and family of Mlners-vilie. Shades of the old Wild West -Panguitch was it last Friday night and Saturday morning, complete with gunplay, a turning out of vigilantes, and final capture of the 'bad men'. George Middleton, City Marshal, started things off Friday evening when he was returning home at 11:30. He saw two strangers on the road in front of the Frank Daly home. George stopped to question them, but they refused to stand, both headed east along Second South, taking to the side of the road when George tried to follow them with his car. George attempted to pursue on foot at which one kept on eastward, and the other turned back toward the Daly place, and an automobilo which a third member of their party drove to the rescue. Officer Middleton blasted off a shot at the movirfg car, hitting it. It seemed as if the driver tried to run him down ; ( -- this was later denied, the driver said both he and his t passenger dropped to the floor when the shooting started so no one was 'driving it as it hopped the ditch and too a chunk out of the fence around the Brandon Shakespear home. After losing contact with the elusive strangers, George sounded the alarm and enough armed men to start a small-sized civil war turned out. Road blocks were set up, and an abandoned grey sedan was found on River Lane. It had a bullet hole in the right hand, front door, and was :d entified as one which had been stolen from Pearson & Crofts in Richfield. Since the strangers were now known to be afoot, anoth " ' ' cr alarm was sounded to ln 5 crease the size of the posse and a house to house searcn was instituted. Mrs. Owen K. Walton of the New Colonial Motel reported s two strangers cutting across the fields from River Lane and starting northward along Highway 89. About 6 a.m. Dee Veater and Sims D. Duggins picked ' up one of the men at the city dump. He carried a slip of paper which gave his name a? Donald Gene Turner, 21, and advised him that his sentence in the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, Washington was for five years for burglary. A call to the Reformary cot the names of the two companions with whom he had "walk ed away" from an outsids group of prison trustees. They were identified as Harold Wil- Hams, 22, (in for check charges) and Ronald Van Cleave, 25 (in for burglary). About 8:20 a car load ot possemen, with shotgun and rifle barrels protruding from every window, were going north along Highway 89 when they were thumbed for a ndo by two strangers. When questioned the strangers said they were heading for Flagstaff (but in the wrong direction. They were brought back to Panguitch and soon admitted their identities. Van Cleave had been woun-ded in the side, either by the spent slug or from bits of metal torn from the car as it passed through. The three men were taken to Richfield late Saturday to face stolen car charges or to wait officials from Monroe. |