The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-08
MAN WHO HELD UP ARLINGTON
GAMBLING HALL.
Was Arrested In Missouri and Is
Cousin of the Man Who Murdered
His Mother and Sister.

The man who held up the proprietor
of the Arlington saloon in Ogden, has
been arrested. His name is Walter
Farley, and one of his aliases is Err
nest Dowd.
Yesterday Sheriff Belnap went to Salt
Lake and called at the executive of
fees to obtain requisition papers for
Walter Foley, alias Ernest Dowd, who
is charged with highway Iobovly and
who is now in Jail at Liberty, Mo.
There seems no ooubt about holey
being this most daring robber and the
capture is as pretty piece OF Work
as is often seen. The story of the rob
berry, as stated in The Herald at the
time, showed it to have been
one of the most cool and daring ever
performed in Utah. On the night OF
Dec IS, a little before midnight. the
man entered the club room of the Ar
linston saloon on IWents -nlth sf I.
The play for the day, which was Sat
urday, was about over and the money
was sacked up in two bags which were
on the table before one of the propr1-
etors. J. H. Hammer The rob5er grab
bed the two money bags and thrust
a pistol under Hammers nose, calmly
advising that gentleman to be quiet.
He then backed out of the door IN fuii
view of the dozen or more people in
the room. He ran down the stairs and
out onto the street. He made a bee line
for the tenderloin district and although
a number Of men from the club rooms
gave chase he was soon lost TO view. In
his fight he dropped his hat, y HIGH
was taken possession of by the ogden
police and was instrumental in furnish
ing a clue to the mans identity. There
was about $211 in the bags secured by
the robber.
The man was recognized as one who
had been about the place all day shoot
ing craps and losing considerable
money. officers at once began on the
case and since that time the mans
record has come out piecemeal and in
a fragmentary way officers and news
papers have got the story of hi fiji n.
He went from Ogden to Pennington
afoot. where he secured another hat
and an overcoat. AT Pennington it was
learned he had spent most of the au-
tumn in Morgan and in the expecta-
ton that he would go back there the
officers went there Sunday. Foley did
not show up, but it was learned that
he had been there and had claimed
to the sheriff of that county that he
was private detective and had
letter testifying as to his ability, signed
by some Missouri sheriff.
In a conversation Sheriff Belnap had
some months ago the man had referred
to his relatives in Missouri and had
claimed to be a cousin to the Foley on
trial at Liberty, Mo. for numbering his
sister. Belnap remembered this and
went on the theory that the man would
try to get back to Missouri.
The Weber County sheriffs officers
have never relaxed their search and
some time ago it was ascertained by
them that the man had bought q ticket
in Salt Lake for Denver This was
Sunday night after the robbery on Sat
urday. The man had been spending the
Arlington silver pretty freely in Salt
Lake during the day.
Sheriff Belnap then enlisted the aid
of the Missouri officers and wrote to the
principal cities to the south and east.
He and Ballantyne have been in con-
slant communication with the Offices
of the sheriff and marshal at hide
pendence and Liberty. Foley had a
mother living four miles from Liberty
and this house was Swallowed by the
Missouri officers.
Belnap has been kept advised of their
and yesterday the city
marshal of Liberty wired that the man
was under arrest.
Belnap secured requisition from the
governor and left last night at s
o'clock over the Rio Grande Western
for Liberty, Mo-, to bring back Walter
Foley. alias Ernest Dowd.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ACCOUNT.
Liberty, Mo-, Jan. 7.-Walter Foley,
aged % years, third cousin of w. A.
Foley recently sentenced to hang for
his mother and sister, was
arrested at his mothers home near here
today, charged with holding up a gam
bling hall at Ogden, Utah, Dec. Is,
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