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Show Juanita Brooks st. George, Utah J Jack Weston, The Last Outlaw of The Arizona. strip As :bold by Will Brooks, Sheriff of Washington County, Uta h 1926-1935 To call Jack Weston an outlaw of the Arizona strip may be to under-estim@ te his activities, for his range was not bounded by state lines, but since his main hide-out was on the Arizona strip and since that is where he finally died and was buried, the title does seem appropriate. In all my experience as sheriff,· I ( never knew another like him. He stole just for the love of the game, to see if he could get away with it. lie often took things for which he had no use--like the set of deep sea fishing apparatus that he had hidden on the desert where there was hardly water to drink. As I said before, he operated over most of the west. -tie served time in the Washington state l?en twice; he served a tenn in the Arizona state prison under the name of John Coulter Sullivan; he was sought tor shooting Deputy Sherif~ L.B. Chiara in Bittle Mountain, Nevada, in 1932. An epidemic ot store robberies in sacram.ento Valley in which fifteen stores were looted was traced to him. There is very good evidence "" that he robbed ·t he bank of st. George, ~tah, and positive proof that it was he who backed his truck up to Judd's store in HU.rricane one night and fairly gutted the place. It was in the spring ot 1934 that Sheriff Lew Jfife finally got weston,and came nearl-sr losing his own life doing it. I had the story fran Lew as he sat in my home, his face still pale and drawn fran his experience and his hands heavily bandagei. Fran then on I was a member of the group who traced down the Weston hide-outs. . |
