Matt Warner - Price, Utah
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BruceS
N 39° 35.960 W 110° 48.518
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Historical marker for a man who at a young age was a bandit and later in life served as a judge located inside the front entrance of the Carbon County Courthouse in Price, Utah.
Waymark Code: WMBXW8
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 07/02/2011
Views: 8
Text of marker:
"MATT WARNER
April 12, 1864 - December 21, 1935
The Bandit Who Became Judge
Matt Warner was born Willard E. Christiansen in Ephraim, Utah. He left home at the age of 14 after a fight in which he thought he killed the town bully. He took the name Matt Warner, became a cattle rustler, bank robber and rode with Butch Cassidy until going to prison on trumped up charges in 1897. He was released i 1900, with a full pardon from Governor Wells. In the following years, he became one of the best deputy sheriffs, city police officers, and justices of the peace Carbon County has ever known. As a man of the law, Warner won the love of all Carbon County, except lawyers, and stuffed shirts.
He Was Strictly A Man Of The People.
Dedicated By
E. Clampus Vitus Utah Outpost
Mountain Charlie Chapter No. 1850
July 25, 1981"