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Show • Page 6 gave u~ his practice and went to ranching out on the Arizona Strip , near the Colorado I told L0w all this , but he had some re-ports from down below Las Vegas , Nevada , River . that sounded like they might have located them. By the third day , though , he found that it was a false lead . So assurning that this wan Weston , and that the first place he ' d head for would be his brother ' s ranch on the Arizona strip , I called my deDuty , John Cottam, and we set out to see if any of the ranchers from that section had come in within the last few days . Hy Atkin had. We hunted him up and found that a car had passed his croup in the night and a woman had inquired about the road to Thane ' s Ranch . know . Sure enough , That was all we wanted to We got Lew and his deputy , Dalton , right down and set out . We took WallRce Mathis along for a guide because that ' s the best country in the world to get lost in. I doubt if the road maps even show that there ' s a road out in that direction . do they ' ll :mark it "unimurovea . f!" That don ' t half tell it . I f they It ' s just like the jumping off place , no town out there at all , nothing but a few ranches , miles and miles apart wherever there happens to be a spring . You can~t tell which roa9- is which; there ' s no markers nor sign posts anywhere , but tracks running along side of each other with others coming in or taking out till I wonder how even the ranchers find their way . About 35 m:i.les out , at Wolf Hole , Lew recognized the print of his tires where they had turned in for gas . The woman ' s tracks were there too , the sarne stick- on rubber soleo that had been at the sheep corral where they took the wool and again in the cedars where they left Lew. barbed vlire gate . We saw them again where she had got out to open a We left st . George in pretty good time , tlbout 10 o ' clock in the morning, I ' d judge , and we were till after dark going 110 miles, so you can tell by the::\. t how the roads were • We went a little out of our way to Mt . Trrnnbull and got the constable , Ben Bundy, to go along with us , so we ' d bo within the Arizona law. There we found out from one of the Bundy eirls th~t thi s woman was at the Weston ranch all right . just as well begin calling her h~ her name, I guess . I She was only a common law wife to Jack; her name was Daisy Butler , though she sometimes signed it Narr;aret Carter . Well , the Bundy girl told us how Daisy Butler ca.'11.e in nuite early one morning and called L~rs . ieston out . There was something suspicious about the way they acted , but the girl naturally didn't know what the trouble was . see Jack Weston at all , sho saic1 , and George was not at home . She didn ' t |
