The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-21
BUTCH CASSIDAY
VISITS STAIELINE
Noted Bandit Gang Bucks the
Tiger.
TRAGEDY WAS FEARED
EXPECTED FEANCIS WOULD
KILL CASsIDAY.
TRAGEDY WAS FEARED


Butch" Cassiday, on whose head is
price Of $500. has of late. IN company
With three Of his merry men, been
'hucking the tiger" and taking social
drinks with the miners of Stateiine, of
Fay New, and other camps in the
vicinity. The miners asked no questions
OF the trio. and so innocent did they
appear that when Attorney L 3.
Wight, formerly Of Salt Lake, met two
rustic looking chaps last Saturday at
Deer Lodge. New. he tried to self them
some household furniture. He thought
they We're prospective settlers who
would be glad to purchase his outfit.
As the outlaws were not thinking of
taking UP a permanent residence in
that vicinity. they politely refused the
OTfer- II was not until he reached Fay,
New, that he found out who the gen
tlemanly trio were. There he learned
that the bandits had just spent two
nights in the town winning heavily AT
the gambling houses, slowing away
quantities OF red liquor. and throwing
the town into a fever Of excitement for
fear of a few shOotings.
The fear of trouble was Occasioned
by the presence in the town of Bob
Francis, ian outlaw hunter, who has
sworn to HILL al sight Lew McCarty.
Butch" on the visit to the camp. The
outlaw and the outlaw hunter did not
meet, however. and the bandits went
TO Stateline where it is said they tar
ried another night and departed for
quarters unknown.
Attorney Wight's Story.
The story of the meeting with the
|. desperadOes md their trip through the
places menticned above was told last
night by Mr. Wight, who arrived IN the
stopping at the home of has brother
city yesterday from Stateline and is
ln-istw, Il. G. ktdder at Capitol ave-
nue..
TT was last Saturday while on nv
way from Stateline to Fay" said Mr.
Wight, that l met the desperadoes. /
rode up 20 the watering trough at Deer
Lodge and was watering my horse
when a blackboard containing two
roughly dressed men. who looked to be
farmers or home seekers, rolled uD To
the trough, followed by "A third man
on horseback The men had fine horses
and saddles were carried in the rig but
from the travelling paraphernalia they
had / thought they were prospectors
searching tor some place to stop. As
was preparing to leave that country
thought it might be chance to get
ria OF my household goods to them. ]
inquired If they intended to stay long,
but the men didnt. seem to want Ia
say. and gave me some evasive answer
about not knowing until they found
how the work was there / thouEhI
they acted rather peculiar and an
Swered my questions rather uueerlv
but no dream or their being the most
noted outlaws in the state ever eros. =
my mind unit. hours later"
MT. Wight said he limited to the men
thdt II they were looking for a home
he would furnish them furniturs for Il
at a bargain, but the men. he said
smiled and replied that they didn't
guess they needed the furniture Just
yet.
air. Wight paid no more attention 70
the men, but continued on his way t,
Fay, where he learned Of the Dresenct
OF the men there and found that they
We're none others than the noted ban.
dlts- he learned that four of the band
headed by Butch" Cassiday and Lew
McCarty, had ridden into the towY
Thursday of last week from the south
but where they came from ne could no
learn. The identity of the other tw,
men In the gang could not be learned
by Mr.. Wight. but it was said that on,
oI them was from Cedar City.
Did Not Meet Francis.
There was no meeting between Fran
els and McCarty. The enmity between
hese two men. Mr.. Wight said hat
arisen over an attempt made severa
years ago by Francis and another maj
10 capture McCarty. According to tn
story Of the stair. Francis and hi
parU,er rode sixty miles out into tn
hills after the outlaw. but while the,
We're asleep at night the desperate an,
his band swooped down upon his pur
sueTS and captured them. He tool
their horses. and. tying the hands o
the two men behind them made then
walk the sixty miles back
After that Francis declared. accord
ing 10 the story, that he would shoe
McCarty on sight or set kileu in tn
attempt. Friends Of Francis took car
- see that the two men did not meet
4 learned afterwards" said Nh
Wight. that they spent Saturday nigh
in Stateiine and then departed. but
could not learn in which direction the
had gone. 1 wanted the men 10 get NJ
"a posse to go after the despera does
but they didn't seem 10 pay any atten
tion to the bandits in their towns an
didn't seem TO think it anything un
usual Just what the band was DOM
that far away from their usual haunt
Z ] could not learn, but it seemed to b
the opinion among the people Their
that they were on a trip to some north
ern rendezvous
Mr.. Wight said that the desperadoe
were apparently unarmed when he sax
them. and would pass in any place 70
common farmers.