The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-10-21

men were headed for Williams Cache |
and had reason to believe, until they. |
sighted Banks men, that their path |
was open.
They halted to take counsel on the
suspicious-looking posse far below
them, and while their cruelty ex
hausted horses rested. Du Sang, al
ways In Sinclair's absence the brains
of the gang, planned the escape over
Deep creek at Bags crossing. At
dusk they divided two men lurking in
the brush along the creek rode as
close as they could. unobserved, to-
ward the crossing, while Du Sang and
the cowboy Karg, known as Flat Nose,
rode down to Baggs' ranch at the foot
of the pass.
At that point Dan Baggs, an old To-
connective engineer, had taken home
stead, got together a little bunch of
cattle, and was living alone with his
son, boy of ten years. 1t was
hard country and too close to Will
liams Cache for comfort. but Dan got
on with everybody because the tough
est man in the Cache country could
get meal, feed for his horse, and
place to sleep at Baggs', without
charge, when he needed it.
Ed Banks, by hard riding, got to the
crossing at five o'clock, and told Bags
of the hold-up and the shooting of
Oliver Sellers. The news stirred the
old engineman, and his excitement
threw him off his guard. Banks rode
straight on for the middle pass, leav-
ing word that two Of his men would be
along within half an hour to watch the
pass and the ranch crossing, and asked
Baggs to put up some kind of fight for
the crossing until more of the posse
came up--at the least, to make sure
that nobody got any fresh horses.
The boy was cooking supper in the
kitchen, and Baggs had done his milk
ing and gone back to the corral, when
two men rode around the corner of the
barn and asked If they could get
something to eat. Poor Baggs sold his
life in six words: why, yes; be you
Banks mem"
Du Sang answered: mo; we're from
| Sheriff Coon's Office at Oroville, look
/ ing up a bunch of Duck Bar steers
that's been run somewhere up Deep
creek. Can we stay here all night?"
They dismounted and disarmed
Bags suspicious, though the condi-
ton Of their horses might have warned
him had he had his senses. The I'M
fortunate man had probably fixed it in
his mind that ride from Tower w to
Deep creek in 16 hours was physical
impossibility.
Stay here? Sure! l want you to
stay" said Baggs, blufiy. Looks to
me like | seen you down at Crawling
Stone, amt II" he asked of Karg.
Karg was lighting a cigarette. 81
used to mark at the Dunning ranch,
he answered, throwing away his
match.
That's hit Good! The boys cook
ing supper. Step up to the kitchen
and tell him to cut ham for four more
Four"
Two of Ed Banks men will be here
by six o'clock. Heard about the hold
up? They stopped Number Three al
Tower w last night and shot Ollie
Sellers, as white a boy as ever pulled
a throttle. Boys. man that'll kill g
locomotive engineer is worse'n an In
dian; I'd help skin him."
The hell you would" cried Dr
Sang. WELL don't you want to star
in on me? / killed Sellers. Look al
: me- amt handsome? What you go
ing to do about it?"
Before Baggs could think Du Sans
was shooting him down. 1t was wan
ton. Du Sang stood in no need of the
butchery; the escape could have beer
made without it. His victim had pulled
an engine throttle too long to show
the white feather, but he was dyinl
from his pocket. Du Sang did tn,
r killing alone. At least, Flat Nose
/ who alone saw all of the murder after
Y ward maintained that he did not draw
! because he had no occasion to, ant
/ that Bags was dead before he, Karg
1 had finished his cigarette. With hi
2 right arm broken and two bullet
2 through his chest, Bags fell on hi
/ face. That, however, did not checl
MS HiuIuSleI' hiolHS W NIB hHSes
. Bags begged for his life. For God
4 sake! I'm helpless, gentlemen, In
9 helpless. Don't kill me like dog!
g But Du Sang, emptying his pisto
g threw his rifle to his shoulder and sen
S bullet after bullet crashing throug
o the shapeless form writhing an
! twitching before him until he ha
e beaten 1t in the dust soft and fiat an
e still.
: Banks men came up within an hou
I to find the ranchhouse deserted The
S saw lantern in the yard below. an
|, near the corral gate they found tn
little boy in the darkness, screamin
e beside his fathers body. The sheriff
I men carried the old engineman to tn
G house; others of the posse crossed til