Show RECENT ROBBERY RECALLS FORMER Yellowstone Stages Were Held Up in Summer of 1897 LOCAL MAN ON GRAND JURY R R. R W WI Wanlace Tells of Capture Capture Capture Cap Cap- ture of Daring Bandits by Soldiers The recent up hold-up of 17 stages stage Inthe in inthe the tue Yellowstone park by y n R. lone Jone highwayman high high- wa wayman man who succeeded In getting away with all ail the tho hoot booty an anti and has hai so JO o far managed to cap capture lure recalls Ih the only other r occasion affording anything anything anything any any- thing approaching a R. parallel In th the th o annals of ur crime In III the Yellowstone In th the summer of ot 1891 13 stages wore were hold up UT in ono otto forenoon by hy two men between veon Yellowstone falls and anti Norris basin mid auld notwithstanding th tin most extraordinary efforts to capture then them succeeded ed In eluding the law for or two weeks before being baIng eventual ly taken b by llY a force orce of or soldiers j just lOVer Ilio line In Montana Following Urn the capture a Cd federal grand Jury wt was wa's at Che Cheyenne Chey Chey- enne of which Tim Tul Ihme tho thie well well- known ol of f Roc flock SI was tho the foreman and amI Tt n. W. W at present ll connected with wHit the tho Comi- Comi Oil on company of or Salt Lake Lale was on one of ot the tue Jurymen ni BI Big J lr l. l I r 1 remember the tile occurrence nce well wiil said Mr lr Wanlace on Saturday and antI there was Just Juat as LUI much excitement following tho commission of time they crime as thero was when news of tho the last up hold-up reached Salt Lake two weeks ago Howards 8 were offered and anti nil all II kinds of oC thief li hunters joined In tn tho tue chase Clues kinds wore followed followed toll fol tol- fol- fol l lowed and fresh fregI evidence cc Was V s sun un un- un unearthed every da day but ut it remained for Lieutenant Adams of ot the thc United States arm army with two privates and a scout named med Taylor to finally effect the tho capture It U was just juat about two weeks after a cr tho thio crime e when the party of four tour came caine upon evidence which confirmed their suspicions of two mon inon who lived for tor months In a small hut iJ in the park Following the the thero ro robbery cry the pair moved across the border Into Montana and there proceeded ed to live live- along ulong quietly minding their e 11 own business and interfering inter inter- feting fering with no on one An tn e investigation however convinced the lieutenant am and his party that the two men might very well be bo the perpetrators of or the crime an and they were accordingly placed under arrest They offered no rc- rc although stoutly maintaining their Innocence of ot any knowledge whatever of ot tho the hold Their capture capture cap can ture left leCt little room for fight and nd upon digging about a little not nol far Car from the cabin enough loot was found to Lo definitely establish their guilt I Identify Their Theil The Tue prisoners were taken to Mammoth Main Mam moth Hot springs and there lucid held pending the the- action of or the secretary of ot the Lite Interior as to which state slate had jurisdiction in the matter Wyoming was finally given jurisdiction in tho matter an and following the preliminary earing li before the tho grand d Jury they Uy w rc lri tried c convicted n an and s sentenced nt nc d to to seven years ears each A number of those who wore lIu- lIu r J 1 1 pr property from rom the plunder cr dug up near the cabin The TIle grand Jur jury hall had no other oilier cases case before it II and following rollot its fin finding ing in the case of the ups hold was ivas released from further services Tho The two men meui t 1 up the stages 3 In a manner very similar to the tactics employed ed by b the more recent proto proto- type ype Both wore hoods of or black over o their faces and one gave o the orders while the other held the sack There were no iio very cry large individual losso mo most t of 01 the tho booty consisting of watches and other Jewelry with an nn occasional small roll The Tho excitement following the tho crime was tremendous hOc However and I everybody morp mort freel freely freel after the cap cap- Luro turo was made matIc and tho the inon men finally lauded landed In prison |