Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-10
CLEARING UP
THE MYSTERY
--
SeIby SmeIter May Be No Secret
By Tonight
SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED.
Winters, Alias "Huckr Taylor, sup.
posed TO Have Told where
the Treasure H.
SAID 70 HAVE CONFESSED.

San Francisco, Aug lO.-rhe mystery
of the great bullion robbery at the Sell
by smelling works viii probably be en-
tirely cleared up before night and the
missing gold may all be recovered 1t
is believed that John Winters, the sus-
pect now in custody, has made a fun
confession and has declared that the
treasure Is lying in the shallow water
OF Carquinez straights. The confession
is said to have been made In the office
of Captain Of Detectives Seymour af-
ter the prisoner had been examined at
great length by ex-Chef of Police Lees
and superintendent sayers Of the Pin
kerton agency. The officials then char
tered tug and taking Winters with
them went up the bay TO the Smelling
works. Here several detectives We're
taken on board and the tug proceeded
60 Crockett where IL was proposed TO
spend the night, Here trouble occurred
between the San Francisco officers and
Sheriff Veale Of Contracosta county. in
which the robbery was committed The
sheriff demanded the custody Of the
prisoner, and this being refused M
cured search warrant a truce was
arranged, however, and early this
morning the entire party boarded the
tug and started for Martinez, the coun-
ty seat Winters was handcuffed and
guarded with the utmost vigilance.
Sheriff Veale stated that he understood
that a complete confession had been
made, and Superintendent Won Der
Ropp said:
Thank God our anxiety Is over; we
will soon have the gold back"
No more definite statements have
been made, but a gasoline launch has
been sent to Crockett and the tug is
provided with graphing apparatus
which II Is understood will be put in
use today.
The two bars of gold found on the
beach lay on the rocks just beyond the
end OF the railway tunnel farthest from
the smelling works, To prevent the
tide from washing into It's roadway the
Southern Pacific has dumped hundre u
Of tons Of boulders along the beach as
a breakwater, The bars OF gold were
found on these rocks and in the bay
just off this point Is where the gold Is
believed to have been hidden,
The water is shallow and as the bull
lion is packed In heavy leather sacks.
which would easily resist the force Of
the tide and could not be carried into
the channel the recovery OF the gold,
II is thought will not be a difficult
undertaking and especially as Winters
Is expected to point out its exact To-
cation ''h
1t is still mooted, question whether
the robbery was the work of one man
or Of several Many circumstances
that have come TO licht seem TO indi-
cate the completely Of some one within
the works and the manner in which the
opening was drilled In the floor OF the
safe is thought 10 show such q knowl-
edge Of its interior arrangement as
could not have been possessed by Win
tiers.
Henry Windall proprietor OF the
boarding house near the Selby works
Is confident that that there were pickets
at both ends OF the railroad tunnel.
one night about two weeks ago he was
returning from Crockett I'm company
with his wife, and as they approached
the railway tunnel two pistol shots
were fired He also says he has heard
a whistle In the night; that his boarders
have also spoken of hearing shots and
whistles