| Show A COUPLE OF or the two I idaho dallo stage robbers in clit chicago cago on june wm win maya mays and heury henry the two idaho desperadoes of whom wo ive gave a brief sketch at the time of their detention in thia this city passed through chica chicago they were under charge of ET ES chase U marshal ko for r that territory and a deputy and were bound for auburn penitentiary r y new now york to which both have been sentenced for life they left on the evening train over the michi ican an so southern them road having spent A jhc thc e greater part of the day in the jail the two men presented a strong contrast mays was a tall I lo 10 loose ose J join boint t cd ed shambling giant with a blonde beard and blue eyes standing over six feet in his bloc kings and weighing over po pound unda was a type of the cowboys cow boys undersized IV wiry ry of build quick of movement with a sharp keen fico ewe rendered still shrewder in expression by small ft ferret re eyes both wore shackles weighing probably fitly fifty pounds around their legs were thick and heavy iron iron collars connected by a short and heavy chain slays mays Ali shambled ambled alone along as if tired and ashamed of his irons the shackles made apparently little difference to Over boltz who swaggered out of the jail into a carriage with a all the grace and abandon of a cowboy cow boy out on a te tear at A reporter of the 11 morning neva s learned something something of the men from marshal chase in in june 1879 the regular gular re stage coach that passed through pilgrim springs idalio idabo met with an adventure pilgrim springs is nothing but a station and consists simply of ofa a few shed houses fio uses it is generally left in charge of one man who brings out the horses helps hitch them to the stage and the coach then passes on its journey on this occasion two men stepped from behind the elied shed covered the driver with pointed revolvers and ordered him to come down ile ho came and while one one man bound hirthe other kept the he stage passengers quiet by standing ng at tit the door with a cocked revolver revolve r the stage driver was tied to a post as the man mail in charge of the station had been long before the stage appeared the passengers were then deliver iver up their money and valuables and the safe of the wells vargo company rifled of its contents the robbers originally contemplated waiting the arrival of the next stage which was expected in a few hours but that coach having met with aft accident did not come conic I in at the appoint appointed ea time and the robbers fled after having secured altogether about M oi of booty united states marshal Mars lial chase was notified of the roD robbery bery and started in pursuit of its perpetrators the crime crime was committed in a lonely spot on the great alkali desert it was some sometime time before ho he struck trail posse and then theft a long chase began tile stage robbers were mounted on fleet horses and well acquainted quain ted with the barren desolate country around they made for the mountains and would undoubtedly have escaped had not then their animals given out after traveling over miles A portion of the marshals posse came upon them so suddenly that they could not uso use their revolvers and were compelled to surrender the chase lasted nine days they were tried at the january term of the united states district dist t court for the territory of id idaho ii s sit ting at city cit r convicted convict and i sentenced to hard labor abor in t the le penitentiary eni tent iary for life on the of this month the marshal started with them on liia his journey F east ast bound forthe for the auburn penitentiary they reached omaha on saturday last on sunday morning shortly after the train tn in hod had left Boo bonneville neville iowa it was discovered that mays was missing shackled with over sixty pounds of iron he had lumped th through ough the car window while the train was running at the rate of thirty miles an all hour it was about in the morning but the mashal knew that ii his is man was nv lg heavily ironed and could not easily escape the train was s stopped to ed and marshal chase alighted otvis with liis deputy and r remaining prisoner is the first step was to picket all the roads and bridges brid gea A close search was then made of every bushi bush and hiding place within several hundred yards of where the prisoner had jumped jum nothing was heard of him until sunday morning when the prisoner was flushed by some b boys S in ft it barn not a it hundred d re I yards a li ii nom oin tile tho hotel wl whence lelice the marshal in rs lal was directing direct irig the se search arch ilis irons were off OIT however and lias has not the boys upon him hini he would undoubtedly have escaped that in it conversation with a reporter of tile aws ill in the boys department part ment of the jail mays saw I flad biad them irons sawed six months before wo fil arted how well lVell aman a man dont lont always need a saw avont v on t iron always cut iron I wanted them cut so that I could slip them wb when en I wanted to but it took me today to day light after I jumped to iet get them off oft I move far lar with avit i them on and ands somo olno boys saw me just abday at daylight how dida did I li jump 11 from the train feet first I got g cl clean can out before any one paw saw me A man mail will risk a good deal lea if he lie knows lies hes bollig to a pen for life andi would do it again f if I got ft a chance I mar marshal ayin chase stated to the me momma momi ing neu news s reporter that slays mays undoubtedly belonged to the james gang he lit was one of the men who stopped a union pacific ic train in colorado three years vear sago ago he ile was arrested on the charge ji large but escaped from the jail at cheyenne and was not heard from arain again a rain until the exploit at pilgrim springs 11 he e iff is believed to have been wen with the james mes boys in several of their exploits in in missouri notably that at gads hill his gigantic strength is supplemented by cunnin cunning and daring of no ardi ordinary nary kind Oyer is ft a cowboy but well known among the desperadoes of the northwest |
