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Show Page 9 her . She was agreeab le , tried hard to make good plain prints , but she wouldn ' t talk . I didn ' t urge her much; just locked her back up again. In the night the watchman came to my home to tell me she was crying somethin g awful . The next morning she told her story in full . I think she figured it would shorten The her sentence if she ' d come clean and return part at least of their stolen stuff . officers didn' t hg_ve Anything on her , but Jack Weston had a crimina l record as long as your arm. lie ' d been in jail off and on since 1901--th irty three years . Eight times , I think it was , he' d been locked up , and he was wanted on at least that ma~y more charges . (I will enclose his record for the benefit of the editor. } So she gave me quite a list of stolen things at the Weston ranch , includin g two valuable horses , new saddles , and other paraphe alia stolen from p allon , Nevada , and told me the location of two caches of stolen wool and gas , and of their main hangout . She even made maps of these last three so we ' d be sure and find them. Her story of what happened after they left Lew fastened to the ~ interest ed me because it gave a little better idea of what kind of man Jack ;les·ton was . They drove through Cedar City, she said , taking a back street , and the 54 miles on to • She wanted to take hi1:. st . G€orge , when the pain t,ot so b2d he couldn ' t stand it . to the hospita l or get some hel-p , but he wouldn ' t listen. nerve . Sure must have had an iron She went thru the east end of town and down across the river bridge where she most helped him out in the shade of a big rock about 3/4 of a mile off the road in the isolated spot you could i magine . a hammer and cold chisel . She come to tovm and got some first aid e r• uipment and When she got back to where he was , she treated the wound as well as she could and got one hand cuff off . But he was in so much pain that she come back after some pain killer tablets and thermos full of ice water . As soon as it was It dark she loaded him in and started over that roUffl road for his brother ' s ranch . seems that as long as he was alive he was master of the situatio n , directed her anc1 told her what to do and used the best of judgmen t . He thought if he could get to . George' s ranch ;wt thout being caught l~e' d get medical help and be safe from officers For fifty miles or so he directed her . Aftlrnr that he didn ' t speak anymore . She didn ' t know when he died , but she got lost , like I said before . She seemed to feel better after she ' d told her story , sort of relieved like , and when the lron County officers cmne for her she was in full control of herself . I never saw her again, but she pled guilty to the charge of an attempt to murder Lew Fife and was sentence d to an indeterm inate terin of five years to life in the Utah State Pen, where she is now. I understa nd that she got fifteen months extra for taking his car out of tho state , That ' s a federal offence. |
