Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-23
Details Concerning the Killing Of
Geo, Currie, the Outlaw
DIED RATHER THAN GIVE UP
Was Found In an Almost starving
Condition, Along tie Green River
End Of a desperate Career

The facts concerning the capture OK
George Curry. the desperate outlaw
have come TO light. and reveals another
sad ending Of a misspent me-. Mr.
Fullerton Of Grand county had been
loosing some Of his cattle, and the
brands were being changed on bis stock
lie therefore procured the services Of
sheriGs Preece and tyler OF Uintah
and Grand counties respectively who.
together with their posses, set out TO
hunt down the thieves. The officers
went up the Green river valley some
distance when they came upon q de-
serted camp. which they suspected to
be that uf the cattle rustlcrs. Ihey
fen upon a trail. which IN reality was
one made by Curry's horses which nad
wandered from his camp a long as
lance. When the party set out on tues
day morning IL divided. halt going up
the north side and half up the suulh
side OF the river About nine o'clock the
officers on the south side deserted the
form " CLrrie moving among the rock,
and they Immediately commanded him
90 halt and throw up his arms. He re-
piled that he would never surrender,
and thereupOn the officers began hrlng
at him. he jumped from rock TO rock
in order 10 shield himself from the bull
lets. and fired one shot IN re-
turn. then ceased. The party
on the opposite side OF the river drew
up 90 the rear OF the oltlaw and fired
al him several times. II was thought
at first that Currle was feigning death,
but they gradually drew nearer until
they could see that he was indeed dead,
having been killed some time previous
by a 1880 Winchester.
Currie must have been on The verge
OF starvation when be was killed, as
It IS believed that he had gone without
food for several days He had with him
only roll OF blankets, and among them
was a quilt that had probably been
made for him by woman The quit
was decorated with amateur paintings.
His gun was IN the same position as
when he used 1t last. and was The latest
improved Winchester.
The officers think that Currie had
two companions. who We're not so well
known as he. and who for that reason
went out IN search OF food But after
getting away heard that the Green
River valley was being secured by oih-
GERS did no, dare return TO their pal
with provisions and Currie was forced
from his hiding place by hunger
AT the time he was captured he was
in search OF HIS horses which had wan-
dered a long way from his camp. Il
Is now known that the three men have
| been hiding IN the Green River valley
since December
The putting away OF Currle rlds the
country not only OF "a cattle rustler,
| but of one OF the b0laest train robbers
! that ever infested this resl0n.
He first spraug into not0riety during
| the cattle invasion I'm northern Wyo-
ming IN 1892. Ray ana Chapman, two
notorious cattle thieves az that time
Were the ones suspected and hunted for
by the officers Those men were friends
Of Currie's and De was afraid that he
also was wanted 80 he ran away. Geo.
b. Bissell, his employer, tried 20 assure
him that he was not wanted. that he
was safe. but he would not stay, and
since that time he has led the life Of
desperate.
The next time he was heard Of was
ln Johnson county. Wyoming whore he
shot q deputy sheriff. Tie figured prom
inenuy In the attempted bank robbery
at Belle Fouchc, South Dakota, In June.
1887 when he and several others We're
captured
The men were taken 20 deadwood
and imprisoned, but on September ]
of that year they broke jail he was
next heard Of in 1898 near Huntington.
Utah. where he was hunted by Deputy
Sherns He then passed out Of public
notice. until the Union Pacific train rob-
berry 0f last year hen 10 became known
among the officers that his was the eyil
genius that inspired that eva business.
lie has been lying low since that time.
Tie went 20 the Green river country.
whore he hid his Identity and was em-
ployed boy different cattle men lie was
known 20 be a dfd shot. and a Jolly
good fellow among his cOnuaulOng