Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-26 | Page 4 | When the Furey Gang Was in Ogden

oo WHEN THE FUREY GANG WAS IN OGDEN. The bungling attempt of a released convict in Salt Lake to secure for John Furey, now in the Utah penitentiary, peni-tentiary, his liberty by signing an affidavit af-fidavit to having been the man who robbed Finch's cafe in 1909, recalls the escapades of the Furey gang in Ogden during what was known as the "Cut-off days." The Furey gang had been robbing box cars and holding up wayfarers from the Pacific coast to Ogden, along the line of the Central Pacific. The criminals created a reign of terror in Nevada and were equally successful in terrorizing7 the people of Ogden The sway of the desperadoes continued contin-ued until they were trapped in the Ogden House on lower Twenty-fifth street. In battle with the police, Furey escaped, but his identity was made known and later he was trailed trail-ed to San Francisco, captured, brought back and sent to prison. Chief of Police Browning was in office of-fice at the time, and his successful pursuit of the criminals won him merited praise from the police force of every city where the gang had operated. The Furey outlaws had begun a career ca-reer of robbery and murder which, had it not been cut short by a capable, fearless police force in this city, gave promise of rivaling that of the Dalton gang. The "Butch" Cassidy dare-devils were never the menace to life that the criminals, headed by Furey were when they drifted into Ogden in 1903 and started out to holdup, rob and kill.