The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-30


weeks unsuccessful endeavor on the
part of detectives and local officers.
the parties who robbed the Pacific
Express company in this city of $4,000
on Oct. Is have at last been appre-
hended and placed under arrest and
all but 5000 of the money recovered.
Frank Klein and Otis Savage, young
men of respectable parentage, living
here, are in Jail. having made a COM
| plete confession of the theft. 1t is said
| the only clue to the robbers was bar
of steel sharpened at one end and
fashioned into a hook at the other.
which was found beside the empty
treasure box on the floor of the ex-
press office on the morning of the
robbery.
| Following the suggestion of Sheriff T.
j. Driver, Detective Sam Simmons, of
Portland, and Lord, of the Surety COM
pany, of Kansas City, visited the shop
which is a barn in Kleins. yard The
walls of the room bristled with guns
of every description and the room also
/ contained an anvil and tools for doing
| light blacksmith work.
| Sheriff Driver, learning this, took the
steel tools to Salem, where Rowe, one
of the gang, is confined in the peni-
tertiary, and from him learned that it
was fashioned in this shop by members
of the Hawthorne gang from a drill
4 stolen from a Union Pacific locomotive
at the time they contemplated train
robbery. Rowe also stated that Klein.
who is by trade an expert locksmith,
possessed a key to the express of
/ Il ~,
| Driver, accompanied by Detective Sim
mons, returned to The Dalles and
caused the arrest of Klein and Savage.
They were captured without resist
ance at theif. room ana confined in sep
arate apartments at the hotel, where
District Attorney Jayne and Mr. Sim
mons attempted to gain a confession
from them. They withstood all adj
vances for a time.
Finally Klein broke down, and, Sob
bling, confessed the whole matter, tell
| ing where the money was hidden
Search was instituted for the money
and a bag containing $3.50 in gold was
| found In a cesspool under a. China
wash house, which once belonged to
the Savage estate, two bags with
an old building near the Cosmopolitan
hotel, and one bag, which had con-
tanned $1,000 in gold, from which 500
had been extracted, was discovered
buried in K1ein's back yard.
Savage at first maintained stolid ST.
lence when told of Klein's confession
saying he was innocent of the crime
but when confronted by his pal he had
nothing more to say.
Klein also confessed that they ha6
robbed the postoffice here on the night
of Sept. 6. These arrests break UP one
of the worst gangs of robbers in this
section and relieves Express Manager
Hill of the odium, which suspicion cast
upon him when the dispatches enron
eously stated he had been arrested fol
committing the deed.
| A RascaIIy Northumberland.
1t was ascertained today that Franz
Klein and Otis Savage, the youths who
robbed the Pacific Express company:
Ioffice, in this city, of over $4,000, two
weeks ago, had an accomplish in M
less a parsonage than the towns nigh
Waterman, named Gibbons. The con
Ifession made by young Klein last night
which resulted in the recovery of tht
lplunder, save 5000, was followed thi!
morning by the arrest of Gibbons. Or
the night of the robbery the expires:
Iagent unwittingly informed Gfbbon.
IIHdL lie eApeCIeu d DlS cOuSlSHlleHL u
money from Portland. Gibbons, it il
said, Immediately notified his accom-
Iplices, Klein and Savage. Late tina
night, when the express train arrived
Gibbons was on hand to help Agen
Hill carry the tfeasure-box into the de
tpot. Then Gibbons went away will
Hill, to help him stable his horse. Klein
and Savage, who had been hiding il
an alley near by, unlocked the express
1office with key that had been previ
lously secured, and unmolested carried
laway the treasure. Gibbons is also &C
lcused of having been implicated witt
Klein and Savage in the burglary o
1.-THE postoffice here in September last
According to Klein's statement, Glib
lions learned from Express Messenge
lTibbetts, who delivers the mail to tn,
lpostoffice. that the registered poucl
contained heavy packages. Gibbon.
notified the boys in this case also hoy
to act, for he had discovered an irol
shutter on the rear window of the offic
insecurity fastened. Klein says Glib
bons was the first to enter the postof
flee and the last to leave. They eount
the heavy packages contained onl,
some law books; but Klein describe
accurately a number of packages OMEN
ed and the amount obtained from eacl
one. Klein and Savage are still in Gus
Itody. Gibbons, whose parents are high
lily respected residents of this city. i
tout on $4,000 ball. and his friends MAX
it appear that Klein is trying to draw
him into the trouble on account of hi
instrumentality in bringing the othe
Justice.