Show STOLEN BERRIES Ws ri answering toe the renegades' renegades d de- de pass pan their house bouse at e a an easy gallop One of them carried a rifle fine Cradled in his arms fit s' she observed while the other cam carrle one rifle rute over his saddle horn a one strapped by his side Salt Lake Headquarters ee sent ei deputies riding through the nig nIght to Decks Deck's Hot Springs north northtown i of town where they were ordered I to hold bold up tip and keep a close watt watch Later two deputies were sent I ISalt to Salt SaIL Lake City's north bent bench while two more moved oft off Iowa towai toward City Creek Creck Canyon An addition additional eight lawmen scattered out to U t the west Still more men were staked slake out at the homes of Coughlin's And Georges George's known friends mends ar ah and relatives City Police Pollee Chief Donovan deciding to participate In th the manhunt as assembled a detail o olive of five live city policemen and mova moved out ut In a patrol wagon toward where Farmington-where where the fugl tives had last been seen leen It wai wu till still an hour till daybreak whet when the city officer officers passed palled Beck Becki Springs Spring As they approached 1117 a jr passed a convoy of ot 37 57 vege table wagons which were moving toward Salt Lake City with the their produce About a half mile beyond beyor J Dog Farm Donovan Donovans squad went around a turn an ar and onto a a. a group of four tour more vege table wagons Tuey Tiley were square squarely alongside the third wagon when suddenly they saw them I Yard Hard fifteen feet away on the opposite side eide of the road loomed the fl III fig ures urea of two horsemen their horsemen their rifles thrown across their saddles an at and pointing at the Intruders Eve Even EvenIn In the pre pre morning morning darkness tb U the horrified policemen Instantly r reo cognized the mounted forms s as C Coughlin n and George There was chaos inside th U the patrol wagon as the frantic lav la lamen law men grabbed wildly for their we wea pons pans City Police Chief ono an his team into a wide swooping turn missing the ie re vegetable cart by bare Coughlin and George who h ha spotted their pursuers Instantaneously oisly sunk Bunk spurs spins Into and galloped off into the darkness their composure tl thE policemen bounced off oft in hot pu pur suit Finding that the outlaws' outlaws trail soon coon angled off into the moun mountains tame the officers sent to the city for six horses They received received re reo but two and Chief Donovan Donovan Dono van and Officer Janney started starter off up the mountainside on or them High on a ridge four foul hours later they met Chief of ol Police Pollee Pratt and Detective Shannon The foursome had dim climb c I be beabout e about a thousand feet higher uthe u uthe uthe the City Creek ridge when who vrho was in the lead spotted tw two unsaddled horses horbes yards ards above The horses were standing before a sheer cliff cUff which jutted sharply sharp to the summit of the mountaIn Near the tile horses horsed surrounded b huge buge boulders the forms of tw two persons were plainly visible Pratt slid from his horse an ant and leveling Ic his hia rifle at the large larger figure far above aboe e him called lour loud Jy Jl Throw up your hands Coughlin Cough lin In The figures stood motionless Pratts Pratt's 70 45 barked and the slug alu sheared an oak brush limb thIrty feet beneath tie human target The report of Pratts Pratt's rifle was wai still til bouncing across the wide wid canyon when a bullet struck the thi covered cobblerock-covered ridge beside hIm and whined into space apace Then ping another zipped lipped over his hl Lead Pratt fired tired again just a as hit his fellow officers came puffing over the de he rugged slope behind him Horse Horae Is la Shot Upon the sudden appearance ol of the other three officers the two youths began running toward their horses horsell As Coughlin stepped to 10 the upper side of his mount Pratt Trait and Shannon fired A ball oj of lead ead thumped into the saddle and through the horses horse's body four tour inches below its backbone Coughlin Cough yin lin fell backward as the wounded Animal Sprawled down through the manzanita Regaining his feet Jie le followed after aller the stricken aol ant mat and hurriedly removed Its Us bridle and blood blood- splotched blood saddle At the same flame time lime George removed Ike e rigging from his horse horae which sad had bt become tome lame Then heavily laden Jaden with guns tune saddle bate bars bridles blankets blanket and saddles saddle the keys boys took flight Ignoring the ray cf of lead which peppered the j rocks they struggled struggled u tip up nod safely eMely over the jagged It n required fifteen minutes for far forthe the officers to scale cale the precipitous tous lous mountainside and when they re reached bed the summit and canned the slopes Conghlin and George were nowhere nowhere no no- where to be t een been Officer Janney caught raught George horse borse and started hack back toward the cit city with it H lu- lu tending leading to return immediately with armed reinforcement reinforcements Moving cautiously down into Pratt and party part found Sound the boys boys' Huddles hardly yards fords from the top A little further fur ther then below they found blankets 1 then bridles The exhausted boys had soon oon discovered the Im Impracticability practicability of carrying anything but guns and ammunition through the dense underbrush The cautious cautious cautious cauti cauti- ous pursuers proceeded no further fur ther then but instead crawled out onto a small point and raked the area below with hundreds of rounds of ammunition Plenty of Help Reinforcements came from Salt Lake and tho the enlarged group I scoured the entire area At 11 o'clock that night another full fullI I shift of men arrived at the scene They watched the creeks and passes passes until sunrise anticipating a 1 move by the boys toward cover habitation new mounts or food and water They saw nothing The next afternoon Captain Donovan led a third force of officers up into City Cily Creek vowing to bring Coughlin Cough and George In lt dead or alive Posses from Morgan For For- and Park City also alBo moved Into action The giant group of searchers Inthe in inthe the Wyoming area expressed surprise surprise sur prise upon hearing of the City I Creek fracas They were certain that they'd located the despera desperadoes does In Lost Creek 30 miles south I lot of Evanston I Isun Still sun another day passed with no trace of Coughlin and George I Dr By Dy now eight Utah sheriffs and and their their posses were in on the manhunt man hunt hunt Sheriffs representing Salt I Lake Weber Summit Davis Utah Wasatch Morgan and filch Rich Counties were all an baffled and j amazed amazed The Dime Novel kids had seemingly vanished Into thin airI air air I I I Slept In Cemetery Meanwhile Coughlin an and George had bad sneaked from City Creek over into the tho mountains of Dry Canyon then on down to Salt Lakes Lake's Mt It Olivet Cemetery where they spent the night The 1 following day they moved very ery little little hardly enough to account for lor the dozens of rumors which circulated Some Sonic told wild stories I of ot being help up UI and robbed lobbed bythe b by bythe the hoodlums Others swore voie that thit they'd seen Patsy Palsy G Coughlin n with Ith ar Is girls of the the town There Ther were vere reports that they bet were at atthe atthe the the penitentiary U ry s a vii u r r r l' re e e en n d e ring themselves that they had taken takena u a train for fOI Chicago that they had st stolen len the officers officers' U h horses horses rs s and escaped on them One widespread version erslon was that of Chief Chief of Police Pratt had hael been killed killed- Ca' Ca Captain Donovan mortally wounded and that the boys were well welI on their way to Mexico Coughlin and George spent the day uneventfully in a a fruit or or- chard They slept that night on Jack Gilmers Gilmer's Ranch at Salt Lakes Lake's eastern outskirts Getting an early start the following morn morn- morning lug ing the footsore lads moved Injun In InJun n- n jun style over into Mill Creek By Dy noon half a dozen reports of ot their presence in that area had reached headquarters Most proved proved ed unfounded Many alleged sight sight- hoi hours bons rs lags were ere not reported until I after they had taken place bading had bad hading ing lawmen to suspect that tae boys were being aided by n A tym ym- pathetic public I Farmers Farmer are Armed That afternoon a 1 man who I claimed to be a slight acquaint acquaintance ance ante of Coughlin's told police that hed he'd seen the youth near neRr the I East Mill Hill Creek Church hurch House Thirty armed farmers gathered and began brushing through the larea area East Mill Creeks Creek's Constable I Calve Calvert rt went to Salt Lake re returning returning re- re rel turning with six detectives and n a pack of bloodhounds Men were now cow maintaining an around around the the the- Clock vigilance at Provo and Heb- Heb I Heb-I HebIe i e er Deputies Deputes took up guard duty iu in Provo Canyon and along the Salt Lake to Provo County road Others were placed along the Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan River filver to prevent a possible passage of the boys to the south The searchers at Mill Creek were i often very close to the hiding youths On one occasion two detectives passed pas ed within but a n few f f fet t t of eOll and and their dog log logHe He act actually t ally ran up tip to the brush and stuck slack its nose against the boys boy's rifle rille He Ire lay motionless Horses Stolen I Evening passed nl night ht fell and anda a disappointed and disgusted band baud of seekers villain villain seekers returned to their hon homes Shortly after 9 0 J p pm p.m. in too l t 0 horses vanished from the ilie hitching rill rail In lu front of Man ay Ci City's YS Y'S Union Pacific Saloon al Il T The Te e neat ne t afternoon afternoon a man who had slept the previous s night northeast of Tooele told of being aw awakened I at at about 3 am by a.m.-by by two hoi horse horse- se men well well armed armed pall pair here re ported had inquired as as to the direction of Officers noted that th the 3 descriptions of horses and men men tallied Futher- Futher more they reasoned the the mile 20 distance between Murray and the theman's theman's theman's mans man's camp could easily have been covered since the disappearance disappear disappear- I ance of ot the horses Then it It- was learned that a Carfield Gar Car meld field man had observed a similar pair of horsemen that night Also that at 4 20 am a.m. that morning two riders had approached Bishop I Moss's Ranch ten miles west of ot I Garfield Rousing Moss's year 12 lod old son they had asked for and andI I r received ved further detailed direr dons The search became concentrated concen concen- concentrated and Intensified Drag Into Camp CampIt It was when the weary pair of fugitives dragged into the camp of the Third Term Mine south of Cold Cold- eyed miners at once grew suspicious ous of the tb clothed shabbily un tin unkempt kempt young men but feigned outward outward out out- ward appearances of unconcern The boys approached miner Ruel nuel Barres Darres and asked him for food Darres Barres led them Into his ca cabin lu Seated faring fading the door Coughlin consumed consumed a large mea meal including nine large slices of sourdough bread George experienced a suspicion sus sus- provoking provoking nervous spell I just Just be before Core starting his meal and anda andale a ate ale te very little I Then the bo boys bos s emerged ed from the cabin climbed on the their horses and disappeared Minutes later I aft after r talking with a group of his companions fuel Ruel Barres Darles mounted a horse horse and headed for fOI Grants Grants- where yule where people had been on the alert for Cor two or three days daysI I by no now noAt At S 8 p pm p.m. m. m Danes Banes rode upon two sentries II ar r I I. I en n of his supper with the outlaws Somehow the men realized r rea e a t 11 I z zed e d Coughlin and George had slipped past officers on duty further up the valley Darres Barres then hastened directly to Grantsville with his story A posse was formed there and It left town before daylight the following morning Boys Boy Overslept As they started up South Willow Canyon the Grantsville I group was wal Intercepted by a spec spec- ial tal messenger He informed them that Sheriff McKellar's Tooele pone pOll having received word of the boys boys' passage through Garfield Gar Oar field had ridden 20 miles south I and was now blocking Johnson Pass Pau Ruel Darres Barres J J. J P P. Mecham John and five tive other Grantsville searchers branched off and began their manhunt from Cram the spot where the desperadoes had bad last been seen Riding out ahead of the others ethers s Mecham I chaill and spotted a pair of ot horses near some cottonwood trees waved to the men behind i and all but Mecham scattered through the brush above and below below below be be- low the grazing animals Edging li In closer closel Mecham began to calli call i out fake orders hoping to convey the Idea that th there re vas as a large laige I force with him Then they spotted coUghlin and George George yawning yawning and stretching obviously having a had hal I JUt juil nut awakened d. d The boys Iannell to se arl-se at aliU Lc c i tor bur tae Lie Nevada lIe desert I out nut hall had 0 overslept er 1 I he cut loose with a uj y 01 un tire lire hoping to drive I hem out Into the open Coughlin appeared from a thicket Barrea Darres called for him to hold up his lianas anus and he c complied compiled Tough To Surrender I lont Tont shoot Coughlin cal calm calmas l i as and Barres Darres approach approached n ned ed him Then he asked the t lo tai lomen v men Inch If tr they were sheriffs in LII learning that they were not Dot as ase eJ I If It he was sate with them Upon being assured that he was in good hands Dds Coughlin breathed a sigh of relief and stated slated bitterly This is the first time Ive I've had hada a chance to surrender like a man without being shot down like a dog I It was shoot or die at Wahsatch Wahsatch Wah Wah- satch and City Creek McKellar's Tooele riders had had now arrived on the scene acene and the combined groups combed to the un- un la to quest of otFred ot Fred George Several silent ellent minutes passed Finally SH McKellar e became impatient and warned that he would pop him full of holes if tr he didn't lo locate ate his younger partner and him to come out of th the brush Coughlin went down with McKellar Mc Kellar and calked to George several several sev sev- eral times assuring him that it it wasn't that Salt Lake Posse that was seeking him out Finally yards below the confused contused group a tearful shaking smooth smooth- faced boy climbed from a wash IP in the creek with hands raised high The captives were handcuffed at 11 II am a.m. and were delivered to lIle Grantsville by noon There both expressed regret that they had hall got such trouble Double Many Curious Onlookers Throngs of of- curious people swarmed the railroad station upon the prisoners arrival in Salt Lake Laker and many lined the streets to watch natch as a staff of officers them ort oft in a horse-drawn horse buggy to the county jail The following afternoon they were ere taken before Commissioner l ner Sommers ammers 0 where herl they pled lIed not guilty to horse n and nd maintained main tamed their I loin nut IKO of the Uie Continued on 01 el l' l Pago Pagel I. 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