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Hans Peter Rasmussen, a ancestor that had come to state from Denmark. Settling down in Molen during the winter times and in the "hollar" during the summer time. One summer day in the late 90's two men on horseback rode onto Han's farm and asked permission to stay for about a week. Han's wife Anna gave them permission to sleep in the stable. They were polite and well mannered. They had good horses, saddles, and were well dressed in Western-style clothing. They gave their names as Gillis and Fowler. Anna became a little suspicious, for one of the men would sleep all day while the other one stayed on guard. Then the Desert News arrived with large headlines about a payroll robbery at Helper, Utah. The train had come in from the East carrying $60,000 to pay the miners in Carbon County. As the train stopped people crowded around. The baggage man handed the payroll satchel to a Chinese man to take into the depot. Then two strangers stepped up. They tapped him on the head with a gun and said, "drop that." They took the satchel and rode off. They rode south over the desert directly to Rasmussen's home, an ideal place for a hideout.
Now Hans and Anna knew. Anna left the newspaper on the table for the strangers to read. As the two men read the paper the family heard them chuckling about it. They stayed on for another two or three days. Hans wisely did nothing as he wanted no trouble. The men rode off with a third man with their supplies. Their real names were Joe Moarty, Jack Moran and Butch Cassidy.

Posse organized to give chase to Wild Bunch
L to R: Standing, Unidentified; On horse, George Hiatt, T. Kelliher, Joe Lefors, H. Davis, S. Funk, Thomas Jefferson Carr.
(I found this picture on the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid "From Wyoming Tales and Trails".)