The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-15
LYNCH TELLS THE STORY OF
THE HOLDING UP OF THE
GAMBLING HOUSE.
CFrom The Salt Lake Herald


James Lynch, the bandit and slayer
of George Prouse, talked yesterday
about his participation in the hold-ur
of the Sheep Ranch gambling house
Tuesday morning. He admitted that
he fired one shot at the plucky faro
dealer, and the utter abandon and in
difference with which the murderer
told his story brands him as a most
| vicious criminal of the lowest order
In a close cell at the county Jail
Lynch spent the day yesterday suffer-
ing only as a slave to opium, deprived
| Of the drng, can realize. That he is a
,hend' was made known yesterday,
and this fact accounts for the frantic
state into which he was thrown Tues
day night. at the very moment his vic
tim was breathing his last at St
Marks hospital.
Alter morphine had been admins
tered TO him by an attending physician,
Lynch slept until yesterday morning,
and during the day was quiet but eX-
tremely nervous. Early in the day
Jailer Thomas told him of the death
Of Colonel Prouse
He showed signs of alertness while
listening to the words which practical
~ accused him of murder but when
the Jailer made further efforts TO talk
with the man and extract some infor
nation relating to the much discussed
tragedy, he affected to be little con-
cerned and replied to numerous ques-
tons in monosyllables.
When a reporter for The Herald en-
tered the narrow confines Of his tenn
porary home in the county Jail last |
night and accosted Lynch with a query
as to how he was feeling. the wounded |
man manifested momentaTy interest |
IN the events OF which he is at present |
the central figure, by replying:
oh. I'm little bad in the top What
are they saying"
We'll, it looks pretty bad for you.
You know, of course, that the man you
1red at is dead?" was the reply.
oh yes; I heard the talk in the cor
ridor this morning. l guess I'm up
against it,
He then followed. aided by occasion
al suggestions, with a rambling state
nent of his wanderings and the part
he played in the tragedy, but abso-
utely refused to say anything which
night give a clue to his confederates
am between 20 and q years old
nd was born in Albany New York
tate. he said. Il am stone cutter
y trade. | left home eight years ago.
rom Albany ! went to Chicago and
iorked there at whatever I could find |
o do for short time and then came |
est where | have knocked about ever
ince. {
Sometimes l worked in mines and {
1ree weeks ago l quit a job in
meter at Northport, 3. c., and headed
or Denver. At Brigham. the other {
de of Ogden, / met the two men who !
n he iplN oh, /
lie here. We all 'hoboed it out of that S
,Wn and got here Sunday morning. t
Ie spent the day along Second South
rect, drinking in some of the saloons. a
al rushing the can in the alley back s
Commercial street. q
That night l left my partners and L
ept in box car in the Rio Grande o
-estern freight yards. The following c
orning as / was walking up town | o
ct them again on Second South
rect" n
oh, I don't know their names -
lied one 'Mizzouri' Joe, and the other Z
I'M. We drank more and l guess I
st my head. We knocked about town V
Monday night and Tuesday morn
3 had gun showed into my haISS III
d we went up into the gambling
ON, and you know the rest a'
How many shots did you FREQ he al
IS asked al
Only one, he replied. And then re
got mine. and l guess I'll get worse" w
All efforts to elicit further informa- Os
II about his accomplices were I'M Rc
alling He expressed himself as be- @
not entirely satisfied at the man La
: in which they left him to fight the Is;
tile out alone, but still seemed VIII Pa
to take what he thought was due MI
4, without aiding the police in ap- 81
blending the others. Bi
lie delivered his story in a non III
liant sort of manner exhibiting but lie
e any show of feeling, and that An
en- questioned about his parents. Pr
My father has been dead ten wears He
stated Oh
My mother? oh, she was alive the Sp
time heard of her. but she'll Sp
er hear of this, / hope" and the Ia
'oner rolled over toward the wall Go
buried his face beneath his arm. Eu
er which he refused to talk further. Ma
hief Of Police Hilton saws small Sill
nifty of opium was taken from "a
lch when he was searched at the In
ion and believes that the man is a Fa
pc tiend." His inability to secure Mt
drug is in the CHIEFS opinion the Spl
'on for his being thrown into the Ep
ent state in which Night Jailer Ma
1bransen found him on Tuesday Ste
ling. He has taken no nourish- Gu
It, other than cup of coffee. since Sal
confinement and seems utterly in f1iC
rent to his fate. Els
Bel