, 1905-02-11
FAMOUS CHEYENNE DETECTIVE
TAKES UTAH MURDERER AFT
TER LONG CHASE By
VICTIMS FATHER.
Young Turner Killed In Echo Canon
and Slayer Managed To Make His
Escape to Cheyenne, Where He
Was O~verhauIed and Confessed
the Killing, Being Returned to
Utah for Trial and Execution.

The following incident is told in
chapters XXXIX, XL and XII of
Hands Up; or, Thirty-tive Years of
Detective Life in the Mountains and
On the Plains" written by John w.
Cook from "reminiscences by General
D.. j.. Cook, chief of the Rocky Noun
tain Detective association reprinted
here with the permission of J. ". Cook,
to whom and General D. j. Cook the
copyright runs. Chapter XXXIX be-
gins Oh page 2S3.
Mr.. T. Jeff Carr, for a long time city
marshal o Cheyenne, and for many
years past a resident of that city, has
long been one of the most vigilant as
well as one of the most successful
members Of the Rocky Mountain De-
%tective association, ever working in
perfect harmony with General Cook.
On the oath of July, 1880, Mr.. Carr
made an arrest in Cheyenne which re-
suited in the development of the facts
in an ~unprovoked and heartless muir.
der, which had previously occurred in
Utah. The man arrested was one
Fred Welcome, a young man, but, not
withstanding his age, thoroughly hard
ened in crime. He had come to Chey-
enne about the 18th Or 10th of July OF
the year above mentioned, and haG
been residing in hat city. leading a
pretty gay life, for a week, when Mr..
Carr received a telegram describing
the man II Offering a large reward
for his capture on the charge Of muir
dering j. F. Turner. neal Park City,
Utah, early iE :he same month. On a
train which came in from the west on
the day of the arrest was J. w. Turner,
father of the dead man and sheriff of
Utah county, Utah. and William Allison,
sheriff of Summit county, Utah, who
were tracking the murderer, II from
them and others afterwards the de-
tails Of the crime were learned.
1t appears that the elder Turner,
who resided with his family at Provo,
Utah, had been sheriff of his county
for some time past. and that his son
had frequently been associated with
him in bringing the guilty to justice,
and among others who had been
brought to punishment through his in
strumentality was this Fred Welcome,
a young fellow who lived about town
and who was never known for any
good that he had done to any one. On
the contrary, he was considered as a
~loafer and beat, and was frequently ar,
rested for crime of greater or less mag.
nitude. and being arrested, was placed
in Jail. He seems to have held
young Turner to blame especially
for one term of his imprison
ment, believing that Turner who was
cognizant Of his crime. had informed
upon him. He laid this up as a grudge
against the young man. and threatened
vengeance upon him for the act, say.
ing to one of his fellow prisoners while
~incarcerated in the Jail: by Cd,
I'll kill him If it Is ten years from now.
I'll follow him to his grave
But nothing was thought of this
threat and others like it at the time
they were made. They were consider
ed as merely the vaporings Of an idle
mind. However, they were brought to
mind soon afterwards in connection
with the horrible suspicion that young
Turner had been murdered after leav'
ing home in company with Welcome,
who had been released from Jail.
AS soon as he vas out Of prison
Welcome set himself to work to pre-
vail upon the son of his jailer to &c
with him to the mining districts near
Park City, saying that he had a claim
there which was rich, and agreeing to
give half of it to Turner on condition
that the latter would go along and
take two teams and wagons. The prop
osition vas at first declined, but after.
wards. upon the urgent and repeated
solicitation of Welcome and the con
slant reiteration of his assertion as to
the value OF the mine Turner consent
ed to go. n all being in readiness
they started about the middle of June.
Turner had two good wagons and two
pairs Of animals quite tempting to the
eye of the lover Of horsefesh. The
wagons we're also well laden with food
for both nan and beast, there being
about a thousand pounds of barley in
one of the wagons.
The teamsters camped "a Park
City for several days, but 40 not ap-
pear to have begun work Immediately.
and while there were Joined by another
party, a man named Emerson. who
seems TO have been q pal and an &C.
complete of Welcomes. Together the
three lived for q while, sleeping in a
tent and making frequent excursions
to the city together. Whether there
were any quarrels among them does
appear. except upon the testimony
Of Welcome himself, who says there
a quarrel on the night Of the muir
der. but his story is probably not good
testimony In the connection.
The murder occurred on the even