The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-31
Bloodbounis Sent For.

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s.ss Bloodhounds Sent For.
The entire police and sheriff's forces
had by this time been aroused and a
systematic search of the locality was
instituted. Officers Chambers and Nc
Intyre arrested two men walking north
out of town. but the men afterwards
proved an alibi-they being laborers
from Missouri going out to the rail-
road work.
Excitement for the time was at fever
heat, as a report had gained currency
that Officer Fairs wound was likely
to prove fatal. A telephone message
was sent to Warden Dow, asking for
the bloodhounds to be sent from the
state peniteniary, and these came up
on the 1915 train, in charge of Guard
Davis Baker and Davis, with the
dogs, rode out in one quincy, other Of
ficers and a lot of spectators follow
ing in all manner of vehicles Probab bly,
$50 spectators accompanied the officers
and newspaper men.
The hounds were put on the trail at
the bridge. but owing to the confusion
from the tramp of many other feet, the
definite scent was not given them till
some distance north, where il was
found the thugs had left the track,
crossing a potato field, leaving a we'll
marked trail. Here the hounds became
much excited. and with noses to the
ground followed in full cry across the
| field They went 20 lower Seventeenth
street thence across this street over a
! ditch and across another field mot
ley crowd of spectators followed, de-
stroving as ii proved the only positive
trail left by the fugitives from which
the dogs could take the scent when
lost. as it finally was at the bank of a
willow -fringed slough, into which they
plunged and nosed about for some time.
The officers brought the dogs back to
! the sheriff's office. as the CANNES had
become confused and could not again
/ take up the scent The officers also
hoped to escape the crowd which ham
/ pered them in the search, and later in
] the afternoon quietly took the dogs out
/ again. but they could not locate the
} trail.
Suspect Arrested in Bingham.
/ During the day almost every foot OF
! ground for couple of miles around the
4 scene of shooting was gone over py
/ posses composed of officers and ciu-
Gems. The second attempt with the
! hloodhounds resulted in complete fail
ure as the dogs could not even get z
i start on the scent.
| late this evening Sheriff Gordon tel
/ ephoned from Brigham City that ne
4 had succeeded in arresting desperate
| character who was put of the tram
/ which left Ogden at 12:25 a. m, ana Il
| is believed that this man was one o.
| the assistants in the hold-up of Officer
! Herman. and that he boarded the pas
| senrer train while his three compan-
| ions were engaged in robbing the De
tective. This man cannot be one whC
participated in the shooting of Othcei
! Farr as this occurred later in th'
morning The fellow was discovered
| on the train at Brigham City by th'
| brakeman. who attempted to put hin
off but the fellow resisted and pulled
| a gun. which he showed at the brake
| mans abdomen. In struggle ina
ensued the brakeman got the gun anS
pushed the hold-up off the car INT
hoId-up's hat was also left behind
Tota, in the DAY Sheriff Gordon fol
lowed the man and caught him, findint
him with a sprained ankle. a cut owe
| the eve and minus a hat Officer ker
nan will go to Brigham City tomorrow
| morning TO make an effort at identity
ing the prisoner
Bloodhounds Sent Home.
The blcodhounds were returned to tn
penitentiary by Guard Davis at SIS 7
m. chief of Police Browning and Sher
| if I,ayne made a trip west along tn
| Southern Pacific construction work Z
the lake but found no clue. and tn
| search closed late tonight WITH abso
lutely no knowledge gained of tn
movements of the robbers, excepting
the fact that they went a haH-nlil
north of the place where Farr wa
shot. Twelve suspects have been ar
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