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Show J.:f:>:1 .i.J - DESE T O(J1J.LA • J -:..CK that truth :.s st1.Pn8er than fiction , nd that ' s what I when I heara. the story of Lew Fife's experience with Jack Weston. I've lived a good many years and I've hearcl a good many stories in my tine , stories of the mine and the range and frontier , but this one strikes me as being worth retellmg. Last spring there was a number of thefts throu.g.YJ. this state (Utah) and Nevada . I got calls about stolen license plates from Enter:>rise , a load of stnlen hides , a Chev coupe stolen ancl. wrecked just north of he1 e , md of others . mnnbor About the first of r:ay--the ninth to be exact--som.ebody took a load of ~ool from Newcastle . I was notified with all the other officers along the line , to keep a loo~- out for it , but being in Iron county , She~iff Le; Fife was called to investigate . Now, Newcastle is just a dozen families or so off in the mountains over thirty miles from the nearest toTITI , with dirt roads leading in and out . When Lew got there he coulan' t find a trace of anything except some tracl:s . These seemed to be of a ton and a half truck with diar.10ndtread tires on both hind wheels and the right front one . There were foot prints too , plain , of two -people both with stick-on rubber soles v1i th a well ms.rked desig_n on the bottom. 9:1 One was large , a at least, and the other smaller . He,l.l , Low looked these over , but they were all he had . truce come in or go out . No one hacl seen a It rrouldn't be so easy , either, to locate a car v1ithout knowing the make , license n11.'71ber , color , or nnything about it . Lew could see where they had turned around and headed for Pioche , lJevada , so he got his car and followed the track . That was when he got his first clue . Ho saw where the truck had pulled off the road , so he stopped and went to look things over. He reE.. d what had happened as plain as if he'd been there and seen it . Ppth hind tires had been changed , because vn1en the car moved on both tracks were different . The footprints were the same tho '. He followed this new track to where it hit the highway headed for Pioche and then he lost it , naturally. Hes ent three dnys out through thnt country hunting for leads but the case loolrnd pretty hopeless . He couldn ' t get enough in ormt~tion to wo~k on. give it un und started borne to Cedur City. So he On his way back , about 8 o ' clock in the morning , he happened to notice a track that took off into the cedars . looked like the one he li:. a. been following so he got out r,nd examined it. Sure enough , it was the same , but it looked too old to have any connection It |
