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Show rage 7 Ve got to the Pahrashant Ranch , .. bout six miles below Teston ' s , after dar • John Cottam wanted to go right up , ret the peo--'Jle , and head back for St . George that nir-:,ht , as we wasn ' t too well fix,:1d for caI1ping out . got wind of He argued that if they the fact th~t we were in the country they ' d take to the cedars and we never could find them. That hu.---idred and ten miles back home in the night rnuldn ' t mean a thing to John. The rest of us out voted hir1, tho '. had been r eported dead too many ti"eeo for us to take chances . Jack oston So part of the c r o a_ s·)ent the night with the ranchers , Jack /i gfins aml Bill Sorenson , :mcl the rest caJT1ped on the ro ~d . It was the only way :..nyone fron the Weston ranch could p,et in or out . the w .... y , these men !1·1d seen Lew' s car pass go ing toward they went over it :ra sn't chore . aJ l , especially a bi It wc.s unusual for any c ar to c;o out that \7ay at one like tk1 t ·,nc1 in t c norninG too , so ,hey tlluup-,ht it nirht l ave some conri. ect ion u:i. th the J u e the p' pers was E 11 est on ' s , but when ble ' s kid..nm) )in, ,. - It was a out the t i n~o th3t full of that c...ff ir·. rrhesc men had wrote me < letter a out the c ar , but hadn ' t e;ot to where they could post it yet, so give it tone that ni ;ht . I -thiDJt I' 11 enclose it -:·or the cntertai11rent of the ed.L tc. r o didn ' t :iny of tw f' le e.9 much th t ni,.,.,ht and before d; yl i rht we nere up on our way . I took J ack na. ie;bins nnd. Bill so_enson wit' r.1e horseb· c ( to ci -r•cle tho 1· ce md conm in "t the b,.,ck . r:1ho others folJ . owed the road 'nd were 'to su round the hous e . The res,:;on ranch lays in a long , narrow 1 bottle-shaped valley , wooded vri th :pine and cedur, with the house at the u-, er encl . '/hen we ,ot close to the nlace , we sent i o;ins to the house, an he w·_s cmi te well acquainted with the women . stayed back aways and out of q1·ght . . Bill and I Both women corae t o th e door when he knocked and J2.c: passed tho time of day with them, talked a minute or tuo , and then told them the house ves surrounded by officers cone to get Daisy Butler , and advised them not to make any t rouble . They both started to tc9llr at once . - cue , so we came up and I went to arrest the Butler won1an. tooth u vve could see that was our Ge orge , s wife flew at me nd nail and .Mi.ss Butler showed scra 1 too , but Bill ~·ot hold of the one and Jack the other . ~ 8$vv As soon as I slipped the handcuffs o , they both nuieted down . Thon we led ~ ~.rou d to the front and dovm to whore the other officers were . At the si ht of her Le• looked sick , I I tho' t f~ gu.:, ess h1·s ne'Yl-n'es wa~~ still unstrung~ anyway ~v o. minute he was going to fci nt . She had her head dom and when I asked her is she knew that nn-rn , '3he caught rlight of his hands first--they were still all done u --and. I saw her start . went white as chalk , Sh e 1 oo k e d a t 1ns · f ace for a second , then her mm broke out c ·yine;, "Thank CDd you ' re free . I , ve ·nrayed |
