The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-09


to shoot him In the dark. However he
went. six-shooter in hand, and sticking 70
in the face of the caller, demanded his business
The man protested that he meant no harm, but
had come from Buck Holley who lived tive
miles down the road and said he knew Captain
Mcdonald and wanted to see him. The Ranger
captain reflected a minute.
II don't know any Buck Holley." he said
i Knew scoundrel by the name OF Bill Holley
some years ago up In the Panhandle and II that
is who 1t is don't want to see him. Judge
you fellows have got gang down the road
there 10 shoot me from ambush Who are YOU
anyway"
The man said his name was Monasco: thai
ne was staying at Hoey's and that he had
orother named BIZ Monasco, in Amarillo
know Bill Monasco." Mcdonald said. "and
ne mas brother that was sent to the peniten.
tiary. Is that your"
me visitor acknowledged that he was the
mah-that ne had been recently released
Well" said Mcdonald. that's about tbs
KING, kinu OF crowd would expect to find Bill Hoi.
icy running with. and you can tell this Ruck
,ioiiey, as you call him, that suspect him of
oeing connected with this mob and that used
make MIN stand hitched in the Panhandle
anu that I'm going to do the same here"
Monasco said Good night" and Captain Nc.
donald never saw him again. Somewhat later.
when he met Bill Holley he said:
Look here Bill. I'm afraid your partner
mohasco' didht tell you the message sent the
night came said didn't know Rucl. IJo,Iov
out that knew sorry bulldozine scoundrai
oy 'ne name OF BIZ Holley. and that supposed
e.. "'s uown ,ne road there to take shot at me
from ambush. You weren't In this lyncbing
MOB. reckon. but they're your friends ana
you'd heip EN- If you could. Now, Bill you,ve
peeh counting funeral good while and n vo,,
Try any OF your nonsense here, you'll win ont /"
me Ranger captain was out early the morn.
10 ~.
me tracks OF the five horses were followed -
the houses of Joe Wkerson and his sop pro.,,
ana 10 the homes of John and Arthur Greenbaw
III Joe WiiKerson's lot he found part of n well.
rope the remainder of W, ich lad been cpt a,,a,,
IL matched precisely with the rope used to bans
VIC 'iu'iphreys--the fire -.y cut ends being the
same on both. The Wilkersons and ono ~ tha
Greenhaws were taken into custodv sorthuits
ana other arrests followed as the crimfnaIe ,yar
tracked home "eiS
me testimony brought out the facts that
.ne humphreys had known of an Illicit stiIl RIM
py TWO men-one Polk Weeks and man namea
oonns Also that they had known of John
ureehhaw stealing cattle and hogs. and that
John Greenhaw had once drawn n eur ~ .nS
eioer humphrey. who had promptly taken -
away from him. instead of killing him WITH ~
anu rendering the community a service These
things adoed to the other provocations ALREADY
naniea, nad made the Humphreys sufficiently
ueuar bottoms to warrant their being hung 10 q
iiinp' uussed up to swing clear of the gronnd
Guilty knowledge of the crime act,a,,,, ,.,,,.
a man named Ell Sparks. whose conscience To-
. .uieu nim day and night to the point of eivin,
.o''iohy' YET whose fears upon the witnass
slahd caused him to withhold the truth He
Vas iarse' redfaced man. evidently greatly ex.
,'eu wheh questioned and concealing mora thar
ne told Soon after his first examina,ia nan
captain Mcdonald and offered to TESTIFY oaa,,,
saying that ne had been too fr,gbtened 10 80;
,ne run the hrst time but thought he COLA
ao oe.ter now The Ranger captain scrnt;niaas
ST. m heeniy ana made the prophecy thar hi
ria % wv "oa , not nve 80 days. unless he got
.iu OF the load on his conscience He dioa e ~
Just haif that time; not, however min -.
fully confessed 'h'h ne mad
ehorts or the men believed IN he -
IhI as principals in the crime To estah,th
Iina ,. were sometimes wary some
a", o,uueiy absurd and always fruitless M
,bont thn.' mat elat was weaving and linking itself
1aon mem became daily more tightly woyor
more impossible to tear away K..' "oVeh'
ewes closely watched, they dared MOI e.t .nen
ISM. 10 DO SO would be to confess ctr. W
,ai',' wouid De well-nigh certain Lilo 49,
lying colnpassed the death of a neiebhor .t'n'
anna 70 'a.Aoio,h and went softly" Finally q
3ame 10 pass that three of these ..ohuaay !.
oeNai, turned states evidence Gu OF
,oniessea fuliy, sacrificing their comra.S ~, 'iiey
ie' lne law, to save themselves EIauo,. un'
Including these three. were brought to tra, men.
- me maj trial John and Arthur croo,,
lna FOLK Weeks. who were not only mnra nnaw
,u' vo%aray traitors were given their freedem
light aSsoetat lor .heir evidence that sent their
FOLK Weeks. in giving his evidenoo oi me
Iuoh disturbed but confessed how p ~
- the tree and tied the ropes, ans nao
n ne" 700 long, making it NECESSARY I son 'Ieu
sss OF the Humphreys to be bent ynw o 'as
his hnt e a ground John Greenhaw corroborateS
musinr IL hae b as ne told Il, remembering how
Ne ~ naa been He did not live 70 an Low
Us freedom, for he was shot dead 80 20 enjoy
= nh liberation. by Willie Humphrey SON SOM slset
a,, une younger Humphreys, and no mn :, one