The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-30
NEW STORIES
ABOUT MAXWELL
Residents of Price Hear Sew
eraI Additional Chapters
in History.
HIS CAREER IN WYOMING
SPRINGVlLLE MEN HAVE CAUSE
TO REMEMBER VISIT.
HIS CAREER IN WYOMING
Especial to The neutrality-suspicious.


Price. Aug. 29.-While all the west talks
about the demise Of "Gunplay" Maxwell,
new incidents are being added to his his
tory with each day that goes by.
His career Of crime is supposed now to
have started at Thermopolis. Wyo. from
which place he departed from the daily
routine of a cowboy, on one Of the big
ranches. TO start a small butcher shop in
the then new town. firing of paying for
his meats, when picking up stock on the
stock to kill
Finally he landed a bunch of stock be-
longing to a widow, well remembered
there. and. under the name of Dick Carr,
served term in the Wyoming peniten-
tiary. This fact IS substantiated by the
man who employed him before he opened
his meat shop, and the old timers about
TheTmopOlis will remember him by that
name.
From this same man. who passed
through Price after Maxwell was dead il
was learned that, before the SpTingvilie
bank robbery was attempted Maxwell
left ThermOpOlis with Billie Pearson, who
was well known there. and Pearson was
never heard from afterward, because he
was killed trying to get away with the
booty from the Springvile bank when
Maxwell was captured. and Maxwell re-
fused always to give up the secret of mis-
dead partners name.
That one crime was said BY this in
tOrmant to have been the only one Pear
son ever committed. and he was buried
in the potter's field because no one could
or would identify him
Movements Near Helper.
1t develops now that Maxwell went to
the ranch of Z. T. Jones. near Helper. on
Thursday, Aug. 10, and tried to buy a
horse from Jones, offering Jones q 500
check on the Price bank in payment.
which was refused Then he went to
Spring Glen, two miles east of Helper,
where he went into the hills and passed
the night al Wesley Gentry's sheep camp,
returning Friday morning TO Spring Glen,
where he stayed under cover until Sat
urdRy morning
The paymaster at Kenilworth was due
that day to pass through Spring Glen, and
Maxwell started out Saturday morning
1t rained during the day. and Maxwell
was soaked with rain and covered with
mud when he returned, disgruntled, to
Spring Glen, and told companion he
was going to Helper. They started out,
but came TO the railroad after a few rods
travel, when Maxwell suddenly remem-
beIed that there was important business
awaiting him in Price, and he walked here
instead of to Helper.
1t was probably the fact that the pay
master was well guarded through Spring
Glen to Kenilworth that was MaXwell's
undoing, and his discontinue over the
turn IN affairs was plainly evident when
he came to Price looking for trouble
which he found, in larger chunks than he
was accustomed to.
Springville, Aug. 29-Must interest has
been shown in this town the last few
days over the killing of "Gunplay" Max
well. and should his captOT. Ed. johnson.
walk into town, he no doubt would be re-
Ceived as a hero, and entertained as roy
ally as the president
Not a few citizens of Springvile have
occasion to remember Maxwell and the
episode here, several years ago. Two. at
least, A. o. Packard. who faced the re-
volvers in the bank, and Joseph Allen.
who lost leg in the skirmish, i'm which
Maxwell was captured at the mouth Of
Hobble Creek canyon, will never forget
MaXwells visit to this place. The af-
fair has been the street talk for the last
few days.