Show IDo I Do You Recall Kidnap Case of 27 Although It occurred almost St 81 years ago many will vividly r recall caU the exciting episode of or the kidnapping of or orEllis Ellis Search and pursuit pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit drew scores of ot s into the hills Stan Taggart The It Records Record's Outdoors Editor reconstruct reconstruct reconstruct re re- construct the episode In detail On a quiet September evening in 1921 1924 Union Pacific train No 20 chugged through Echo Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon on Castle Rock Tunnel emerged in a ball of ot smoke from its upper side Elde and made a sudden lurching lurching lurching lurch lurch- ing stop Fire had been spotted by the engineer engineer burning burning on the track directly in front of at his train Then another of ot the crew pointed excitedly at a nearby telegraph pole Nailed to the pole he had observed was a printed crudely-printed placard On this card the men found were instructions ordering them to ta drop money from the express car when they heard one pistol shot Then according to its di direction direction di- di they were to proceed on their journey ey when two additional sh shots ts were were fired tired Hearing no shots and seeing no noone noone one the crewmen calm but be bewildered bewildered be be- Investigated the area I Near by they found three five- five gallon cans of gasoline but nothing else that appeared unusual unusual un un- un usual So shrugging off the unaccountable unaccountable unaccountable un un- accountable accountable fires and the placards placard's pla pla- placards placard's cards card's bold orders the perplexed men re-boarded re their train The big engine jerked wheels creaked creak creak- ed and the long conveyance rumbled rum bled laboriously ly off oft again toward Wyoming A skinny bI headed bald little littleman littleman littleman man who had been crouching behind some near by sages had at the lat last minute lot lost his hi nerve I lie In stood stool up and shook hook a fist at the disappearing train scolded himself for hU his own lack IlUk of courage then picking up a 1 b bug bag g lean began to walk slowly slow ly down Echo Iho Canyon A few days later the mysterious ious taus sharp featured wanderer turned up at a railroad tunnelling project west of Devils Devil's Slide In Inthe Inthe Inthe the summer of 1927 he left this job anI and drifted up Weber Canyon Can yon to Coalville After a week or ten days In that quiet community the un- un train robber robbe began hikIng hiking hiking ing lout s uth over the mountain to toward toward toward to- to ward Park Park City On July 1 the day after he left lert he be happened onto Jared sheep camp in Carruth Canyon T The Q only two p persons in the tamp camp campat at the time Ime were Jared's JILTed's 13 year year- earold ear old son Ellis who was rather small for his age and his 10 year- year nephew Lewis The stranger asked asked the boys for tor food explaining explain explain- ing ing- that he was traveling over I the mountain looking for work I IThe The boys prepared him a meal meal- meal meal- I then gave him additional food to toI Ii I carry along his his' his his' way i Resuming his journey the man came a aday day later upon u n t live tc tent camp of the Union Construction Construction Con Con- Co in Sll Sliver er Creek There he got a road-building road job but quit it the next day because he didn't like the food ContinuIng ContinuIng Continuing I ing on up Silver Creek the restless restless restless rest rest- less drifter came to Park City where he hoped to find employ- employ I ment in the mines He lie learned I that no Jobs were available there Sitting down dejectedly on a hillside above e the town the dis disappointed II lis- lis appointed little man commenced ed Id to divine a sinister scheme Pulling l a few scraps of ot pa paper r from the pocket ket of ot his rugged nagged shirt he be began to write think then write He spent severa severaL Jays making his roundabout return to the Jared camp taking the time to memorize the various trails and to familiarize himself himself him him- self with the mountainous terrain terrain terrain ter ter- rain over which he backtracked two Twenty-two year old herder Lloyd had just ridden outto out outto outto to circle the sheep that Monday afternoon of July 11 when the slightly built bald paled wayfarer er or reappeared at Camp Once more he begged food and Ellis and his cousin Lewis obliged ed preparing him an additional sack of foodstuffs when he appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ready to move on Without saying a word theman the thC theman man picked up the camps camp's two guns iW guns guns-as a pistol and a rifle rifle rifle- and strapped them on his bLI body Then n WI as Ellis handed him hint the suck sock of ot food the food the drifter brandished brandished brand brand- his hil own revolver and ordered or I tiered dered the youth to accompany i I him Little Lewis terribly frighten frighten 1 t I ed cd bounded off Into the brush screaming for his brother Lloyd I i The Tho terrified child soon located Lloyd and the pair pall hastened back toward their camp Ellis Bills and the stranger were nowhere to be seen seton when they arrived there minutes later and as Lloyd glanced nervously about the place one strange object caught his eye Dropping from his horse he grabbed up a fat white white- envelope j ope from a a. large rock in the center center cen cen- ter of ot camp Scrawled with a ai pencil on lined InEd paper and ad addressed ad ad- dressed dressl to Elliss Ellis's father the letter letter letter let let- ter read I If It you want to save the life of ot this fellow Richens take ten ten- thousand dollars two dollars two thousand I In United States gold coin and ana eight thousand 1 in F Federal eral Reserve Reserve Re Re- serve Bank notes of ot the five fhe tf ten and twenty dollar denominations equal amounts of ot each each and and do with them exactly as we tell you Continued Continue on T Three ree KIDNAPPED t I I e 3 lr A FRIGHTENED BOY Ellis BOY I broke chain e escaped ire 1 Ir I If 4 f P F nail Sally Dean plans foiled he be diet died In pen 4 e i t 31 x e. e s SOLID CITIZEN F. KHU FJUs il Jil h hI I Itoda I toda today ho luw vivid Idel memories KIDNAPPING troa fre One Orel t Mi r 4 l m i to 1 II live 1 re- re reIf If It our out o orders rs are not Mt atri strictly obeyed We Wet are are a as aa de deter deter- r- r mInded as aa war and IU LU treatment can In make u us UI There will be no M second chance to save him HI iff 0 lf It effort fitton ok tv a Whatever w U a. made e. e P lo re I cuo t ay pre pre preparation Is Is made t tare or Jd Us W UI b he wilt silt be liU be-liU ate t It If these ese Instruction ar are mode made made public pubU or or given to the officers b before fore the Ute money is delivered the themen themen m men men n delivering It will be held up by some sortie sope other par party y and the pris oner oher wit wil be killed He twill be at liberty within I six hours after the money is is' de de- our Instructions grub are afe clos closely ly followed On the Ithe night of July July- 13 1927 at nl nine nina thirty ocl two tovo men and no rrt n o 0 r l' e e m l-m leiV Ech Echo r f In t an an automobile carrying the money money and drive ov over r the Lincoln ljj Highway from front ther there t to alt by way of Coal vill vW and M Wanship A 11 A lighted I lari lantern J t rn rii m must si b be kep kept kepton on led just above tl bo of the car car on the the flight right han hand L side Ide J. J I ff 1 It I 1 is absolutely n necessary I l this W. to kept secret a it It would 0 give anyone anyone's a tip tap atop aop you oli and take JI If It they knew It 4 ra ri a arive i ial al 4 l rive t st i.-fi i. Drive ri at at a a moderate moderate rate the tet 91 l tte ap pe When n- n en you you h eart l two I f ah a of or f two o apart p tt stop f the car caf TWO 1 more more sho shots wili wi D be f fired 40 t indicate ate t that that h you j are areat at the ri ht place Hh Thee Jay 1 the tite m money 0 n e y I J white just on the the the j highway on on the ri right tr drive on to Spit Salt t Lake City r After 1 daylight light day date back over ove the same road ou You wilt will see seea a wl white while He flag one one or two hunt hundred ed yards yard from the road i-i i I With the white flag will be be-a be a a aletter lett letter lr just where where the pris pris' oner win will be f jv f He us if rI W. W be a l i ja ui- will yUl ally v f e nd U lf j demands demand e 4 a strictly uy eom complied compiled with with It f they 7 are aIe not he U De d Any y lingering about place ce wh where ie money money is to be delivered d. d or any delay in delivering Y r It will twill willbe il ilbe be taken as a refusal to obey bur orders Any ot other r p per St ri nv or slowing down d there t wit wH be shot J i t t Make all aU necessary necessary detO detours f S but no others Drive Drive over over ver th the road theda before so so soo you you o w ho how Jp p get t o over yer er it without going g II too far around I We take It It that you want to save the man If It net we will allo alloy r him to leave you a last message which will be found with his body the next day Better keep this matter entirely entirely entire entire- ly secret to avoid future grief Take our advice e or you lose 4 4 K At the time the he th e light family report report the kill kid naping Summit Sheriff Joseph C C. C Clark was in Provo ort 0 official f Recd ying tile the alarming report by e. e Sheriff Clark rus t f ed d loin Im m- m mediately News News' t p. p f chiles h l capture traveled 11 f at an d dozens z ns of armed men m m J y the 1 mountains that t afternoon t ft o I B By night 1 eve available av available l ble I man in C r VU d from malls had joined into one one s p er Sheriffs from Salt and Weber Counties jUso joined dl in the manhunt man man- hunt 4 Salt Lake k td lu which sent five dep deputies tae l e mountains mountains mountains mount mount- ains to Coalville Saw saw t to it that all approaches to the Capitol city elty were carefully guarded guarded and and that all alt traffic was halted for Invest Invest- i Not a single firearm remain m J Jed ed eel In Ia that d daj r TiU aU 11 I were being belag utilized utilised bye byh V b thel tel tor eold eyed cold eyed mn i h we were l fanning out Into lato the hjo Df n of Summit County County- hunting down aa as far an M they new rw as l i entire band of kidnappers I year Thirteen EgUs Us lIs JUchins JUett- JUett ins the object of of the t I Intense me serch later recounted i Molar l lt har harrowing ear af rowing travels with abductor as follows The nose crooked-nose man poked a gun in my side an one h he would shot me if I 1 made a sound und We walked and walked slaying upon the ridges and going In the direction of Snyderville Valley He said dad had left him some money over on the highway and Del that we were going over to o pick it up When the moon finally went down down down-at at about 3 o'clock in the the morning morning we we stopped at last Theman The man built a fire tire and cooked some some soroa bacon and baked some bread VP vi w wate ate a some me of the food tood that he had carted In the sack too The weather wea W- weather wea- wea ther waS was cold up that high and he gave me his hie coat Just before daylight ho he chained m tie IDe to 0 a tree UN and we wo both went wen to 0 sleep there deep there on oni i I l I 7 It 1 rt S A w the the tiIe k of 01 uc Canyon I w k Jo tell few Ie m minutes infante Da t baled taWa iii J 1 b tab re t i ale up hot iii he idi V r 1 t rl 1 tJ 1 He Heco cocked lt his hll pistol I told me meto to 0 b be 1 quiet and t d sn dc ft th the d aw w a little w to e eg edge g ofa f t e b b if j Yal l tit lK the b b 1 hen the p i man mad tame came 1 Up o over th the steep hill hll he he e m t J L e hd big hg man manee s BUh t t rg t a Then Mn th guy th the one of l-f a ao chained mer jumP tree o out t of th the tAe iWa kL iM the seated scared mans man's rifle rine Het He made He-made d him n nr raiser raise r l his hands r i and searched searched search search- ed j him Then be stuck tuc 1 t pistol In the poor prisoners prisoner's back and made raade him I march march off ff the hill hili like hed he'd J e e l'-de l' me I II I n. n I saw w that they were seere Y OI e. e eon eon- u. u I I. I grabbed upa Wp p pk I lt k and began brgan n. n hitting UM the It to t. b bi Po PoI I J I Jr grabbed grabbed the b cad e nd d p-f p PU j tom a J. J Jp p do down J t Y l. 4 a 4 fut fret sa 1 1 Ie 1 L. L n r t 1 Dot AboUt bolie a h mile down the canyon burst rt b breathlessly ea Into into nt the tamp camp of the he u il Construction r asked aske asked ta ta coif call ll M tria mother and and tell teU her her that he was was' s fe t his sId dad d' d td f get him i J T Tried Then ri t I i b weary leg nit l 4 tS last lt d down down down- wn surround eil d ate hearty a meal me t ir 1 J Just 5 minutes later ter at boys boy's excited paredes parents lu arrived at the camp amp and nd were joy joy- oust sli with with- their SO soni ti yr 1 M I I 11 is I t t rift 7 17 4 o has bas been Uie n o t ter te enee of my my life 1 mother r iBId teaH tearfully 7 I iii Is t the e t e f th tM ci 1 C OI camp p was t Coma O IJ The home ome j just across across' the the street t t from theco court court- 1 1 was was thronged t ng by by y friends who d the family and want waat ed r toi to- to hear tr the lads lad's story Autol Auto Auto- O j jammed n ned med t the e. e street and the tho W was fuss swarming a s with ni men 1 f I t 1 V-u V II r Delp D p in n tie the mountains aM f far faress farless r rl l less ess sS fortunate though though was posse posse- V yie s IRe the the one mem- mem b jeer r. r of the party whom m fate hid had singled singled O out oat f to f c crass cross n with Ith the tt Mr He Ij and anti his son on VonN Von Vol N Voy Y lJ lf 18 had be beeh n- n p through and K Kamas nias as as' as salesmen for the N Nurseries r Upon h a of the hunt forthe for the kidnaper k t the e H HealyS alys h had d' d asked for tor and ald v were were re issued rin rifles s by byShe She Sheriff riff rift Clark Then they together with hotel keeper A. A H. H Atkinson were assigned to climb Tollgate Canyon from the Construction camp The three men traveled about a mile into the canyon and were brushing yards when Mr Healy was in the center center cen cen- ter ter suddenly found hinis tar star Ipg down the he ba eL oft 4 thet thel they kid kidnapers kidnaper's naper's papers r r Jd r changed ats s IY threw w whim him to fi searched l him then started start t pr gl the horrified man i up up f the mo n ln 5 j side h i 4 I l t I. I BAs As J da daylight come l' l lI Healy Mealy aly and I I his ilS IJ abductor w through I the sh silently I but steadily Cla crawling lIl g on In their e and knees and r routes Q each ach ch time t they ey heard the theof voices of f others In the the he net 2 i 2 4 hours hoUll they hey ey travel traveled over cover over five mlle mites oily reaching the sum sum- mIC of foot root 10 foot L Lc Peak Healy was w dM a breathing heavily and fell feU down to relieve ve his burning lungs The two men talked as they rested on the peak The kidnaper 1 y Interested in inre n res re rev eats s and told of t lt l Rant am i uin ln n lu m a youth and ot of t church But Butoli oli J his tl first i rip tip Q 1 out aa IS a sheep herder In 11 sj ne f I l a friend friel d h had d gJ j eR n him a volume of of Ro Robert rt rs l and Lead Bead Beading rn ing I t l It had hadT turned hint him hl Into an ai r- r rY Y k I J r I I Then at 1030 a am m. m the therl I Ier er JY Tasked ked Heat Healy what he fie 1 would to If it he were In his Ills place n t i I IId I Id stay tay right here await awalt tJ 1 of posse poMe members and give myself up up Healy ad vl J You J You cant can't escape pe The hula hills are full lull of 01 men on root foot I and IU horseback j The man then softened his at |