Show m TIES TAKES T BAD MAN TO IN IRONS Frank Lyons On Way to Big Basin to Break Up Gang WAS PARDONED SATURDAY Officers Are Suspicious of the Prisoners Prisoner's Willingness to 10 Return Frank Lyons Ions pardoned by the tho state board of par pardons Saturday was t taken to Basin Wyo Vo yesterday by d Cusack Cusack Cus- Cus ack deputy deput sheriff of ot Big Horn county county coun coun- ty for tor tho the purpose of or aiding the Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming officers in breaking up a gang of oC cattle rustlers an and highway robbers which has terrorized terrorised the state for several soy sev eral years ears past growing stron stronger t r and moro more desperate during the last Jast tw two to years under the tho present leadership o of Silver Tip one of ot tho most notorious frontier outlaws In the mountaIn Inter coun country tr Lyons as ho Is known to tho the Utai is known us t Robert I I. 1 to the tho Wyoming officials for tor it wai wa un under that name that he traveled durIng during dur duro ing the years ho he was con conducting outrages outrages out out- rages raes in Wyoming aided by bL a tl ate band of ot criminals Lyons OnH wa was handcuffed when ho stepped 1 on th tit thc train with Cusack and will w bo be carefully care full fully guarded until he Is turn turned ell overto over 01 to tho the Wyoming officers and placed in Jail at nt Basin There has hns been beon some somo fear rear that the pals of ot Lyons or Stratton would woul 1 come cometo cometo to his assistance while ho was being taken takeS to Basin and for tor this reason the prisoner will viii bo be most carefully watch watch- ed Lyons Lons agreed so readily to the plan of ot the time officers to take talco him from tram tho the Utah tah prison for the time purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of ot breaking up UI the tho gan gang of ot which he ho was the leader Jeader for years cors that it was believed there was some purpose in his action Officers Officer Arc tre 1 Suspicion Owing to the past reputation of Lyons it has not been hen easy to harmonize harmo h nize his willingness to turn states state's evidence evi dence in breaking up lip tho the outlaw bund b by his hla own evidence It was for tor this reason that there was Wl some hesitancy on t the he part of at the Utah p pardon hoard board to grant the requisition of Governor Bryant S. S Brooks rooks of Wyoming for the thc return of the man who was a n prisoner I In tho state penitentiary hero here for a n value crime committed In 1900 But nut the of ot I Lyons's testimony was deemed so Important and the tho Wyoming officials were M so o eager to have hove outlaw In their hands that tho the pardon board nail finally consented to commuting commuting- the sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence of ot I Lyons ons so that ho he could coull betaken bo be taken at once Into Deputy Sheriff Cusack is alive to the situation and will take ev every r precaution precaution tion to see that his prisoner does oes not escape and that his friends do 10 not liberate lib lib lib- erate crate him Tho lean Jenn lanky deputy sheriff from Big DIg Horn county count has hns a record for arrests and gun un lights which Is not to be 10 despised and anel is considered ered one of ot the best criminal catchers In Wyoming It was waR for tor this reason that Sheriff Felix Alston of Big Dig Horn county county county coun coun- ty sent Cusack to take Lyons back to toY Y Wyoming with Itt him nM aM Saturday Tho The board of ot pardons made it possible pos pos- ethic sible for Lyons Lons to leave la the tho state prison Saturday night but Governor John C. C Cutler Culler dl did 1 not sign the requisitIon requisition papers until lotOn Monday ay At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon Deputy Cusack started for Basin with hl hi prIsoner prisoner pris prIs- oner declaring that the Wyoming of officers of- of with tho the aid of oC Lyons Lons would WO now be able to break U un up tho the worst gang ang that thal has ridden tho range ranSo for many man years cars |