The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-06


lin are few, and the condemned man
has come at last TO fully realize the
terrible situation in which his misdeeds
and crimes have placed him.
When Sheriff \. H. Dickson and
Deputy Sheriff McKenna of Rich
county, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
Steele, and armed with an order from
Judge Hart of the First judicial dis
trict went to the state prison yester-
day afternoon to take Coughlin to Rich
county TO be resentenced, they found
the once bold bravado a very meek,
subdued and thoughtful person. He
has entirely lost the air of the bad
and utterly depraved desperate which
characterized him during his trial, and
for a time after he was convicted and
sentenced to be shot.
He was delivered over to the officers
from Rich county and departed with
them for the north on the D. n.
train.
WILL BE RESENTENCED.
He will be taken before Judge
Hart at Woodruff, who viii re
sentence him to be shot, the supreme
court having refused TO grant him
new trial. The date of the execution
was originally set for Tuesday, De-
cember Is, and it rests with Judge
Hart 10 either stick to the original
date or fix another date not very far
ahead.
il is a general custom all over this
country that executions take place on
Friday so that day OF the week is
sometimes called "hangnan's day"
and il is possible that Judge Hart, in
Difference to the custom, may change
the date upon which Coughlin will ex-
plate his crimes.
The shooting viii be strictly pri-
vate affair. The crime having been
committed in Rich county Sheriff Dick
son of that county will take Coughlin
to some secluded spot within the
county and there he viii be shot prob
ably six marlksmen shooting, one with
blank cartridges and the others with
leaden ball and powder Which of
the shooters will get the gun with the
blank cartridge nobdy viii know, SO
that it cannot afterwards be told who
of the executioners fired the fatal
shots.
The place where the execution will
take place viii be kept secret in order
TO prevent the gathering of a crowd of
morbid curiosity seekers.
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
The crime for which Coughlin is to
pay the penalty is the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Dawes and Constable Stage
early in the summer of 1895.
Coughlin, who is about % years of
age, had a partner in the crime named
Fred George. a youth of about 20. He
was tried also for the murder, found
guilty with Coughlin. but escaped the
gallows and was given a life sentence,
which he is now serving in the peni-
Tertiary.
The two young men were accused of
horse stealing, and warrants for their
arrest were issued and put into the
hands of the officers of Summit county,
where that crime was committed. The
young men escaped TO the mountains,
and were pursued by the officers, who
sighted them several times. Both were
well armed. and never failed to shoot
at the officers when an opportunity
offered They made their way north
over the mountains, arriving in the
neighborhood of Evanston, Wyo., and
took up a position in a cabin in Rich
county, Utah, little on this side of the
Wyoming state line. Stagg. Dawes
and other officers surrounded the cabin
and called on the desperadoes to sur
render, but they replied with their
guns. killing Stagg and Dawe> The
other officers retreated and Coughlin
and George escaped and doubled on
their tracks, making their way south
and arrived in the mountains east of
Salt Lake. where they entrenched
themselves and kept at bay for many
hours half the police force of Salt
Lake, and a crowd of deputy sheriffs.
They worked south and finally were
captured in Tooele county without re-
sistance.
They were tried in Ogden for the
murders, Rich county, where the kill
ing was DONE at that time being in the
same judicial district as Ogden. Both
We're found guilty and Coughlin sen
fenced 10 be shot and George to life
Imprisonment Appeals to the supreme
court availed them nothing and now
the last act in the tragedy, so far as
Coughln is concerned, is about to be
played.
IN OGDEN LAST NIGHT.
Ogden, Dec. 5.-Coughlin's attorneys
have almost given UP hope of getting
the case opened up before the supreme
court. While they expect to make
another effort before the board of
pardons they do not conceal the fact
that the predicament of their client is
serious indeed.
Judge Bart has arranged to re-
sentence Coughlin on Dec. Q. An at
torney viii be appointed for him at
Woodruff. the county seat of Rich
county, but il is generally admitted
that his duties viii be simply formal.
4 deputy sheriff from Rich county
brought him from Salt Lake to Ogden,
where ne will be kept in the county
isil till tomorrow morning They so
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