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Show Theobald-'• ,! . George Theobald ' s father wa.e a poU.c , and George remembers seeing a man hung tor atesling. Another time he aa.w a man aubbecl through the body and the knife buried 1n the tloor underneath• When G orge w'ae 9 yeara old he •s oamped with a bunoh ot acouta where Lehi now stands., and he walked 20 JI.ilea to see J ohilson •s &rJl1' ~h into Salt Lake 01'\y. Their unifo and swords. their gune and buttons gU.atening, in the sun •de a prototm.4 1mpr asion on his ohil d1ah mind and he never forgot it. · He took up a homeat•d near Pioche, Nevada. ~ tor yea.re had to "sleep With one eye open •to keep the water r1 ht he had on his ranch. He Says "I didntt kill qybody• but I was tempted to a great •ny timea . I drove men ott year a.tter year• but I we.a never driven ott, and. I never gave up till I got good and r dy. George Theobald aye, "About 1810 I•• liTing in Roae Valley. The stage ooaoh 'WD.S lleld up and a, ail r brlok was stolen · trom 1 t • There we.a a lot ot excitement about it but the robbers were never found• On day I•• working out in my place and ther were a lot ot under-growth and I saw a mn 1nealdn e.•y and I called to him •, 1llllt• • It n l y scared hia to d th. I knew hiln• hi• name ,-.a Jim lta.o. I had no r1 ht to hold him. lad no way of holding him• but I felt sure he was trying to get a•y tor some reason. So I let him go on, but I soon learned he had killed a man in. a saloon and was hurrying to get out ot sight. I found out later 1w was killed in .Sevier Co by a man named Wood trom Cedar 01 ty. Both lilD were killed . They were both thieves and it was a &tea.ling aora.pa they we.-• in when they were killed. "Before this while I was in Dunean, we were always being pester d by a gang ot thievea driving our horse and cattle ott. and stealing ev•rything they could get their hands on. The ot:f'ioers me.de a haul n4 chaaod a bunoh ot them into to they went into hiding 1n a. h :yy clump ot willows in t he Virgin River bed• - the river 'WB.S a. r ging .torrent and impaaaabl • The oftieera were worn out, and aent tor me to go 1n and rout them out• told me -to piok my man and X ohoae H&te ger. We went ~the undergrowth •e tettibly thiok• but we aw a log and on ea.oh aide was a dark objeot and when we aaoerta.ined the outline of the men and ee:w the ooata we kept algh'ty etill. We knew they would be tired and ma.ybe were a 1eep • We call ed. to t to throw up theb, ban.de, they did not m<>fl. We oalled louder and then we blazed away and ridd.1 · d thoae coate • y were empty and bad been put there to blind. us and the owners had plunged into that iows stream and made the other aide . !hey were nll a.rmed . On the other aide were found a bundle ot clothes and tracks 1 ding out. after four days of nakedness and starving they aent word they would surrender. One of them -.a aent to prison for 12 y •" . In 1866 Apoatle Erastus Snow wu the 1 . dier General 1n the United Ste.tea Vllitu, within the Territory ot·Utah and d bnm.ediate oontrol of the Southern Di ,iets where t here had been a lot of trouble 1dth the Indians. He oame dO'Wll and U1' d young men to rally to the ctetense ot the people~ And to hold themselves in readnesa to prot ot the helpl a women and children. He appohlted otfioera and r,a•e instruction the.t hostil a :va.,_a should be tau ht a la ti leaaon. The Ind1a.ne were of the Piede? Tribe and were regarded as an inferior g de of Redaen. |
