The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-21
Cattle Thieves Rounded Up By
Sheriff Hardy's Men.
TWO OF THEM ARE IN JAIL
OFFICERS THINK THEY HAVE A
SURE CASE.
Arrest at Ogden of the Man Sup
posed to Have Stolen the Dia-
mOnds at saltair-He Gives the
Name of Harry Hutchinson

Sheriff Hardy's men captured yes
terday what is believed to be mem
bers of a notorious gang of cattle
thieves which has been infesting the
hills of the Wasatch for years.
Early yesterday morning, when
Charles E. Pace, a cattle owner of
Summit county, was on his way home
he met at the mouth of Emigration
canyon two men on horseback driving
a herd of twenty-five cattle toward the
Salt Lake Meat company's slaughter
yards. He at once recognized the cat
tie as being his own, but did not make
known his suspicious. He asked one
of the young men from whence the
herd came, and the reply was that they
had driven from Provo. This confirmed
any doubts that might have existed in
the owners mind as to the cattle, and
without any further notice he turned
about and returned to the city. Sheriff
Hardy was notified and he detailed
Deputy Sheriffs Gibbs and Steele on
the case.
When the deputy sheriff reached the
vicinity of the penitentiary they en-
countered the two men returning from
the slaughter yards, where they had
driven the herd. AS the officers ap-
preached the men were commanded to
throw up their hands. One of them
obeyed at once. The other reached for
his pistol, but obeyed orders after being
admonished a second time by the min
ions of the law.
The men were at once taken to the
city. They gave fictitious names, but
papers upon their persons revealed their
true identity and the officers believe
David F'roughton and VIII Bowbridge
are their right names. When forced
for an answer they reluctantly admit
ted that such was the case.
A short time after the arrest was
made Mr.. Pace sWore to complaint
charging them with grand larceny.
Both men were we'll mounted when
captured. They had pistols and bowie
knives, and were QUILTED i'm a suspi-
cious manner. When questioned about
the cattle they said they were hired by
the owner to drive them to market, but
refused to give that owners name. 1t
was learned afterwards that Trough
ton and Bowbridge had called at the
slaughter yards Wednesday night and
stated to the man in charge that they
would have a. bunch of cattle in by
evening or early the next morning. The
manager thought it was rather a sus-
picious circumstance form the manner
in which the men acted, but banished
the thought from his mind. Yesterday
morning they delivered the cattle and
made arrangements to receive their pay
from the office in this city. On the way
in they were overtaken by the officers
and arrested.
The stock all belong to the cattle
firm of Pace & Sons, in Silver Creek
canyon, Summit county. C. E. Pace,
who identified the cattle, is a member
Of the firm, owning half interest in the
stock. He states that cattle in large
numbers have been missed for years
from organized gangs. SO desperate
have the thieves become of late that
there is no more profit in the cattle
business. Each good-sized herd de-
creases by the hundreds each year. To
go after the depredator is a serious
business, as they are all desperate men,
being a branch organization OF the
famous Mccarthy gang.
Froughton, one of the men under ar
rest, who tried hard to conceal his
identity, halls from Vernal, the Mecca
of cattle thieves and home of Matt
Warner, one of the Mccarthy outfit,
and who is now in Jail awaiting trial
on a charge of murder. F'roughton is
a desperate character and though a
comparatively young man, has been in
Jail many times.
/ But the Sheriff's work viii not end
with the capture OF these two men.
Deputies Gibbs and Steele are in the
mountains looking for other members
of the outfit. Some days ago herd of
thirty-siX cattle was sold at Murray.
Now it has developed that they were
stolen from a herd in the mountains,
and if reports prove true the officers
may be able to land the majority of the
gang in the peniGentiary.