prestigious award for putting a cowardly culprit away for the rest of his life. This shouldn't come as a surprise as most Utah small town cops are notorious-notoriously good cops who are properly trained but know how to deal with people. Since 1851, cops in Juab County, from Mammoth to Mona-have been called Sheriff's Deputies; Police officers; City Marshals and "Special Police" as my grandfather was in 1900. In 1950, it was Juab Sheriff Ray Jackson teaming up with Millard Sheriff Robinson and Fillmore Marshal Clayton Edwards to catch the two thugs who robbed and kidnapped Rob Garrett from "The Serv". Rob was book smart but also street smart and talked them out of doing away with him. He was released from the get away car on the Levan ridge and got their license plates. How about Wm. Fisher Tolley, the Salt Creek Marshal teaming up with Porter Rockwell; Sheriff Parley Christensen locking up Butch Cassidy at the Juab County Jail; Ross Tolley walking the beat in Nephi or Gideon Sidwell patrolling Main Street on his horse. Jack Brough's father was "Big Ern" Brough, and the story is he got in a shoot out with a bad guy and "Carter's Café" sign was accidentally shot down. We are not sure who did what as the story kept changing every time it was retold at "Von's" Barber Shop(later Bob's). We do know the owner-Earl Carter had a reputation to give free hotcakes to all cowboys when the Ute Stampede came to town.
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