The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-17

| DEVELOPMENTS yesterday in the Union
Pacific hoidup case were such as give
promise of another sensation as big as
the first announcement that lone
highwayman mad held up the train and
got away with a big amount OF booty.
They were nothing less than unnistak-
able indications that the postoftice au-
thorities and railroad and express
officials have come TO the conclusion
that the robber was none other than
railroad man, and that although ne
was alone in the operation he was not
alone by a long way in the plot, put
while this seems to be undoubtedly
true. it would seem also to be tact
that they no longer entertain the idea
that the robbers confederate or con-
federates were waiting at another point
to assist in the robbery, and were only
prevented from doing so by the chleI
conspirator losing his bearings and al
lowing the train to run past the aD-
pointed place.
On the contrary, all the officials APP
pear to have come to the conclusion
that the robber had confederates on the
train, who came right into Ogden with
the trainmen, and that they have made
up their minds that if they catch the
criminal or criminals it will be in their
immediate midst.
Whether or not such thoughts are
seriously engaging the minds of the
officials, time alone will develop to
certainty, for none of them could be
induced to make q statement or admit
anything yesterday, although none OF
them denied that they had had such
suspicious. There are several very good
reasons for this belief, and that the
search viii henceforth be confined TO
! detective work in thickly settled re-
gions, and VIII not extend beyond the
limits of certain cities.
One fact which points to such q con-
clusion is that all the officers who were
! detailed to scour the country, have been
called in, and that at the instance of
the interested parties. 1t is known that
Superintendent Joe Young, of the Union
Pacific, Issued orders yesterday for the
officers to discontinue the search, and
the last of the various posses returned
to their homes last evening. The deputy
sheriffs and deputy United States mar
shals returned during the day. and
Chief Pratt's posse, composed of Adam
Paul. Joe Raleigh, Boman Cannon and
Moroni Gillespie; came in at Z o'clock
last evening.
The officers declined to make any
statement for publication concerning
what is now being done. A remark
made by one officer who was engaged
in the search, sounded very significant
as substantiating the belief that the
officials interested entertain the same
opinion as that which every officer
brought back with him. When asked
if there were any officers still at work
in the search, he replied: Not in the
field, but you bet they're at work at
Ogden"
One other strong evidence that the
officials are turning their attention in
the direction herein indicated, is fur
| nished by an incident that transpired
at Uintah the day following the hold
up, when the postal and express Of
fcials were making their investigation.
One of the officers who had been sent
out from here had reached the scene
in advance of the officials and after
looking over the ground and talking
with the trainmen, he was not long in
forming his conclusions. When Super
intendent Gentsch arrived and made
his investigation, the officer said to
him that they had better go back to
Ogden and look for the robber.
Mr.. Gentsch did not reply, but gave
the officer a very significant wink and
walked away, shaking his head.
Another significant thing is the fact
that the postal, express and railroad
officials were all congregated at Ogden
yesterday.
The officers who went from mere all
formed the same opinion as they
looked over the ground, and though
| they engaged in the search with all
sincerity, it was primarily because they
were under orders and because there
was a possibility they were wrong.
Chief Pratt's posse covered the ter
ritory very thoroughly and came back
convinced that the robDer rode into
Ogden on the .rain he held up. This
was shown by the statement one of
them made in voicing the sentiments
of the whole party. I'VE covered the
entire region" said he land if that
robber didn't go into Ogden on the
train he went up in a balloon"
The posse left here early Tuesday
morning and divided at Pennington.
officers Raleigh and Gillespie took
horses there and Adam Paul and Bo-
man Cannon secured mounts at Ogden.
They met at Uintah and from there
diverged in different directions, cover
ing the whole territory very thor
oughly. They halted every man they
saw whose appearance gave them the
slightest excuse for doing so, but found
not the least thing suspicious. The
three men concerning whom Adam
Paul telegraphed to Chief Pratt, they
oyerhauled and went through and they
had half dozen similar experiences.
them pry into his secrets, and that
was a man carrying a grip and walk
ing along the road toward Kaysville.
He did not arouse their suspicion suf-
fciently to prompt them to overtake
him, but they did telephone in to have
him intercepted.