The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-22
Defaulting Silver Club Porter
Now Locked Up.
NABBED AT WELLS. NEV.
CLAIMS HE ONLY GOT AWAY
WITH S110.
Just Is Cents Found in His Posses
sion When He Fell Into the
Clutches of the Law-Story of
How Chief Hilton Effected His
Capture.

Charles Cameron, the porter Who
robbed the Silver club of more than
$500 last Thursday, has been found and
arrested. He was captured by Coi1sta-
bic Moore at Wells, New, yesterday af-
ternoon. Whether or not he will be
brought back is not known
Cameron made a mistake and that is
the cause of his capture. he entrusted
a tramp with a note signed TisdaIe.
and the fellow brought it direct to the
police station, instead of taking it TO
Cameron's sister-in- law, to whom it
was addressed.
But no money was found on him. He
had only Is cents in his pocket when
Constable Moore searched him. How
ever. his letter tells the story. The
money was left here, 1t, or a part Of it,
is evidently in the possession of the
sister-in-law, Mrs. Isovelace He asked
in the note that $40 be sent to him at
Wells. She said to Detective Sheets
and Powers and Welch, pTODrietors of
the gambling house. that he had left
her and his wife without dollar.
Left Saturday Morning
1t is now known that Cameron left
here Saturday morning at about 3
in the Metropolitan House, on Third
South and West Temple, till that time
He started to walk out of town and
probably did not kuOW\in what direc-
ton he was going. or at least where
he would stop.
When between Pennington and
Kaysville, on Saturday morning, he
met tramp to whom he gave the note.
Chief Hilton received it on Sunday af-
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express agent at Wells. There was
thus nothing TO do but to wait till he
arrived and asked for the express or
der
The following is a special dispatch re-
ceived by The Herald last night telling
of the capture:
Wells, New, May 21.-George Came
ron. who absconded with the funds of
the Silver Club gambling house in Salt
Lake Friday, was arrested in Wells by
Constable Moore this afternoon, and is
now confined in the Wells cooler until
further instructions are received from
the Salt Lake officers.
This morning the constable received
word that Cameron was headed this
way and to arrest him. About o'clock
this afternoon q man answering the
description of Cameron came to the ex-
press office and asked if $50 had been
sent to George Cameron from Salt
Lake
Agent Stanton recognized him as the
suspect and had him Swallowed while
he notified the constable. Constable
Moore came right over and placed
Cameron under arrest. He offered no
resistance.
When searched he had but ID cents
on him. He said that he was the man
wanted, but that he had taken only
$40, and that of this $50 were due him
as wages. He said that he had spent
the balance of the money or left it
with his wife.
He said that the Silver club was run
on the sure-thing plan and that it was
about to close 10.
He will not return without extradi-
ton papers and he does not think that
Powers or WEIGH will prosecute the
case against him. He said that he be-
ieved the tramp to whom he gave the
letter signed Tisdale and addressed to
his sister-in-law gave him away"
Statements Not Credited
The statement of Cameron that he
took only $40 is not given any Gre
dence at the police station.
well, hardly expected a man whom
I had taken care of for nine years to
charge me with running a brace bank"
said Black Jack Powers last night,
when he was shown the dispatch.
Cameron is q thief and a liar and he
is, I suppose, making this talk to keep
from being prosecuted. Maybe he
thinks that by making this charge he
will get out OF his trouble.
THE fact that he said he took only
$40 shows that Be- is trying to make
the offense as small as possible. An
other thing. the house did not owe him
a cent. In fact, he was in debt four or
five dollars for money that had ad-
vanced beyond his wages