The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-09
VERNAL JUBILATEs.
Celebrated the Defeat of the Outlaws
Further Details.

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Vernal, Utah, March S.-The VernaI
posse returned last night from the
Browns park country, and bring the
report of the capture of the outlaws
there last Friday. Bennett, the man
captured on the day of the Hoy killing,
was lynehed by Browns park ranch
men before the arrival of the Vernal
men. He was hung from a gate frame
at the Bassett ranch, near the head of
the LAHORE canyon
The three outlaws captured are john
son, the slayer of Strang, Dave Liant
and a mulattO who escaped from the
pen with Liant. He gives the name Of
Murray now, but says he went to the
rem under the name of Tracy. They
were captured within six miles of Pow
der Springs, and We're on foot. and
making for the Springs. where they
could have secured horses and made
good their escape.
The shooting of Hoy occurred on
Tuesday, the 1st of March, at o'clock,
and the attacking party returned and
awaited assistance According to the
outlaws story, they left the place
where Hoy was killed the same even
ing, after recovering. the gun that Hoy
carried. They walked on the top of the
sagebrush and stepped upon rocks to
prevent tracking. The capture was
made upon Friday following the kill
ing. The scene of the capture is 40
miles from where the killing occurred
Johnson and Liant were almost bare
footed. their shoes having been worn
through by the sharp rocks and Arusted
snow Their feet were sore and bleed
ing. They were almost dead from hum
ger and fatigue, and made very little
resistance, ard they were too weak to
oh a
them before they surrendered. The only
food they had the entire time was
flesh Of a colt, found dead along the
route, or killed by the outlaws them
selves.
johnson accuses Liant and Murray Of
killing Hoy, and in turn they accuse
Johnson. Hoy was within a few feet
of the hiding place when shot. His
body lay where it fell for two days and
nights before being removed. 1t was
conveyed to Rock Springs, where Mrs
Hoy had come from the east.
Johnson was taken in the direction
of Rock Springs by the Wyoming Off
GERS and Liant and Murray to Colorado
by officers from that state. The Yer
nal men state that it is very doubtful
if the outlaws are taken to their desti-
nations alive. as the feeling is intense
against them. 1t is feared that they
will be lynched.
The capture was made by Deputy
Sheriff Swanson of Rock Springs and
Deputy Sheriff Farnham of ROutt
county, assisted by Browns Park men
named Mcknight, Joe Davenport and
Isham Dart, colored-
There was great rejoicing in Vernal
last night. A huge bonfire was built
on Main street and an effigy of John
son burned. With Matt Warner in the
pen: with his pal at Salt Lake and
some of the gang imprisoned and sew
eral at different places in Wyoming
and Colorado; one buried at Bassett's
ranch and three more in the hands of
the officers, it looks as though the day
of Judgment was at hand
The Vernal boys did good work and
were hot on the trail when the fugi-
tives were captured, and We're only
three miles away. There may be some
complications over the distribution of
the rewards.