, 1897-04-22
REMINISCENT.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE HAS AN
INTERVIEW OF EARLY DAYS
ON THE U. P.
When Larry Malloy Was Yardmaster at
Carbon and e. E. Calvin Was the
Night Operator at That Station
Some Lively Times With the Road
Agents OF Other Days.

None of the visiting Union Pacific Of
ficials who have been in Salt Lake the
past week has had a more exciting ca,
reer han Superintendent Malloy of the
Wyoming division, says he Salt Lake
Tribune. About Cheyenne. where he is
fondly denominated Larry" by rich and
poor alike. everybody has been expect
ing the Uintah train robber to be caught |
through his agency. so that when Sus-
pect True was arrested at Nevada City.
Gala. a couple OF weeks ago and all the
credit Of the sleuthing and capture CIV
en- to p~ostofiice officials, the citizens Of
| Wyoming metropolis are reported to
have Immediately denounced the whole
story as a fairy tale.
Mr.. Malloy's experience with train
robbers extends over a period of more
than 20 years. and during that time he
has at least once dutifully raised his
hands under the persuasive influences
OF a si~x-shooter. He also has learned
the sensation that comes when n is
under fire. Fortunately his form was
not so round and expansive a score OF
years ago as now. Otherwise he might
not have escaped so luckily. A Wyo-
ming man told the story after meeting
Mr.. Malloy yesterday.
WHEN NERVE WAS NEEDED.
Away back in '76," he said, it took
nerve to railroad in Wyoming. Not on
ly tramps-hobos they call them now
were to be feared, but there was con-
slant danger of robbery by bands OF
daring, desperate men who stopped short
OF no crime. The country was one vast
cattle range. and it was practically i'm
possible for a posse to catch outlaw
plainsmen who had any sort OF start.
One evening Brown. the section
foreman at Medicine Bow, was going
over the track between the Bow and
aurora. when he found the spikes OF a
rail near a bridge drawn and two wires
attached to the rail. Brown had the
same %quickness OF wit then. as now,
which is probably why he is at present
roadmaster OF the O.. r. and N. At first
he thought OF repairing the track. then
decided to hurry on to Aurora and give
the alarm. AS soon as he reached All
rora he telegraphed Ed. Dickinson at
Laramie, for Dickinson was then SUI
perintendent of he Wyoming division,
whose headquarters were not for years
asterward removed to Cheyenne. Dick
inson always believed in the most Wig
orous prosecution of train-robbers, and
a question OF catching one. In conse-
quence he had a posse ready to follow
the attempted wredkers at first blush OF
dawn. For as soon as they saw Brown
start for Aurora they knew their Jig
was up and that they might as we'll go.
You see they were hidden around a point
of the mountain where they could get a
good view of the track. If they had re-
moved a rail the engineer might have
seen it in time to stop the train. In
consequence they left it apparently in
good condition but loose 50 that they
could pull it away with the wires when
the train got too close to be stopped.
It was learned afterward that when
Brown stopped at the loosened rail n
of the robbers raised up on one knee
to shoot him. But others ~dissuaded him
and Browns life was spared.
PURSUIT ENDED IN DEATH.
The robbers got supplies at Medi-
cine Bow and struck off into the Elk
mountain country, at that time a track
less waste. The posse was unable to
find any trace of the men the first day.
On the second day its numbers were
swelled by the addition OF a number OF
men, Superintendent Malloy, then yard
master at Carbon, being among them.
General Superintendent Z. E. Calvin OF
the Short Line was at that time night
operator at Carbon. He also Joined in
the %purusit.
There was a deputy sheriff Of Car
bon county at that time named George
Widdowfield. He and an ex-conductor,
Tip Vincent, undertook to trail the men
independently c. the others. They rode
around Elk mountain and up Rattle
snake canyon, where they found the rob-
bers' camp in a ciump Of quaking asp
trees. The ashes OF the fire were still
warm. and Vincent remarked to his
comrade that they o would have the
| robbers. The robbers were concealed
within a few feet OF them at the time,
and as soon as Vincent spoke they fired,
killing Widdowfield. Vincent made a
running fight, but he, too. was shot
down. 1t was two weeks before their
bodies were found, and in the meantime
the murderers. had escaped from the
country, going to the northward.
THE FIRST ROBBER LYNCHED.
Dutch Charles was the fret o; them
caught. He was captured in the CEN
trail part OF the state and brought to
Cheyenne on the way to Rawlins for
trial. The miners at Carbon learned OF
the capture, and when the train pulled
into that town Dutch Charlie was TAX
en- from 1t and hanged to a telegraph
pole. Charlie Houston, the conductor.
and other train hands made an effort to
stand on the lynching party. but it did
MT require any bloodshed to compel
them to give up Charlie. Tip Vincent
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