The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-21
DARING HOLD-UP.
HOW An IOWA MAN LOST HIS roll.
OF BILLS.
Confidence Men Take Him to the
Tower, Grab His Money and
Throw Him Down the Canyon
lie Tells His story to the Police.

r. E. Milford, young man from Ne
vada, Iowa, is sadder and wiser man
( than he was at this time yesterday morn
ing. Milford is perhaps 70 years OF age,
and is in Salt Lake city on a visit.
Yesterday he took q, "Trip TO SaItafr, and
while at that famous resort met a gentle
man who volunteered TO show him all the
/ beauties of that great batnlng reSort and
large pieces of scenery. When he had
Toasted his eyes upon all there was in
sight the pair came up town. This was
about o'clock. The stranger then vol
unteered the information that he knew
the location of the last resting place of
Brigham Young, and offered TO show II
to him. if he wished to see it. Nothing
10th the young man consented.
But instead of taking him to the grave
of the late President Young, the guide es-
corted him to the tower. Just before ar
irving they met another man who greeted
Milford with smile and word OF rec
ognition saying that he was a passenger
on the same train. OF course Milford re-
membered him. All men do this. Espe-
cially men from Iowa.
The amenities of the occasion had
scarcely been exchanged when another
man came up. He wasn't passenger on
the same train, but he knew more about
the location of the grave of Brigham
Young than any man in the world. He
consented, without being asked, to show
them the place and took the whole party
to the tower, where by some means. the
person who accompanied Milford from
the beach. disappeared. Then one of the
men found a lock. They all do that when
they take people up to see these places
of interest. And he offered to bet any
man in the party ten dollars tnat he
couldn't open it. That is another familiar
trick. But contrary to the usual custom
Milford did not want TO bet. He had
heard of such schemes. But one of the
party did. All that prevented him from
make change. He asked Milford if he
could change ten-dollar bill. Why, of
course. Then Milford produced his bank
roll amounting in all TO $13650
He never made the change. The other
fellows did that for him: One Of them
snatched it from him and started to run.
Milford is not man to allow anyone 10
get away with his money without saying
a word, or taking action, in protest, even
if he is from Iowa, and he made a fight.
And he got the worst of 1t.
The buncO men just made a monkey or
him.
They took him by the scruff of the neck
and hurled him down the bank of the
gulch and made several tracks, all with
the heel pointing in his direction.
Milford then reported his case to the po-
lice, and in few moments every man
who could be spared was hustlng this
way and that Kelley, a smooth con.
man, who has been hanging around for
some time sparring for an opening, an
swering the description of one OF the men,
was run in, but Milford. after gazing in
to his mild blue eye, said that he was not
one of the bold. bad lot So Kelley was
locked up on another charge, despite his
protest that he had a sick cousin in Los
Angeles and wanted to go there right
away.
Then the hunt was resumed.
Milford was so excited over the affair
that it is doubtful If he could identify
any of the parties if they are captured.
Sometimes his descriptions answer to the
appearance of Chapman and sometimes
some one else. He describes one man
with red whiskers parted in the middle,
and does not know whether his hair
matches or not.
He congratulates himself that the first
man was not in the party, because he
was not there when the work was DONE
Milford is not dead broke. Not he. He
has two five-dollar Williams sewed up in
the lining of his coat. 1nasmuch as the
police are watching him constantly. it is
fair to presume that this last sum is safe
for a time.