The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-27

conveyed the information that the
Utah Loan & Trust company bank of
Ogden had been robbed of about $4,000,
and that an arrest was likely to be
made today in the east. This was the
first heard of the affair here, and with
that information further details were
CLEANED.
The robbery occurred on or about
February last. The standing of the
bank has been in no wise Injured. as
the amount was made good by officers
of the institution, and the funds were
all intact at the last meeting of the
auditing committee two or three weeks
ago.
The money taken was bag contain
ing $1,000 in gold and about $1,000 in sill
YER The matter has been kept quiet IN
the hope of apprehending the thieves
and of recovering the money.
The officers are of the opinion that
the job was done by either one or TWO
Young men who left Ogden about four
days after the robbery. They are Leon
Graves and Clarence Barton
Aside from the fact that they left
Ogden about this time and seemed 10
leave secretly, the circumstances tenn
ing to throw suspicion on them are
that Graves, at least, has seemed 10
suddenly acquire great ueai ~
money; furthermore, Graves was III
trouble about the beginning of the year
tbrongh raising money on worthless
checks, representing something over
500. His father made most OF the
amount good, and since the young
mans departure it is said he has sent
his father $500 to reimburse him, with
the exclamation that he had had
streak of luck. He is known TO nave
written TO a friend in ogden, Saying
he had recently lost $l,O0O al caros. -
still more important circumstance Is
that Chief Davenport is said TO nave
located $4,000 in a bank OF an Iowa
town, deposited in Graves name.
AS to Barton, there seems 10 De
little ground for suspicion except tnat
he left about the same time GraNes
did. presumably with him, ana mas
brother who is teller in the Utan Loan
and Trust bank He might thus nave
erained a knowledge that would have
enabled him to abstract the money
No breath of suspicion attaches to Z.
II. Barton, the teller referred TO. but II
is thought he might have been care
less and allowed the brother TO be in
the bank when the money could De
located. .als~
Young Barton's relatives do pot
know where he has gone he Is an
electrician by trade and they think
he has gone to New York in search of
work.
After the robbery was discovered
the utmost secrecy was maintained,
but suspicion then fell on Bert Trader,
a young man who had been WORKING
in the engine room of the bank build
ing. He told several fairly stories
about wealth that he had concealed in
various parts of the country and
seemed to aspire to be a Jesse James
He was arrested at Ogden ostensiblY
on the charge of stealing paper
weight. but really to detain him I'M
til a search could be made for the
money he was supposed to have
stolen from the bank. He was re-
Gently released.
Chief Davenport has been absent
from the junction city on the case Tor
three or four weeks, trying to locate
the boys, with the success indicated
above.
The latest report is that the sheriff
has gone on to New York TO locate the
boys and the balance of the money
Most of the directors of the tank
were seen last night by The Herald
Ogden correspondent and deemed all
were perhaps sincere, because the cash
was returned to the banks funds and
there was no real shortage.
c. Fl. Barton was seen at Ogden AT an
early hour this morning and said he did
not believe his brother was in any way
connected with the affair. although ne
was worried over the way he left town
He has been trying for five or six weeks
to f.d his brother, but his letters nave
all been returned. He did not know
robbery had been committed. but said
that at about that time the bank officials
changed his duties entirely. He did not
know the reason for it. He knew enough
of the banks affairs to be sure that the
money was all intact.
The money must have been taken from
the vault in the day time. as no violence
was done to the lock and there was no
means for any outsider TO get INTO the
hank. much less the vault. unless ne
simply slipped in and distracted the
money -, ,
Ogden and Salt Lake capitalists. A ii.
Cannon was one of the heaviest owners
at the time of his death. Joseph A west
is the cashier and among the directors
are c. F. Middleton, T. j. Stevens, n. u
Flygare and H H. RolapD.