The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-26

from the lining OF a coat, and on the
back of this canvas a strip of court plas-
crudely manufactured, but, as Sheriff
Keller remarked, 1t would look natural
enough behind a six-shooter."
One of MaXWeli's recent plans was TO
roo the bank at Green River, Utah, and
the other was 10 hold I'D the paymaster
as he was carrying his money from the
Price bank to Kenilworth, six miles dis
tant.
Sheriff Keller first learned Of the plan
10 ron the Green River bank on July 8,
ana work on his counterpart began i'm
medioteiy. he came to Salt Lake and
engaged Ed Johnston as deputy and also
engaged John McQuarrie, another deputy
OF unquesuoned courage and skillfut with
a gun. In his plan to rob the Green
River bank, Maxwell had enlisted the
anu OF I'VE men, four of whom are known
the details of their plan.
Plan to Rob Bank.
Green River is seventy-five miles east
OF Price, on the Denver q Rio Grande
railroad, with hardly a settlement be-
tween the two towns. Under the plan
mace by Maxwell, one of his accOmDlices
took a string of saddle horses to point
near Desert Switch, about seventeen miles
west Of Green River. There the horses
We're pastUred in a meadow, where
blind stream rises from the desert. form
ing sort of secluded oasis near the rail-
road tracks. The robbery was to have
been accomplished during the week Of
July II to July a and the horses were
az the meadow near Desert Switch on
July II.
The plan. as prearranged, was for Max
well and the others TO go to a point
near Green River on freight trains as
the pest way to avoid detection. and ali
were TO meet at a point known as the
lone tree two miles from Green River,
where the horses would be in waiting.
Maxwell had planned the hOld-up to be
effected at noon, when the bank is in
charge OF only one man From the clone
Jree' rendezvous the band could ride
down a gully to within $50 yards of the
Green River bank before they would be
seen from the town.
The plan then was to rush" the bank
as quickly as possible. leaving one man
outside 70 watch the horses and another
TO hold back any one who might come
TO the assistance of the lone man in the
bank, while Maxwell. with three OF four
others. was to do the work inside.
Their plan for escape was as carefully
arranged as that Of attack. After clean
ing out the bank the party was to ride
back through the gulch by which thew
had entered the town and then make for
Cedar Mountain. From there, a circuit
was to be made towards Robbers ROOst,
made famous by Butch Cassidy and
his gang twenty-five years ago.
Maxwell had anticipated that any posse
would make straight for this spot and
his plan was to double on the lead and
the gang was then TO scatter and make
towards Price, the members scattering
and coming in later from different direc-
tons
The plans of Sheriff Keller and his
deputies to capture the gang were spoiled
by an acCOmplice of MaXWelrs now liv-
ing in Green River, who warned Maxwell
that their plans for TObbmg the bank
were probably known, as a close watch
was being kept This was about July
20 and only a day or two before the raid
on the bank was to have been attempted.
Maxwell's Second Plan.
Maxwell left the country Immediately,
going to Ogden where he remained un-
til last Thursday morning with his second
wife Mrs. ". II. Seaman, as she calls
herself. Funds were apparently loW as
Maxwell paWned some Of the woman
jewels, on which he realized nearly 500.
before starting for Carbon county again,
Maxwell left Ogden at z o'clock on the
morning of Aug 10. arriving at Helper
shortly after noon the same day. 1t is
elieved that he hid in the railroad yards
there until after dark and then made
his way two miles westward to Spring
Glen, on the railroad between Helper and
Price.
Sheriff Keller learned Of his arrival in
Spring Glen Immediately. Maxwell evil
IDENTIFY feared that he might be watched,
and kept hidden in q cellar at Spring
Glen, where he slept Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights. On Saturday after
noon, when the paymaster rode through
Spring Glen on his way to kenllWOrth
he was accompanied by a strong guard.
Maxwell and a partner We're provided with
horses and hidden behind "a shack along
the road near the water tank half way
to kenilworth when the paymaster and