The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03
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TO the wherea bouts Of DR.. Laur that
reached me. In doing SO / made more
wild goose" flights than l ever did in
any other case.
The tenth bit of information con-
corning Laur reached me IN March,
1882. | hastily started TO Nashville. /
did not find Laur. At last, deciding 10
try long chance. ! boarded train at
Nashville for Chattanooga. thinking
Laur might possibly board the same
TAIN at some point along the route. for
l knew ne was operating patent
right scheme along that line of road.
At Columbia the tall familiar figure OF
the fugitive doomed before me. He en-
tered the train aud / followed into the
same car, a cautious distance behind,
and took seat from which / could OBJ
serve his every movement. He left the
train at Chattanooga with me a few
steps away. As he was about Ia leave
the station platform ! placed my hand
on mis- shoulder. Indignantly he turned
on me.
What does this mesn2" he asked
1ngrily.
IT means that you are under arrest
for counterfriting.
But / haven't passed any counter
felt money around here" he protested.
falling to recognize me after the lapse
OF SIX years.
Possibly not, but you did in south
en Illinois"
With this l crowded him into a car
riage handcuffed him and from that
time till he was again in jail in Spring
field ! did not take my eyes from him
/ a moment. Laur told me the story of
his Wanderings
I've been in sixteen jaiis since
saw you before" he said, YEARLY, and
( l expect it will be just as well for me
to go back without making any pro-
test"
The members of the band who had
not escaped on worthless bonds had
/ been tried and sentenced to the peni-
I Tertiary. Laur was tried on the orig
/ inal charge and sentenced to serve
seven and one-half years. After being
/ locked up the second time he again
| tried 10 get out on bail, but did not sue
/ coed.
/ in following the career Of the ring
! leader of the jefferson county counter
/ feiters to its end in the penitentiary l
| have taken the liberty of making
! chronological leap of nearly six years
/ i'm the history of John Fairchilds.
/ Like LauP and Schaffer. Fairchilds
did not appear at the term OF court in
| September, 1876. This failure made him
a fugitive from justice. Soon after
ward Sheriff Yearwood wrote me to the
/ effect that the fugitive had been seen
near his farm. / FASTENED to Mount
! Vernon. and. with the sheriff and two
| deputies repaired 10 the farm adjOin-
| ing Farchilds' where We spent the
night, making our beds in a haystaek.
| At daybreak we went to Fairchilds'
house where one of the boys met US.
AS the yOungster saw US approach
| he thrust two dirty fingers into his
mouth and gave a shrill whistle that
could have been heard half q mile. Inn
mediately jumping at the conclusion
/ that the whistle was d prearranged
signal of danger for the father and that
the latter was. III the barn. we ran TO
| the building and surrounded it. This
was the largest barn l ever saw on
| farm. Ordering the sheriff and his
men TO shoot if Fairchilds made an eff
fort TO break past them into the timber
in the rear, / entered the barn. and,
| after satisfying myself that the fug-
! tive was not below. I started up a
! ladder to the haymOw. At the entrance
TO the loft 1 called on Fairchilds to
| surrender. There was no answer or