, 1897-03-26
AN ALLEGED CRIME.
SWEETWATER COUNTY SENDS A
REQUISITION AFTER c. r.
KELSEY.
He Suddenly Returns and Proceeds to
Rock Springs to Face the Music
Illegal Sale of School Bonds is
Charged Against Him-His Attor-
ney Interviewed.

Two or three days ago Governor Rich
ards issued a requisition on the Cover
nor OF Nebraska for C. r. Kelsey, who
is wanted by Sweetwater county to eX-
plain an alleged shady" transaction in
connection with the sale OF school bonds
OF thai county. An officer armed with
the requisilion left Immediately for
Nebraska. but Mr.. Kelsey. who had in
tuitvely learned OF the issuance OF the
requ!sitiOn papers. left Immediately for
Cheyenne and passed the officer some
where IN the road, arriving here yester-
day morning and it is understood will
leave today for Rock Springs.
The Tribune learned last evening that
Mr.. Kelsey. who formerly occupied an
official position in n Of the Rock
Springs coal mines, but who has recent
ly changed his residence to Hershey,
Neb.. where he has engaged in business.
has employed the firm OF Van Orsdel &
Burdick to take charge Of his case.
A reporter questioned Mr.. Burdick
last night regarding the matter and was
told that Mr.. Kelsey was going back to
Rock Springs to face the charges. 1t has
been alleged that Mr.. Kelsey visited
South America recently for no other pur-
pose than to escape the anticipated on
sequences of the alleged bond deal. This
Mr.. Burdick states is entirely erroneous
and that Mr.. Kelsey was merely looking
up a new location.
The Sweetwater county officer has
not YET beer heard from. but will prob
ably arrive in Cheyenne tomorrow or
next day from Hastings. Neb.
AT the depot this morning in CONVEX
sation with Il gentleman who knows
Mr.. Kelsey, a Tribune reporter learned
that Mr.. Kelsey was at one time general
manager of the Hopkins mines near
Rock Springs. On account of some
shady" transaction he was discharged.
He remained in his house, however, and
it was necessary to serve election pa
pers upon him to gel him cut. He was
reputed to be very wealthy, and his wife
spent the summer abroad. Kelsey also
took an active part in politics and was
4 delegate from Rock Springs 10 the
STATE convention held in Cheyenne last
summer.-Cheyenne Tribune.
RISKED LIFE TO SAVE WORD.
You need not send an officer for me
| will come when l am wanted"
Vincent Sutton, postmaster at Ore
town, Tillamook county. was wanted
Tor an embezzlement by the United
, States authorities. A plain tale, truly
and one which smacks OF the vulgar
commonplace, but mark the difference.
This Sutton is a man of simple mind
and to him it seemed no harm would be
l done # he eked out the pittance OF his
Office as postmaster by adding the sums
/ paid in for purchase of money orders, q
, matter OF some 1855 when all was count
, ed. He would make it good in his own
time. and in truth he thought it nc
wrong. But the United States does moi
do business that way, and in due time
there came an indictment found by the
Oregon grand jury. Sutton heard. He
realized that he had done wrong. He
was ready to meet his punishment, he
was ready to meet it at the peril of his
life. Nothing prevented if he chose to
leave the state. No one could find him
in this bitter weather did he prefer tc
hide in The Businesses of his own track
less mountains, but it came home to
him what he had not realized when he
took the money, that he had done wrong
and he alone must bear the burden.
Now, this was not a matter OF walk.
the police or the marshal. 1t was no
even a matter of boarding a comfortable
; railroad coach to De hauled into Port.
3 land. Oretown Us a lonely camp buried
t deep in the Oregon wilds, a round AZ
miles and more from a railroad station
with raging rivers to be crossed be,
) tween and no road on which u horst
may travel in this teeming winter sea.
) IoSA, "hSA INC "hoiC SOuul sue IL
soaked and sodden like a FULL sponge
deep with treacherous u%nfathomed seal
of holding mud. Forty-three miles or
foot. swimming the swirling. wild, un
bridled rivers, staggering along through
clinging mud, unable to lie down ant
sleep in his drenched clothes lest he per
ished OF the cold, deprived Of fire ant
light because the matches he carried
were soaked, snatching a hungry bite BY
the way at The little Of food he had In
his pockets, all sodden and smeared witt
mud-this was the task that Vincen,
Sutton set himself because justice mus
be done and he must bear his part
though his life be forfeited in the doing
So 1t came that the simple-mindei
man Of primitive mould sas down and
wrote a letter to Marshal Grady in Port.
land that he would come himself to thu
nearest station on the railroad, SherI-