The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-22

A petty robbery in Margett's saloon
last night, an adroit piece of sleuthing
on the part of Detectives Sheets and
Paul and a clever capture by Patrol
man De Young, resulted in the landing
Oh Twin desperadoes and thieves A. E..
and John Edgar, in Jail.
The Edgars are both old Jail birds
and within the last few months have
pied up unsavory records of crime in
SAT- Lake and neighboring towns. The
department has for some time kept
1onh Edsar, of the till tapping esca-
pdue Oh last night, under close surveil-
lance, and strangely enough the twin
outlaws were almost within a stones
throw OF each other when one of ohem
maze the daring attempt to rob the
caSh boX at Margett's saloon The CAP
lure OF this man led incidentally 10 the
capture OF his more notorious and des-
perate brother.
Patrolman De Young was standing
opposite the saloon at about 6 O'Clock.
when some one dashed ont AT fIIIi
speed and moment later he heard the
cry, Stop, Stopi" Close to the high
board fence just east of the Kimball
dock, he saw some one running at a
RAPID pace, with a man just behind in
hot pursuit De Young grasped the
situation at once, and made a sprint
after the first man. AS they reached
the corner De Young was almost on his
heels, and as the man still kept up his
furious pace, the patrolman called out,
Stop, or I'll shoot" Immediately the
fellow wheeled around, and threw his
hand back to his pistol pocket De
Young saw the danger, and a second
later had grabbed the man firmly by
the arm and prevented him from whip
ping out his gun.
On taking away the weapon. the pa
trolman found it to be a As, loaded
with six shells. Sam Rudd, bartender
at the saloon, arrived just as the pris-
oner was secured, and explained that
the man had robbed the till of S.. The
bartender's back was turned at the
time, and Edgar had reached over and
srasped the cigar box containing part
of the days receipts and then bolted
of him as he disappeared, and rushing
out had sounded the alarm that at
tracted De Young and resulted in the
robbers capture.
A hasty search of the prisoner dis
closed $3.50, which was closely clenched
in his hands. A few steps nearer the
saloon the cigar box was found, and
apparently the thief, on finding himself
pursued, had siezed as much as he
away the box.
On being taken to the station. several
two dollar bills were found in the
mans possession, and this fact furnish
ed q clue to a recent robbery at Mer-
cur, which was fully substantiated by
the subsequent capture of his brother.
AS soon as Detective Sheets saw the
prisoner, he remarked that he answered
the description of n Mercur robber, who
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all in two and one dollar bills. Sheriff
John KerTer. of Mercur, had been in
the city all day on the lookout for the
thief and also for z. a. Edgar, who had
broken Jail there at about $3.50, and
from indications, had headed towards
Salt Lake. Keller was therefore sent
for, and here is where the sequel to the
first capture began.
On arriving at headquarters. Keller
at once recognized the man. but said it
was his twin brother and not he who
had broken Jail a few hours before.
The circumstances of the affair made
the sleutfls put their heads together,
and as the proximity of the notorious
brother was suspected, Detective Sheets
and Paul went out on a still hunt, ac-
by the sheriff. The second
Edgar had been a prisoner at Mercur
for about month for shooting a Mer-
cur miner.
The officers were not long in finding
traces of their men. On South Temple
lear the 16 to l saloon they caught
sight of a gang of four among whom
we're recognized three eX-convicts. |
They at once closed in on the quar-
-ette and the first man seized was none
other than the jailbird Edgar.
When the twins were searched at the /
police station. the mystery surrounding
the robbery at Mercur was at once un-