The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-16

IN lle meantime.
1t was thought that Caverly had hit
one of the two, as he dropped his -un.
but afterward ii was found he mad
MT tRe stock of the rifle with the bullet
Help soon came and the cabin was STR
rounded and riddled with bullets, ere the
party found the outlaws had escaped. The
bodies OF Stagg and Dawes had been
robbed of the guns and ammunition ere
the pair left.
From that time on the chase was most
exciting. On the following day IL was
learned that the pair were headed to-
wards this city, where George had friends
who ne thought, and as it proved, would
help him.
The officers Were in pursuit in all direc-
tons and telegraph wires and telephones
were kept busy. Sheriff Hardy went to
came back when he learned the men were
coming in this direction.
ENTER SALT LAKE CITY.
On the might of July 81. word was
brought 10 the city that the men had
been seen in Ogden and later they had
passed, through Kaysyiile. AT first this
was treated as joke. but the sheriff S
Office and the police departments were on
the alert. The patrol wagon was sent out
toward Pennington and passed the two
they were in and left the main road and
cut across the fields and hills toward City
Creek canyon, place with which George
was perfectly familiar. having herded
On the next day Officers Shannon and
O. j. Pratt encountered the men in City
Creek canyon. They showed fight and
fired at the policemen although they got
a Roland for Oliver at the hands of the
city's men who killed one of the horses.
Sergeant Ford. who was a great military
genius, headed force of police armed
With springfield rifles and fired 600 rounds
at all the rocks in the canyon which
would hide a man. while the pair were
escaping across the hills and down to
ward Georges home, by way of the reser-
walton.
THE SEARCH IN CITY CREEK
For two days the men were hid while
the officers were looking for them. Sheriff
Hardy did not know ii at the time, bit
he walked through a building in which
they were concealed. with a relative of
George, who was trying to screen that
young man. Had their whereabouts been
discovered there would have been an
other fight.
Coughlin said afterwards that at Mill
Creek canyon he thought he would have
to shoot Deputy Sheriff Irwin, and THAI
if he had not gone the other way he
would have had a man to his credit in
addition to the two killed near Wasatch.
Detective Franks, with his bloodhounds,
Re showed the pun away from him with
his gun, while it was smelling around
him.
M'KELLER ROUNDS THEM UP.
Through the cennivance of friends the
men were mounted on horses, given some
feed and Started west or the night of
August 3. They passed h. T. ranch at
the point % tbs lake on the morning
OF the 4th. There Is where they made a
mistake They took the wrong route
when they tackled the Grantsville gang.
They stopped al the Third Term inn
where the men suspected their identity,
and when they awoke the next morning
the Rydalch family had them surrounded.
Sheriff McKeller was sent for and came
over with d posse.
COUGHLIN SURRENDERS.
CoughIin was the first 20 surrender He
rave himself up 10 John Rydalch and
then urged George to come out of the
brl1ss as there was no use holding out
longer. They were surrounded and might
as well cave in.
Sheriff Hardy went cut as soon as the
news reached here and brought the two
men here to jail An immense crowd
met them at the depot and TO the shame
of the city, there were some who wanted
10 have. them released Confined in jail
George proved himself TO be the respect
sble-Qne of the pair. Coughlin was vie,
prcfafie and irreverent in all his CONVEX
sations He jibed at policemen, at re-
porters and every one and made a gen
eral nuisance of himself. George, on the
contrary. seemed to realize the predica-
merit he was in and was very subdued.
The hearing was had before United
states commissioner MOTIFS SOfnIleI OH
August Z, and resulted in both men being
held for trial on the charge of murder in
The first degree.
THE TRIAL AT OGDEN.
Coughlin was tried in Ogden before
Judge Bartch. He was defended by At
tcrney O'Brien, who made an earnest eff
fort for him, as have Messrs. Johnson and
Hayes who have fought his case through
tcstke court of last resort. the supreme
court of the United States.