Show 11 TRADED TRACED THE TRIO Duril burglars irs it in I 1 I VIllard getting fl a warrant hunting alio llio sits peets searching tile packs discharging the prisoners on oil the tile night of the tho seventh dinst the willard coop co op store charles j hardin manager was broken into by burglars who got 1 away with two suits of clothes and ind about 20 in change other goods being turn bled upside down the manager could not at once ascertain whether any further depredations had bad been committees commit teed suspicion reste rested dupon upon three strangers who had stayed over night on the premises of abraham zundel blacksmith and left early in u the morning bound south boutin sir fr hardin got on the earliest train for ogden and on oil arriving here wore out a search warran warrant t before justice C F middleton against the three unknown men believing them to be the robbers late in the afternoon of the fth belcia the warrant was handed to sheriff wm brown the tile latter had bad learned that three men with pack animals had passed through town but instead of going straight through 11 main hain had turned down first el street till they got to young whence they turned south as far as L eighth then turned to main alain again these nicander meanderings ings coupled with tho tile report from willard aroused tho the She sheriff rifT and he lie followed the strangers on horseback striver at river dale ho lie learned they were about balfan half an hour ahead of him the sheriff sherif T rode on as far as its kays ward to what is called farmers union from mr air bolder the blacksmith who has a shop close to the road the sheriff learned that no such men as he lie was in pursuit of had bad passed the time being far advanced sheriff Sheril brown put up tp for the night keeping a sharp lookout for the mysterious trio in ili the morning mr brown returned northward on another track what h i 4 called the road after a ride of about three miles lia lie discovered several horses by some wheat slacks stacks in a field he ile rode down there and saw paw near the animals saddles and packs the whole whole having baving the ap appearance 1 barance of a temporary camp and at the west end of one of the licks ricks of wheat three men were sitting engaged in manipulating their meal the sheriff rode up tip to the breakfast dispatching group bidding them good 11 morning Orning which they returned inviting the new arrival to partake odthe of alie earl early collation mr brown acquiesced and got off liis his horse noticing at the same time that the men inen were well armed lie stepped up to oue one of them who was 21 sitting I 1 a little off and told liim lie had a warrant for their ar r rest est whereupon poll they made a quick i ic k move for their wea weapons sheriff brown however had been there i before and he lie disarmed one the others li their pistols pointed at the officer but dropping them on the peremptory demand of the tile sheriff Sheri fr the one whom mr brown had disarmed rushed to the pack which lay off about three rods and ot a needle gun which however fie lie laid down upon the officers oui cera persuasive ui remd remarks the sheriff then proceeded to the bear beard cli emptying all the packs and sacks carefully and minutely but finally ascertained that they lad none of the boolen goods he ile thereupon dismissed the three men with a note to mr bolder certifying that they were not the parties wanted I 1 and the strange I 1 meeting came to a peaceful easeful close without any shing shedding ed i of blood the foregoing are the true facts of the occurrence learned from froin mr brown hini himself self the reports circulated in town before this and published in au all exchange arc are erroneous ili in several particulars ars mr browns statement as made in the foregoing is the first authentic account of the affair the account of mr brown having disarmed two of the men at the rencontre emana ted from the men themselves 4 as told by them to mr bolder |