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Ogden, Utah, Oct. 22. – Through information
imparted by one Donald, Sheriff Layne of Ogden has captured a man
said to be one of the persons concerned in the hold-up of the Union
Pacific train at Wilcox, Wyo., June 2, when a large amount of money
was taken from the express company’s safe. The prisoner is James
C. Lyle, and he was taken at Rigby, Idaho Thursday night. He was not
told why he was being arrested until the officers had succeeded in
spiriting him over the line into Utah.
Lyle, as well as Donald, who the authorities
think had some connection with the robbery himself, is now locked up
in this city. Donald, who apparently knows all of the details of the
robbery, says there were nine men in the gang, which included the
notorious leader of the “Robbers’ Roost” gang, “Butch”
Cassidy, Lyle, and others. Donald says that after the gang escaped
from the officers who had rounded them up in Wyoming at the time of
the killing of Sheriff Hazen of Rawlins, Wyoming, they went over the
Big Horn Mountains, down into the Windy River country, on toward the
Sweetwater, and again touched the Union Pacific at Green River,
where they took the trains for various directions.
Among Lyle’s effects was a discharge from
Troop G, First United States Calvary, better known by the name of
Torrey’s Rough Riders. |
