The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14
Crime Breeds Crime: A Western Tale

1t seemed from the story of Showers
that when the two found that Renowden
had company they were scared. but after
drinking from a bottle they carried had
screwed their courage up to entering the
cabin. They made the pretense of being
strangers in quest of the shortest cut to
Los Gatos. Renowden stepped outside TO
point the. way, and Jewel shot. him. Nc
Intyre followed TO the door at the SOUND
of the shot. and became Jewels second
victim. This part of the narration was
false. but was accepted then.
After the murder panic seized the as
sassns and they fled wildly down the
mountain to tell their principal of their
failure and their deed He cursed them
for pair of fools. babe them fly the
country, and then destroyed the cabin
himself. not knowing that the body OF
Renowden was outside, there to be found
and to betray.
The people considered all these facts
and were firm in insistence upon second
trial The utmost that Majors could do
was to get a change of venue to Alameda
county Oakland, where he was tried,
and, after long delay and stubborn fight.
as we'll as one brief escape, was hanged,
a desperate unrepentant.
The Sons of Majors.
During the trial of Majors his two
boys were i'm the court room. The older
was not over 7, the second about years
younger They had no conception OF the
solemnity of the occasion, and when their
father was seen no more wondered why
their mother wept But as they grew they
could realize the bar sinister. There was
a cloud about them. They were summed,
even tainted with the truth after they
had reached an age TO feel the thrust
They became reckless. Their mother who
was a good woman. could not control
them. They were taken in hand by
sort of feminine Fagin. with the result
that while still in their teens they were
| both convicts in Folsom penitenuary as
burglars. However, there was sympathy
felt for them both on account of their
history and their youth and before long
they were out on parole. For term OF
months they reported each thirty days as
required by law. Then they left the per-
sons who had given them employment and
vanished,
Take to Stage Robbery.
little later there was a stage robbery
i'm Utah. A posse took up the chase.
One of the bandits, smooth.faeed boy,
was shot. and the survivor. after staying
Captain Brown of the Ogden police, one
of the posse. was Overpowered The
prisoner refused to give his name or that
of his associate His photograph was
printed i'm the Salt Lake papers. and
upon reaching San Francisco was at once
| recognized as that of Abe Majors OF
course. his fellow bandit was his brother
Archie. Abe was tried and condemned 10
be shot but a second trial lesSened Inc
penalty to life imprisonment
The manner in which news travels
among inmates of penitentiary rs a
mystery. even to prison Officials. but II
| travels and no Introduction has been
found effective. News of the fate of the
Majors boys stirred the hundreds of con-
victs at Folsom. but particularly one
Pullman. a life-termer, who had formed
a friendship for them. He was furious.
and turned over in his mind schemes for
vengeance. Only one way occurred to him.
There was Showers. a prisoner In the
same institution with him. He would
wreak his hatred on this man.
Revenge on Informer.
/ And so he did. Procuring a file, he
! sharpened it into deadly blade. and.
meeting the fellow convict he had learned
! to regard as the prime cause of the trou-
BILE plunged the steel into him again and
again. The law took no cogniZance OF his
motives. There was not any plea of emo
| tional insanity interposed In his behalf.
1 and in due time Pullman dropped through
| the trap. his life sentence ended.
Thus to a crime of robbery planned in
! the EOS may be directly traced eight
deaths by violence. FOnr men were muir
! dered, three legally executed and one
| killed by pursuerS- What a malign force
was Lloyd Majors. the wheelwright. Ang
| il must not be forgotten that in the Utah
/ penitentiary there is hopeless convict
expiating the sin OF his father; while,
/ sadder. perhaps, than all. there is some
where. crushed and broken hearted. a
! widowed mother. whose memory is moth
! with equal grief her living and her dead.