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- . - +------Story That Butch (assidayWants to Surrender,• 11 ■ —TALKS WITH MEDIATORVARIED OPINIONS BY OFFICERS ! ON TRUTH OF TALE. !In the opinion of Deputy Sheriff Ben Harries. Hutch Cassiday, the notorious j bank robber and outlaw, is or has been » undtr cover in or near Salt I-ahe City, but whether Butch is ready to give himself up on condition that the public prosecutors make a number of lib-eral concessions to him, is a matter about which the deputy who has been following a mysterious clue, has Lv-rlous doubts. Other officers, however, whohave run the story down are satisfied that there are nothing but pipe dreams as a basis for the talk about the surrender of the fugitive.As told by Deputy Sheriff Harries, the ! story is that a few evenings ago he met by appointment an individual of shady reputation, vouched for by a Mr.• Smith.” who volunteered the information that Butch Cassiday desired to surrender himself to the officers of the law, on condition that Governor Wells would guarantee that he would be punished. on his plea of guilty, only on the charge of robbing Paymaster E- L.[ Carpenter of the Pleasant Valley Coal I company of several thousand dollars, at Castle Gate in April. 1897; that all other j indictments against him would be dis- i missed and that the Utah executive would agr^e to not let him be extradited to Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho or I : Oregon, where the outlaw is wanted for I bank robberies and kindred highlacu • , IInterview With Butch’s Agent.This interview, states Deputy Harries, was not the most satisfactory and a second conference was resorted to. Nothing tangible was accomplished at the last meeting, for the officer was without the authority to treat for the governor, since the executive is out of the state, and, besides, there was no telling what the governor would consent to do in order that Cassiday might become a boarder at the state prison
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Salt Lake City Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Jun 30, 1900
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