The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-03

were adoat to keep the officers vigilant.
When the officers came in they were
notified that the police were now ready
! to let the sheriff take up the case
where they had left off and the tired
watchers and riders were sent home
to obtain whatever rest they could.
I The most conflicting stories were
about during the day. Somebody
would father a rumor, and before half
an hour it would spread along Main
street and into the various Offices
/ Stories were retailed by every man
DESTROYS for a moments notoriety,
and nothing was ever lost in the
/ telling.
Queer Yarns.
( 1t was alleged that in the meeting
J in the morning near the Hot Springs,
the boys had surprised the officers
and got the drop on them, telling them
/ to move on 1t was then said that
I they proceeded to move on for two
miles, and then started back in pur-
suit of the boys, who, by this time,
had moved off towards the foothills.
A story also went the rounds that
there had been no fighting in City
I Creek canyon. ] was said that the
officers saw the horses, and thought
the boys were in the rocks, beginning
TO shoot Immediately and keeping it
up. 1t was explained that the boys
had abandoned their horses and struck
out for the canyon. Both these
stories, however, came from sources
| hardly reliable, and are denied by the
police officers who were in the events,
all of whom are reputable men, not
gwen to rOmancing.
Another story, which had improb-
ability written upon it, was to the
effect that the boys had come down
town last evening, coOlly walked along
Main street, and taken supper in Gal
{ Tigers restaurant. MIR. Galliger knows
nothing about it, further than that
two strangers, answering the descrip-
ton of the boys, came in. 1t is prob
a BILE that they were sheepherders.
Another man said he saw a man an
sWering the description of Coughlin
go into the Valley House bar, look
around suspiciously, glance out Of the
door, come back and order glass of
beer. Probably another case OF mis-
taken identity.
Reports of Captures.
All during the day rumors of all
kinds came to the sheriff'S office and
the police headquarters. Boys answer
ing the description had been seen in
all parts of the city and surrounding
country. Telephone message on tele-
phone message came in. At one time
IL was said positively that John NJ
Young and Detective Franks had cor
nered the two men in schoolhouse
at Big Cottonwood, where they had
been found sleeping, and this was I'M
plicitly believed for a long time.
Another report came in during the
afternoon that the officers at Bingham
had captured the men. As Detective
McMenamy had come from that
country but a short time before this
story was discredited.
Another report came in that the two
boys had been seen up in Dry canyon
by a man who knows George. Some
credence was given to this, as the Of
ficers believe that on Thursday the
boys were too tired to have travelled
very far They were known to have
a cabin and cave in Dry canyon,
where they have hung out before.
During the afternoon report came
in that the two men had been seen on
Fifth South and Eleventh East early
in the morning. Later on Taylor, the
dog catcher, came to the station and
reported that he had been informed by
Bishop WarburtOn's son, who claims
to know George. that the two men had
been seen early in the day, making
their way south. He Immediately
started off and went down the west
Sltlt OL 1llDtIlA Ddik 10 tUlil 0OulH,
where he says he met d team, with
farmer and his wife in front and the
two boys in the back, and they said
they were going to drive off and get
some saddle horses. They were going
east. Soon afterwards another report
came in that farther east a wagon had
been seen with a couple in front and
the two boys sleeping in the back of
the wagon.
"Seen Riding West"
Later in the day another report came
in that the two boys had been seen rid
ing west over the Jordan, on two dark
horses, barebacked. AS this accorded
with the theory that they were max
ing for the ToOele country, some Gre
dence was given to the story How
ever, as it was known that the sheriff
of TOoele county. who has done some
good work, before this, was in readi-
ness to receive the boys, nothing was
done.
These are samples of the reports
that came in from all sides. 1t appears
that every stranger seen carrying a
gun and dressed in a rough fashion
was mistaken for the BOYS and they
were positively located all over the
city and surrounding country
One OF the most positive and 'excit-
ing rumOrs came during the evening.
1t was said positively that a man had
come in from Mill Creek with the re-
port that the outlaws had been cor
nered by posse and both had been
killed, but not before they had done ?
little killing on their own account. and
laid low Deputies Smith and Gibbs and
wounded Deputy Steele. This. of
course, was laughed at because the
two men reported TO have been killed
are far away from the scene Of trouble
These are samples of the things that
bothered the officers all day. No head
or tail could be made of the stories
Many bore semhlance of truth. others
were utterly absurd But rumors and
stories were all that the officers and
public in the city had all dav and
they were swallowed with avidity.