The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-29

of them are acquainted with the noun
tain Businesses of western Colorado.
( They will pick up the trail at Turner's
and follow it across Colorado. south
into New Mexico. or north into Wyo-
ming.
Sheriff Howells' Posse.
The second posse, which left at 4
/ O'Clock, contained the nine men which
Sheriff Howells brought down from
Salt Lake, Sheriff Preece of Uintah
county, Sheriff Alfred of Carbon, Joe
Harris of Westwater and Bill Littlely
of Moab. 1t had several pack horses,
: loaded down with provisions, blankets
and cooking utensils It is one of the
/ best equipped posses that has ever gone
after bad men in Utah, and
/ the man hunters said they
were QUILTED for several weeks
] This crowd will go straight to the
/ Webster City Cattle company's ranch
/ on Hill creek, eight miles beyond the
scene of the killing. From there it will
go on TO Turner's place and likely catch
| up with the first party, which went out
/ under Day and Westwood.
There are some fine shots in this
I posse as the practice work this morn
/ ing showed Sc NraI Of the men shot
at a white rock yards away against
the hill. Though il s not much larger
than mans hand several of the shoot
ers hit the mark. Deputy Sheriff Cold
man of Murray seemed to be able to
strike it at almost every shot.
Pacific Express Loss.
The murder of Tyler and Jenkins has
r4rrEf r. I'll.
Pacific train robbery which have been
I hidden by both the railroad company
and the Pacific Express company. I
have learned on the best authority that
the Pacific Express company in that
| holdup lost $4,000. including about
| 5000 Of unsigned bank notes. At the
time CurTie was killed a Pinkerton
man, Murray, who had been working
on the case, came here tC identify the
outlaw. He said at that time that the
express company had lost $4,000 and
that Currie was the treasurer of the
robbers, with some of the money in his
I possession, awaiting this spring. when
ii was to have been divided. There is
no question that Murray made these
statements and as he was in a position
to know the amount lost it is presumed
! that hewas telling the truth. Working
on these facts the most plausible theory
is that the men who murdered Tyler
and Jenkins were not cattle rustlerS by
profession. They had come in here to
meet Currie and have a division of the
spoils.
At the time of Currie's death his
father came here from ChadrOn, Neb,
and he showed DOC" King, one of the
managers OF the Webster City Cattle
company, letters from the son, in which
it was told that he intended to remain
/ here during the winter. Currie has told
others he was going out in the spring
While he was in the Book cliffs he was
associated with Tom Dilley, Joe Rose
and another rustler. He worked with
them because he wanted to hide for
the winter. All this time he had a cache
of large share of the Pacific Express
booty which was to be divided in the
spring. Soon after he was killed. that
is on April p, three men appeared at
the Webster City Cattle comDany's
ranch and asked about Currie They
talked TO one of Mr.. Fullerton's en-
plOyes quite freely about him and the
hOldups with which they had been as
ISOLATED They said they We're to have
met him in the mountains ana when in
/ formed that he was dead they said fur
Their that there was a cache of Sc, 900 in
the mountains which they wanted to
find.
Returned From Arizona
Since then they have not been seen.
But last Wednesday three men, two
of dark and one of sandy complexion,
passed through Moab from Arizona.
One Of the dark men was tall and the
other was of medium height Eacn
was about 80 years of age. The other
man put down as Cassidy. was of good
build, about 40 years of age. clean
shaven and with sandy hair.
The description fits Butch" Cassidy
and the two jones brothers, or Cassidy
and Harvey Cusrie. The same
description fits the men seen at the
cattle company ranch on April %, and
that given by Oscar Turner of the men
who passed his ranch Saturday even
ing. Not only that. but Deputy Sheriff
Day and Merit Wade. who saw Tyler
and Jenkins killed, give the same de-
scriptiOn.
It is believed the three men who
sought Currie's cache were the same
and that becoming frightened at the
man-hunt then on fed south. Gaining
courage lately they came north again
to ird the cache. They were met by
Tyler and his posse just before OF. af-
ter they found the money. From the
direction in which they were going cat
tlemen are inclined to think they had
recovered the booty.
May Have Been Five.
There are indications that there were
five outlaws in the gang that killed the
two men in Hill creek canyon
There is a rumOr here that two men
went back MP Hill creek canycA after
the shooting and came out over the
divide into the Green river valley. thir-
ty-tive miles north of here. However.
the several sheriffs here did not think
the clue strong enough to follow.
Inquest Held.
An inquest on the bodies of Tyler and
jenkins was held here this morning,
and the jury returned a verdict that
they came to their death at the hands
OF unknown parties while in pursuit of
outlaws The inquest was presided
over by Justice Hinckley, and T. 3.
Hammond, William SomerviIle and L.
;. Taylor of Moab were the Jurors.
County Attorney J. 3. Corbin of Grand
county examined the witnesses and
nothing new was brought out. for the
proceeding was purely formal.
Robert Fullerton, who, with Doe
King, brought in the bodies; Sheriff
Preece, who saw them in Hill creek
and who cieansed the - here, were ex-
amined.
After the remains Of the two men
were brought in last night Undertaken
BannisCer of Grand Junction. who had
come with collins, embaimed them. The
bodies were horribly mUtGated nv mis-