The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-06

Cheyenne, wyo., March 6--(Spe- cia1)-Herbert Brink, murderer pius, formerly a hero in the eyes or tne inmates of the Wyoming penI.enllars' Ir is now. after seven years Of freedom' the most despised creature among the 300 in the prison-an outcast shuhteo by outcasts.
 Once under sentence of death TOT a +ripIe murder during the bloodlest eniroda of the last of the Wyoming range wars-the Tensleep ra1d 1n 19O9-Brink was saved by e4ecutlVe cIemency, five years later was paroled, broke parole and fled with his de- voted sister, a pretty and vivacious' girl of Debeque, Colorado, to British Columbia.
 Recently a faded, haggard. hungry woman, accompanied by her three starving children, appealed for assist ance to the authorities at Vancouver. The father of the children, she said, had cast her off. She was Brink's sister and the children, she said, were offspring of Brink.
 The Canadian Northwest Mounted Police promptly ran Brink to earth. He was witHng-even an8ious-in view of the revolting charge on which the Canadian authorities might prosecute him, to return to Wyoming without extra adition. Now he is back in the Wyoming penitentary, to serve the remaining twenty-one years of h1s commuted sentence for murder.
 The Story Spreads.
 There is caste even among conv1cts. The story of Brink'S career while he was a fugitive in Canada quickly spread from mouth to mouth through the prison, and the erstwhile hero of the 'hard-boiled" Is held in profound est contempt and viewed with undis- guised hostility by those compelled to associate with him-criminals all, but all regarding themselves as infinitely his superiors in moral decency.
 '. In 1913 Brink was the leader of a convict mob that lynched in the penftentiary negro, charged with crime against an aged white woman prison for safe. keeping while await ing arraignment and promptly was hanged by the convtcts. Now as he covers at his machine in the shirt ions appreh ensively, wildly in his mind recollection that even the peni- tentfary is not a safe refuge for one who too evily has transgressed decency.
 The ''TensIeep Raid."
 The "Tensleep raid" for par-dcipa- tfon in which Brink and another, Lorenzo Paseo, were sentenced to the gallows, and three others were sen fenced to penitentiary terms, provided fare between Western cattlemen and sheepmen for possession of publicly owned grazing lands, the savagery of the episode so arousing public sentf-
 
 did cattlemen dare to organize to draw dead Hnes'' on the open range, and by assassination to intimidate sheep men to not cross these lines with their f1ocks.
 Sheep Her1ers Defy CattIemen.
 Such "dead ine' was established early in 1909 in the Tensleep region of Big Horn county. Wyoming. Three fockmasters- Ennge and Lazier-defied the catt1emen ] and drove a herd of sheep across the line into 'icattle territory While they watched their flock by night they were attacked by an armed band, shot to death, their bodies and their camp equipment burned and more than l. % of their sheep driven over a preci- pice. For weeks the identity of the murderers was a. mystery, but even tually Joe LeFors, a range detective too courageous to be discouraged by open community hostility and threats of death if he persisted in his fnves- Hgation, obtained evidence which re- suited in the arrest of Brink, Paseo, Thomas Dixon, Milton A. Alexander and George Saban.
 The latter two were prominent cat tlemen; the other three their em- ployes. Feeling was so bitter during the trials of the quintet at Basin that