The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-23
MADE OUT A PLAIN CASE.
TWO DARING SAFE CRACKERS
COME TO GRIEF.
They Are the Men Who Did the Job
at the Utah Implement Com
pany's Office Sunday Morning.

John Gray and AL Swigert, the two men
W1o cracked the Utah Implement COM
PANS safe early Sunday morning, had
a hearing before Judge Wenger yester-
day. The evidence was conclusive and
both were bound over to await the action
OF the grand jury in the SLIM of $3.50 each,
in default of which they went to jail
Both men plead not guilty to the
charge. Gray did not attempt to put up
any defense, while Swigert went on the
stand and gave some testimony that
greatly injured his case, Neither was
represented by counsel.
Officer Pack was on the stand in behalf
OF the prosecution and testified to the
capture. His testimony was different from
the story already given out, in this that
Tor help when he first discovered the
burglars Mr. Pack stated that when he
saw the men at work on the safe he ut
hrst thought they might be connected
however, and ran around to the south
side of the building, blowing his whistle
as he ran. The burglars went through
a door on the north side, and that was
why the officer did not get a shot at
them until they had ran some distance
down Floral avenue.
The balance of the capture was told in
yesterday mornings Herald Officer Pack
who were in the office working with the
safe.
The capture of Swigert reflects great
credit on Officer Matt Rhoades, who has
known him for many years. AS Rhoades
was walking along First South street
shortly after Pack had captured Gray.
he met Swigart, who stopped and coolly
inquired about the safe blowing and
whether any arrests had been made. The
officer noticed that his hand was soiled
and retorted by inquiring if Swigert had
slept out doors that night. Swigert said
he had not, and again asked If any ar
rests had been made. Rhoades pretended
he knew nothing about it, and after some
further conversation, during which Swi-
CERT told the officer where ne was stop
ping, Rhoades went down to the station
and met Pack
Mr.. Pack, describe the other man to
me-, he said.
The description was given and Rhoades
said:
And so he did The two officers went
to Swigerts old boarding place and found
that he had left there three days before.
Then they went down to the Union Pa
cific yards. where Swigert used to work.
After about two hours of search he was
| found lying asleep in a fagman's shed.
Pack discovered him first and called
Rhoades, who said it was the man he had
reference to. Rhoades woke him up and
Pack at once identified him as one of the
burglars.
Without letting him know that they in
tended to arrest him, the officers took
him into Gray's presence asked him if
they had ever met before. Both denied
positively that they had, and so Swigert
was searched and locked up.
When Rhoades asked Swigert where he
had been that night, he was told that
he had spent the night at Mabel Gray
sons house of i'll fame. He left there at
, O'Clock in the morning. On the stand
III he. Of Ma1 Nso1' e
house about o'clock. He also denied
| having met Rhoades and inquired about
the burglary and arrests.
Judge Wenger took the officers story,
however, and both men will spend a few
months in the county jail, with chances
good for a term in the penitentiarY