Show Sheriff Fife Fifes Fife's t s Bullet Ends Career of Western Desperado V N WOMAN WHO O HANDCUFFED FIFE TO 10 O TREE DEE c cf UCE F FOUND 4 OF CAPTURED F O E SwiN LOWINa GRAVE Eg OF FROM IRON IRAN REGISTERS COUNTY WREN EB EU BY MAN SHE THOUGHT WAS DEAD J The The be search for the who handcuffed Sheriff Lewis R. R Fife rue to toa a tree near the H ke mine last week when he attempted to apprehend apprehend apprehend hend them on onca a wool stealing charge ended Monday when morning me and other officers captured Margaret carter Carter carter car car- ter on a ranch In the Arizona strip and found the body of John N. N Jack Weston buried in a crude IPa grave ve his death having been caused by a bullet bullet bullet bul bul- let wound inflicted by Sheriff Fife I before they overpowered him and left lett him to his fate The finding of Westons Weston's body not only brought to a close probably the mist desperate and thrilling criminal case in history of Iron county but also closed the career of one of the west's most widely hunted criminals Weston has been wanted by Federal Authorities for several years on charges of counterfeiting kidnapping automobile theft and various other violations and to Sheriff Fife goes the credit for capturing a criminal who has thwarted the efforts of the police forces of a half dozen states Weston was wanted in California for kidnapping a police officer and mobile theft was a parole violator from the state penitentiary of Arizona and had served two terms in the Washinton Washinton i ton state abate prison He was quiet widely known in southern Utah and on the Strip and at one time lived in in Cedar City I The woman an is now now lodged in the county jail jaU at Parowan and will be brought to trial within the n next few days before Judge LeRoy A. A Cox on a 1 charge e of with intent to coma commit commit com com- a mit t murder which carries curies a penalty of five fye years rears to life Ute Imprisonment The case case will b be prosecuted ted by county Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney Scott Matheson and District Attorney Ellis Picket Charges for violation vio vio- lation latton of federal statutes will be with withheld withheld withheld held pending the of the trial POU Following a tip that the man man and woman woman woman- were somewhere on the Arizona Arizona Ariz Ariz- ona na Strip Sheriff Fife left Sunday with I Deputy Wm Dalton Sheriff Wm Brooks and deputy John Joh Cottam of Washington county and trailed the thes s suspects to the ranch of George Westen Weston Wes Wes- ton ten broth brother r of cf the slain man CampIng CampIng Camping Camp Camp- ing near the ranch Sunday night they went to the ranch early Monday mornIng morning morn morn- Ing found Sheriff Fifes Fife's car hid Inthe in inthe the thick Umber timber and near by was the grave in which the body was found They They then surrounded the house and captured the woman who g I give v her name as aa Margaret et Carter JI r. r wh n D captured cap cap- she showed great s surprise at t seeing sheriff Fife alive Uve baY having thought that he would he-would would p pew where she had had left him tied to the tree The woman was taken to St. St Q O and Tuesday morning sheriff ve life deputies Dalton and Cottam attorney Scott Matheson and Special Ate Arent t Merrill MerrUl federal officer from the sat get Lake Leke office returned to the ra ranch Ch where an inquest was held by Juttee of the Peace Roy Bundy The Tile body tody was positively Identified as that thaI of Jack Weston and after finger p prim etc had been taken the body fillS age again buried burled The body ha had J been bem In a sheet placed In a shallow grave and covered with dirt din and nd branches of trees in an apparent ef erfort erfort er- er fort at concealment of the grave gra rise rile burial had apparently been madi read by the woman One of the hand handcuff on the man when he escaped from Fire fife had been chiseled off off but the her h r still remained The woman at first refused to talk Lalit but later reported that she hM had driven directly from where she left lett tt tto 0 o the ranch of Westons Weston's brother she he neared reared st. st George she took Veston Ves- Ves ton from the oar car hid him under a bridge then into o St. St George and secured c cotton and as asps aspirin to treat the injured mans man's wound according ac according according ac- ac cording to the report of officers She also secured a hammer and chisel and removed one of the handcuffs handcuff The officers report that Weston last q oke to the woman near Wolf Hole about t tone one a. a m. m Wed Wednesday and apps 7 died soon JOOn soon after after- as he was waa de Uben t n the ranch was reach reached d early Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day morning They escaped from File Tuesday Tuesday- Tuesday morning The woman divulged hiding place laCta of loot and Sheriff Fife Sheriff J uen of Beaver county Sheriff Theobald of Millard and Sheriff Brooks or of Washington Wash aab ington county left yesterday for Jera- Jera da cia to investigate and attempt to tp re recover recover recover re- re cover the stolen property They Thel are expected home today Mr and d Henry nr grit rt of i ithe the Federal office In Salt La city complimented Sheriff Fife on hi hb fine work Taggert stating that Fife us used d das as fine judgment throughout tile the entire entire entire en en- tire case as I have seen In aU all ny 1111 experience ex ex- |