Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-07
TRAGIC DEATH OF
ATTORNEY WALSH
The One Absorbing Theme in YER
nal at Present.
OUTLAW CHASE FORGOTTEN
InIIis Aimless wandcrings TIE covered
Enough Distance 20 Hrach Water
In Almost Any Direction
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
yrnsl Uinuh Co.. June 1.-THE one
absorbing theme In vernal az present Beg
the awful and tragic death Of Attorney
D.. =. Walsh. The chase after the out
laws is forgotten temporarily and AN
things else OF public interest are lost
sight Of.
No tongue could ever tell the agony
of that terrible death. a wanderer for
days over a trackllss desert waste with
out food or water wandering aimlessly
about through the burning sands He
covered enough distance 10 reach water
in almost any direction
The searchers from here went directly
TO the point where the tracks OF the
mule and cart had been seen crossing
the road. They kept On this tran ana
found where he had camped for two
nights and had then abandoned the
mule and cart, OF had himself been LETT
by the mule. and commenced his fear
ful walk about the "Deadman Stat
A gruesome name now d0ubly empha-
sized I'm the death Of Mr., Walsh. To
man familiar with life IN this western
country there would have been hum
bred ways 20 escape his awful tate. one
way would have been 20 retrace his
steps when he found he was lost until
he came 60 the road and then Kept To
that and no matter I'm which direction
he followed IL would have reached wa
ter within a distance of thirty miles
or less. Another way and the very best
for him would have been 70 get onto
the mules back and turn II loose and
a would have soon taken him TO water,
Had he taken some conspicuous nouns
| tain for a guide and kept on toward IL
he could have reached water IN h9lt
the distance he Travelled even after ne
left the mule and cart The fact that
| he did not avail himself Of me OF these
means Of escape can only be accounted
| for by assuming that he became con
| fused and was incapable OF exercising
even ordinary Judgment
The poor fellow az one time In his
wanderings was within a mile OF White
/ river which was within plain view.
| That he did not see and reach u is
| evidence that he was @, her delirlous
/ or else that ID was IN the night and be
| could not see AT another time he was
within a mile or so Of Cons ranch, his
| original destination. and then wandered
| of In another direction, and when found
| hy Mr.. r. NJ. Pope and Eli Lee was
| about six miles away lying dead be-
| tween two rocks.
In his awful agony he had clawed at
| his face with his fingers until one eye
/ was gouged from It's socket The men
/ being horseback could not move the
body. but FASTENED back to Green river
/ for a team.
Mr.. Walsh left here Saturday, May
/ 25th for COTS ranch, on White river,
as already stated The searching party
found where he camped beyond the
/ Green river ferry Saturday night then
! stin further out on the desert, where
he had become lost on Sunday night
then following his aimless trail after he
| left his animal. on Monday and Tues
day nights After that until his'death.
| which must have occurred probably
| Thursday. he kept up q continuous and
| aimless wandering He was therefore
dead before II was known here that ne
had not reached his destination, Con S.