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Show BERTDALTON CAUGHT BY OFFICERS Bert Dalton, alleged murderer of Marshal Dan Hanson of Cokeville, Wyo., was arrested yesterday afternoon after-noon while stacking hay on a ranch six miles south of Sandy. Walter Van Fnssen, the othor fugitive trailed to this valley. Is still at large. " Hard pressed, hungry and footsore, Dalton had applied for work at the ranch late Tuesday and had slept the night there. Ho offered no resistance when ordered to come down, but throwing away his pitchfork, as if In contempt of its worth as a weapon against tho drawn revolvers of Sheriff Sher-iff Sharp and Deputy C. L. Shutled. he slid to tho ground on the derrick rope. Dalton was Identified by the brother broth-er of the murdered officer, F. E. Hansen, Han-sen, claim adjuster of tho Utah Light & Railway company, who was with the officers at the time of the arrest, and who saw Dalton at Evanston after he had beon apprehended for the killing. W S. Towmbly and Edward Mc-Minn. Mc-Minn. the deputy sheriffs who followed follow-ed Dalton here, became convinced ! yesterdav morning that their quarry I had laid" his course toward the south end of the county, and In company 1 with a deputation from the sheriffs office scoured the country about Mid- ; vale, Murray nnd Sandy. Information to the effect that a , man had boen hired on a ranch led to the arrest. Deputy Sheriff Towmbly Towm-bly declared last night that no start j for Wyoming would be made before 1 Walter Van Fasson has been arrested, or his trail lost completely. Dalton stubbornly refuses to discuss any I subject that might betray his partner. j "I simply won't talk," he said when j interviewed last night. 1 "Did you rido Into Salt Lake on a I Park City freight train the other night, leaving It In Sugar House?" was asked. i "No, I did not that is, I have noth- j ing to say about It at all." Dalton is tall, lithe and rather good i looking a typical rider of the northern north-ern range. He ijeems somewhat crestfallen over Tailing to mnke good his escupe, and Is plainly much exhausted ex-hausted by the rigors of his flighty oo i |