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Show IDENTITY OF THE IDVALEJUTLAWS Salt Lake, Aug. u The Identity of tho two highwaymen, still at largo, who murdered Night Marshal Frank A Cololough In the Vienna saloon at Midvale Wednesday night has been established definitely, Is the belief of Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp. "Jack" Callahan, Cal-lahan, 30 years old, and "Jack" Murphy, Mur-phy, 32, are the men the sheriff accuses. ac-cuses. Yesterday, circulars bearing the ?1,000 reward offered for their arrest, together with their description descrip-tion and habits, were mailed broadcast. broad-cast. Acting upon information received Monday, Sheriff Sharp Is setting a trap for the alleged murderers in a distant slate to which it is believed they fled. Representatives of the sheriff's office are on the ground and every hour tho sheriff expects information infor-mation that the arrest of Callahan and Murphy has been accomplished. Their movements have been traced and he believes they cannot escape. That C. A. Gammett, accomplice in I Uie murder of the Midvale marshal, who died Saturday of wounds received receiv-ed In the affray, has revealed the Identity of his companions during a period of consciousness is denied by tho sheriff. Gammett's effects showed that he had worked as a miner in Bingham, , and this led to tho discovery that Callahan and Murphy were bis prob-ablo prob-ablo accomplices. Callahan, the sheriff says, is the brains of the gang and that Murphy Is the official gun fighter. 11 Is the belief of Sheriff Shaip that Callahan, Murphy and Gammett were responsible for several crimes in Binghnm Canyon and MIdale. Information In-formation has been received which seems to Indicate that they perpetrated perpe-trated the holdup of the Yampa saloon sa-loon In Bingham several weeks ago and later held up Vincent's saloon in Mldvalo. It is also believed that they held up and murdered Andrew Erlck-son, Erlck-son, a FInlancr, In a lonely recess of Dingham canyon early this summer. sum-mer. The trio of alleged highwaymen appeared In Bingham early in June. They worked off and on In the Highland High-land Boy mine Their movements caused suspicion, but Investigation Indicated they were ordinary miners. After the "Midvale murder, their absence from work and the fact that they abandoned their rooms evoked suspicion A search of their rooms revealed damaging Information. Monday ove-nlng ove-nlng the sheriff and his deputies obtained ob-tained a postal card photograph of "Jack" Callahan. This discovery was attended by the discovery of evidence that Gammolfs companion, the bandit ban-dit gunman, whose pistol battle with Marsha) Colclough marked him as a desperate outlaw, was Murphy. Description of Men. "Jack" Callahan leader of the gang. Is described as thlrtv years old, five feet seven inches tall and about 1C0 uounds In weight He Is dark complexloncd "Jack" Murphy is said to be thirty-two thirty-two years old Murphy Is light complexloncd, com-plexloncd, with coarse features. He is five feet ten or eleven inches tall and weighs 1C0 pounds. The past history of Callahan and Murphy Is as clouded as that of their accomplice, Gammett. It Is not known If they arc ex-convlcts. but their operations aro said to show them to be bandits of unusual daring and skill. At first It was thought that Gam- mctt had onlv one accomplice in the Vienna saloon holdup. Investigation proved that there was a third highwayman, high-wayman, believed to have been Callahan, Cal-lahan, the leader, who stood In the doorway of the saloon when the pistol pis-tol battle raged between Colclough and Murphy. Callahan is said to hav0 fired two shots at Colclough from tho doorway |