The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-08
TWO CROOKS CAPTURED.
TREY MADE RAUL or WEST TEN.
PIE STREET.
Some of the stolen Property Recov-
cred and Skeleton Keys Found on
the Prisoners.

| Several members of the police de-
| partment did some clever work last
night, and as result, Thomas Hart,
who claims to be miner, and J. w.
Shoemaker, a plumber, are occupying
cells at the city jail, and the charge of
housebreaking is booked against them;
while Henry Smith is also confined at
the jail on suspicion of being connected
with the gang. The arrests We're made
| by Detective Sheets, Sergeant Wilson
and Officer Leavitte last night about
! 8 O'clock near the corner of Main and
First South streets.
| Some time yesterday afternoon, Hart
and Shoemaker went through the
rooms of Agent Gray of the Southern
Pacific, L. c. Pearse and William Her
man in the Joseph William Taylor
block on West Temple street and took
| therefrom two pair of trousers. several
suits of underwear, a pair of shoes,
| pair of gold sleeve buttons and a ham
merless Smith & Wesson revolver, all
| of which they packed into two valises
and lowered through a back window
into the alley on the east side of the
block. The men were seen around the
building during the afternoon and Shoe
maker was seen going up stairs by a
boy about the time the robbery is sup
posed to have taken place. A very
meagre description was furnished the
officers at police headquarters but it
was sufficient for Detective Sheets to
work upon and he soon had the men
spotted on West Temple street. The
officer Swallowed them for some time
and finally called Wilson and Leavitte
to his assistance and arrested them
near the clock corner. On them were
found a fine collection of skeleton and
pass keys, a blade of fine saw steel,
two hammerlesS revolvers, a pair of
sleeve buttons lost by Mr.. Pearse,
land q number of other things
|of more or less value. The
men professor the greatest ignorance
of any robbery, but the officers have
a sure thing on them with the Taylor
block job and are of the opinion that
they are the men who have been turn
ing a number of tricks within the last
week. After having made the arrests
Sheets and Wilson continued the search
for the remainder of the articles stolen
and in their searches rubbed up against
Smith, who acted in a. very suspicious
manner and was himself arrested He,
too, had a skeleton key in his posses
sion. but claimed it to be the key to
room he had in Chicago. Smith was in
durance last week on the charge of
vagrancy. He is habitue of Fitzger-
AIDS resort
Among the things found on the per-
sons of Hart and Shoemaker were a
number of hotel pass keys and they
at once gave Detective Rhodes cue
and. hurrying down to the Brooks Ar
cade on State street, he found that the
keys were from that building and had
been taken Tuesday night, at the same
time that several rooms in the build
ing were robbed. Roomers in the Ar
cade lost clothing, collection of souve-
mir spoons and pass keys. Rhodes is
also on another trail and is confident
he viii fasten another robbery upon
the two men. Some interesting devel-
opments will probably. take place with
in the next twenty-follr hours.
Judging from papers found on Shoe
maker it is evident the men have just
come from the northwest and may have
had acquaintanceship with the peni
tentiaries there.