The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12
Reen WOrk caught Desperate
DETECTIVE MADE UP HOBO AND LANDED HIS MAN


have fun with him. Although he
seemed barely able to stand up, they
danced him with bullets planted with
in an inch or SO Of his toes, and he
went down the line of the booze plants
and hOnkatOnks letting them all go as
far as they liked with him. He was
staked to rum wherever he went for
his jigging.
Seated in the back room of the very
last saloon ON the Hne-the saloon
shack was on the edge of tie rocky
desert-Loudon saw Crandall, He rec
OgniZed him instantly from pictures
and photographs of the desperate that
had been given TO him before he
started out on his peTilOus mission.
Crandau, LOUdOn could see. was keep
ing under cover in that GROCERY.
Two nights afteTWard, and at
later hour, LOudOn, again putting on
tie bunned-up antics, once more went
down the line Of the grOggeries, let
ting the rough gang have fun with
him. They danced him some more
with bullets, soused him i'm a horse
trough, made q pass hall of him, and
booted him around generally.
CLOSE to midnight LOudOn pulled up
at the gin mill where Crandau was Iy~
ing low. He reeled into the plant and
found nobody there but the barkeep
and Crandau. who was yaWniug in the
back room and playing solitaire. A
big stud poker game was in progress
further back on the line, and all hands
were watching it, which accounted for
the deserted look of the booze WiCkeup
where Crandau was hanging out.
'LOudOn attempted 10 touch the bar
keep for a drink, and the barkeep
roughly threw him cut. The imitation
bum reeled away for a distance, and
then slid back i'm the darkness, con-
IEH ha f71 salTr all
that edged on the desert.
Presently the barkeep and CrandaI
emerged together from the saloon. The
barkesp had turned the lights out and
locked the door after him as he came
out. He stood in the starlight, talking
with the desperate for a moment, and
then, giving a 'Slong,' and saying that
he was going to take a IoOk-in at the
stud game, went down the street.
"Crandal leaned against the front
of the GROCERY, WhistIing plaintively,
down the line. He had a room above
the saloon, and it had been necessary
for him To come out of the saloon 70
reach his room by going up a stairway
on the outside of the shack.
"CTaudaIl ceased his whistling, gave
final stretch, and passed around the
saloon shack to gain the outside stair
way LO MS ROOM LOUUeE was at the
foot of the stairway.
The stars are big down that way,
and throw a lot of light Crandau was
within a stride of the stairway when
he saw the CLEAN of LoudOn's two gun
barrels.
Put 'em up, Jim-and quick" said
L0udOu quietly.
''Crandall put his hands up with the
instant instinct of a man whose life
had been a warfare from boyhood.
Don't bother talking, Jim,' said
LoudOn. just walk ou ahead of me-
Yonder, 20 the water tank. Keep your
hands up, and don't make any moves,
or I'll sure have 20 pipe you out, jim
Walk along
"CraudaU wheeled without a word
and started over the bOWlder strewu
desert for the railroad water tank, half
a mile below MOjaye. There was
train due to stop there in half an EOur
Ia train for san Francisco LOud0n
knew that all of the up-bOuud trains
stopped at the tank TO replenish the
b0irar
"Crandall trudged along, and Loudon
kept just FIVE feet behind him, both
Eu-ls pointed tor agdrill into the back of
the desperadO's head. Crandau, with
out stopping mis- trudge. and with his
. hands stlll up, Only-spoke once on his
way across the rough plain to the wa
ter tank.
" You're the bum. hevg' he said to
LOudOu
" That's who Jim rpuIiad Toudou
sententiousiy Keep a-mOVing
THE train, for am unusual thing,
happened TO be on time to the minute,
and when &c pulled mp Loudou had his
stuck-up man at q point about sixty
feet below the tank, where he reck-
oned the smoking car right behind the
locomotive tender, ought TO be. His
calculation was exact. The smoker
was there, and TIE conductor and
brakeman were on the platform.
" Climb up, Jim said Loudon. and
the desperadO. who knew that he had
no chance iu life TO make any kind of
successful play witha two-guuned man
only five feet in his rear. clutched the
handraH 0f the smoking ear platform
and swung himself on board the train.