The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12
Chicago Inter-Ocean)


( "a not rounded up in canyons or
swamps by nhemming posses.
/ An irrigation engineer from Arizona
says:
CAS- many of them have been got by
1 strategy as by the herding process.
The pattest job of that kind that I
know anything about happened when
Mort Loudon, keeper at the san
/ Quentin prison. in California, CoraIed
/ Jim CrandaIl d prospector, who es-
( capped from the Folsom .penitenuary. in
/ the same state, in 1891. after binding
one keeper and killing another Loud
ON played a lone hand at that job,
turning a trick that fifty men with
guns could probably never have got
away with.
"L0udOu was a young fellow of 80,
quiet to the point or taciturnlty. He
/ had no record as q bad-man hunter,
and he was the last man who would
ever have been sent out from San
Quentin to undertake a job requiring
nerve. strategy and quick shooting in
pinch.
while LOudOn was on a visit to the
keepers at Folsom the tip reached the
.
down at Mojave. in Kern county, Cali
f0rnia. surrounded by friends, and
waiting for a chance to make a break
/ down the line for the santa Anita
mountains. Loudou begged for and
+ got a chance TO bring him i'm.
Three mornings later when the San
. Ia E'e overland from san Francisco
pulled alongside the AIOjave station
shack, the conductor and brakeman
jumped off the train, ran forward to
the blind baggage. and, with a great
show Of rage, grabbed and threw of
a hobo who was riding on the blind
baggage platform. The bum, who was
. L0udon. seemed to be very drunk, and
he made no resistance.
The two dozen and odd Ioungers
around the Moiaye station looked on
az the ditching of the hobo with
/ amused interest. They were all friends
/ of Crandsll, and they were at the sta
I ton to inspect the men who might
attempt to leave the train. Mojave
q wasn't a place much visited by straug-
I ers, but CTandalls friends were there
to see 20 it that nobody should stop
+ off there until they were enabled to
hike Crandau down the line to the
F Santa Anita mountains But they
didn't mind the bum.
when the train pulled out. the sta
ton crowd dispersed, and LoudOn, in
his buns makeup, staggered around
to the shady side of the station to
sleep of ON the boards his cieverly
simulated drunk. He was in TIE same
settlement with Crandall, anyway, as
he was able to judge from a glance
at the actions of the crowd of men az
the station, and he had the satisfac-
ton of knowing that he'd never have
been allowed to- drop of at Noiave
had he not framed up that blind bag
gage riding hobo dodge.
"LoudOu was stIll pretending 20 snOre
drunkenIy, stretched out close 90 the
shaded wall of the station, when some
body came alOuS and passed him
few nifty kicks. To was the manager
of the Harvey eating house who did
the kicking.
Well you're ditehed plumb. Jack
said the eating house manager when
LOudOn sat up and rubbed his eyes,
d and there amt q chance in the world
for YOU TO nudge out of here without
their coin To carry you to BarstOW or
20 Los Angeles, anyhow. You got TO
hustle your way out. Want a sweep
ing job for S. a week and your booze
and eatsy
"Loudon didn't grab at the offer with
+ enough eagerness TO give himself away
T I'm his h0b0's capacity, but lie accepted
E the JOB after O. moments consideration
I The offer was, I'm fact. a g0dsend for
I him. for while lying i'm the shadow Of
+ the wall he had been trying TO figure
/ how he was going To hang around tie
F camp long enough To accomplish his
Z purpose. OF az least make a try at aC-
1 complishiug it, without generating sus-
/ picion. The sweep-up's job at the eat
/ ing house would let him out Is to
/ that.
~Loudon chored around tie Harvey
eating house for three DAVIS before no
got q view of Crandal. On the third
/ night Of his employment he pretended
20 be very drunk at the wind-up of
I his day 7W0rk and staggered over from
I the eating house 30 the main and only
/ street Of Acjave, made up mostly OF
/ grOggeries.
"Loudon simulated a funny jag. and
the gang I'M the sinmlls proceeded TO