Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-08-16
THE GRIFFITH WARRANTS,
the HAN ACCUSED OF STEALING
THEN IN TnE COUNTY JAIL.

Ed. Cooper Was brough, back on
this mornings train BY the sheriff of
Bingham county. Quite crowd had
collected At the depot to see IL he was
really aboard the train, and - he
walked 10 tho bus most of the crowd
followed. He was taken to the
county Jail and put 10 q cell. lot of
small boys peerine through the grated
windows meanwhile, endeavoriny to
get look 4. him.
Soon after Cooper arrived. q TINES
reporter met Deputy Sheriff Sawyer
and asked if he could sec Cooper?
The deputy did not think that he
could.
The reporter said he would like to
see and talk to him, aud publish the
result.
The deputy replied, irrelevantly,
that there Was lots connected with
this case that the public might want
to know:
The reporter said he would return
in about one hour and mako formal
application for admission, and he,
really hoped that it would not b.
denied.
COOPER INTERVIEWED.
About an hour later the reporter
called At the county Jail. Deputy
Sawyer was just carrying in a dinner
on a platter, aud left the barred door
open.
The reporter asked: "May ! come
IMP" II suppose So" courteously re
piled tho gentlemanlv Sawyer.
The reporter shook hands with
Cooper, and said: "Now Cooper l
come TO sec you, to have you tell me
all you wish about this matter. 1t
would be unmanly in me to snesk>
inely seek to gain your confidence,
and have .on give your case away.
| therefore tell you candidly that what
l wish to hear is for publication"
Mr. Sawyer said something about
his lawyer having charge Of the case.
when, on inquiry, Cooper told the re-
porter that MI. Montandon was his
attorney.
Cooper then smilingly said he
would like know in what direction
people supposed he had gone?
The reporter told him that he WAS
said to have gone up Croy gulch to
Camas Prairie.
Cooper then spoke substantially as
follows: II went by Quigley Gulch, to
Muldoon, down Antelope to Era,
where stopped over Saturday night.
Early Sunday morning went on to
near Arco, where my horse gave out.
and I changed him for an old mare,
getting $25 to boot. had paid $65
for Josselyn's horse. In less than 20
miles the mare gave OFT, and the stage
coming along gave her to the driver,
If he would take me to Blackfoot.
got to Blackfoot about 4 o'clock
Sunday morning. A train was pulling
out, and in few hours might have
been in British Columbia. But l had
done q heap Of thinking about home.
my wife and baby. and concluded to
come back and straighten the matter.
In fact I realized that I should not
have gone away at all. So l went to
the Reeves House, registered my name
as Ed. Cooper, and where, FIVE hours
later, the Sheriff walked up and ar
rested me; l agreed to come with him
though he had no warrant. He locked
re up in Jail. and when the passenger
train came along we went to Poca'
tello and caught the train for Sho>
shone, snd-here l am.
The Sheriff of Bingham treated me
very kindly. At Pocatello We ste
like other passengers, and on the train
we ate in the diner this morning. No
one knew l was . prisoner, and the
officer treated me like . gentleman"
When he mentioned his wife Coop
er said, fervcntly. "She's the best
woman in the world" and he asked