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Show I - - PIONEER SHERIFF KILLED IN MINE Was Wounded in Battle With Notorious Bandits Rewarded Rewar-ded by State. Azariah Tuttle, former sheriff of Emery county, was killed Sat-urlayina Sat-urlayina mine near Downey-ville, Downey-ville, Cal. Mr. Tuttle was about sixty years old. His body will be brought to Salt Lake. It will be met here by his son, Mark Tuttle, traveling state auditor, and by his daughter, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence Nelson, daughter-in-law of State Superintendent of Schools A. C. Nelson. From here the body will be sent to Orangeville, Emery county, for burial. Mr. Tuttle leaves a widow, who resides in Orangeville; three daughters, Mrs. .Nelson, Mrs. Mabel Richardson and Mrs. Gladys Rixey, both of California; Califor-nia; and a son, Mark Tuttle. It was while working in a mine, in which both he and his son-in- law, Mr. Richardson, were interested, in-terested, that he met death. The particulars of the accident were not known'by his relatives in Salt Lake at a late hour Saturday Satur-day night. Mr. Tuttle served for many years as sheriff of Emery county, coun-ty, and in that capacity rendered signal services to the county and to the state. He was active in the rooting out of the Robbers' Roost g ng, a notorious band of cattle thieves which infested the , southern part of the state some years ago. Some fifteen years back, the jfc then Sheriff Tuttle learned the WBIiwwhereaboutaofthojflibanditJoG, .. Ct-, - Wnlkcr, who had started into the I Robbers' Roost but who had doubled on his trail and gone back into the Mexican Bend 1 country. Mr. Tuttle led a posse ' I into Spring canyon of the San I Rafael river hot on Walker's 1 trail. 1 The bandit's camp commanded I the approach of the posse and, 1 when the latter came in sight, they were subjected to the fire of the outlaw. One of the bul- lets severely wounded the sher- 1 . iff, whose followers left him for i dead and retreated. It was only I after thirty-six hours that they 1 returnel to discover that the wound had not been fatal and to carry him home. Joe Walker escaped, but was killed some time later in the Book mountains, quite near the place of his encounter with Mr. Tuttle. The latter recovered from the wound, but the bullet, which had pierced his hip, caused him to limp for the remainder of his life. I It was in consideration of in juries sustained in this fight that the last state Legislature passed a bill giving Mr. Tuttle $2,500. This bill was introduced by Representative Seely of Emery county. It is a strange coincidence coinci-dence that the bill should have been introduceu by a man who gave Walker a meal on the same day that the latter shot Sheriff Tuttle. Mr. Seely was then a young boy herding sheep in the Mexican Bend country; Walker's identity was unknown to him, and when the bandit approached, S rifle in hand, and asked him for food, Seely shared his rations , with him. Herald Republican. |
