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Show 4- amazed. Not one man in a\nillion would ever have \ got away, but his bones would literally have bleached there tor years, so isolated was the spot. The tree was-~kteen or f ~ n teet high, I'd Judge, a young pine. ~he first and only large branch took ott trom the ground about a toot up and was a 11 ttle more than de inc.hes around. Lew got his hands onto a rock that had a sort of an edge, and with this, he began ha.eking at that lowest branch. ~he afternoon was an age; the cuffs were on so tight that his hands swelled and turned black. Still ~e hacked at that limb~ though there were times when he , lost consciousnes s with the pain. All afternoon, all evening, all night he kept at it, until by the middle of the next torenoon he was able to push against it with his shoulder and break it oft. Now he could get to his knees. '.l.'he smaller branches bent up with- in his encircling . arms; those a little larger he broke with his shoulders, and after he got to a standing position he used his legs and feet to break others. By noon he had climbed to the top of the tree, but with the pain in his hands and fatigue and hunger, he fainted and fell. Luckily he fell clear of the tree, with only minor scratches. He made his way to the road, was picked up and taken home, and at once got on the trail of the man and woman~ By the time he got to st. George, we had picked up enough information to deeide that the man was Waston and that he had gone to the Arizona strip. soon- after we had left town, Lew recognized the - tracks of his car where it turned off the road and the tracks of the woman where she had opened a gate. we must go 110 miles to the Weston Ranch, over roads that were little better than rabbit trails. our party consisted of Lew and I, Bill tnlton and John Cottam, our deputies, with wallace Mathis as guide. It took fran. ten o'clock in the morning until after dark at night to |
