Show THE SLAYERS OF SORENSON The Tidwcll Brother and John Auilersoii iu the Pen Awnitinga New Trial The arrival of Thomas and Frank Tid well and John Anderson from Provo last evening in the custody of Sheriff Turner I brings tolnind the arrest of those aries I i t last Spring as being implicated in killing la j cattle man in Southern Utah by the name of Sorenson The defendants were i I tried before Judge Emerson at Provo and the trial resulted in a conviction of r i I murder in the second degree on the part I of the Tidwell boys and manslaughter in m I Andersons case Owing to Judge Em ersons retirement from the Utah bench the motion for a new trial was not heard I until a few days ago and the prisoners j t were brought here foi safe keeping pending i pend-ing the new trial to be heard before Judge I Powers at the September term of court As near as we can learn it seems that the defendants met Sorenson and big man Toedt who were driving a band of cattle towards the Colorado line and L from all indications had paid for them and come by them honestly The defendants de-fendants who owned cattle in that neighborhood neigh-borhood had lost a few head a short time I before and went through Sorensons herd IL L to see i they could find any of them and i seems they could not About this time a heifer that had been killed or was to have kied supposed been I killed by Sorenson was lying back on the trail over which his cattle had been driven driv-en The heifer was found to have had her ears cut off close and the brands cutout cut-out and was quite fresh Sorenson claimed the heifer to have been one owned by mm me preceding year nut I which had been lost I seems that upon their first visit to I Sorensons herd the Tidwell who had been informed that Sorenson had some stray cattle did not mention anything about seeing this heifer They went to Blake City and in a general conversation mentioned to two men by the name of Hall and Staples that the cattle were all right and the indications pointed towards the correct supposition that Sorenson I came by them honestly The following day theTidwells were accosted by Staples I and asked i they were going out thereafter there-after the cattle again and answered I in the negative saying that they were going in a different direction I Shortly afterwards the Tidwell boys and John Anderson who claims that he went I with them merely as a witness came upon Sorenson and his man Toedt driving drving I the cattle and informed them that they I had some of their cattle Sorenson got I mad and told them that they were liars and that he did not have any cattle but I those which belonged to him The Tid well party apparently had come heeled with firearms with the intention of using them in any emergency and though the testimony was somewhat conflicting in regard to the motive of the attack it was clearly proven that words led to a free use of pistols and that Sorenson was shot from his horse and killed Frank Tidwell and Anderson having fired at least one shot each Toedt according ac-cording to his version of the affair had I been dismounted at the time of the tiring his horse having run oft and stopped I about fifty yards away was finally caught by him and he was ordered to go back by the Tidwell party They also told Toedt that Sorenson had fired at them three times and showed him the empty shells The Tidwell part then rode through the band of cattle and singled out a heifer as theirs and drove it off Thomas Tidwell and Toedt brought Sorensons body to the railroad a short time after the killing The others brought I the heifer into Blake City where she was identified by Staples as being one that he had bought from Frank Tidwell and which had been taken from him the same day and branded by Frank From all the evidence in the case the killing was done by the accused parties and they were convicted on their first trial but in the trial some other facts the may case come out that will materially alter |