The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-18
TWO MORE MEN IMPLICATED.
Ed Davenport and Jim Delaney Will
BE Brought Here With Strange.

It developed yesterday that the au
ttCrltles not only expect TO fasten the
CRIME with Which King is charged upon
Strange, but that they also expect to
lmplcate TWO other men who are now
serving terms in the Canon City
prison. These two men are known
there by the names of Ed Davenport
and Jim Delaney.
Attorney Wanless. for King, claims
that there were three men associated
with Lynch in the Sheep Ranch mold
up, and he believes that Strange, De-
larey and Davenport are the men. He
was leu 10 this belief by a cOnsulta-
ton with Deputy Warden J. c. Burg
hart of Canon City. who was in this
city Sunday. The men. he says, are of
the same description as the hOld-ups,
as described by the eye witnesses of
the affair in the gambling house, and
ne claims that he can produce evidence
10 connect the men with the affair
when the time comes He has laid the
matter before Chief Hilton and the
latter is making preparations TO go to
canon City and make a thorough in
vestigatiOn of the matter.
Strange, It is claimed by Wanless, is
the man who planned the hold-up and
the man who shot Colonel Prowse-
Delaney, he says, has served six years
with Lynch in another prison for bur
Slary and he knows that they have
been mixed up in affairs of the kind
together before Davenport he is not
50 sure of, but he believes that he is
the fourth man of the quartette.
nave been trying to locate this
man Strange for months" said Wan
less but [ was unable to do it be-
cause l only had his first name. John
| learned of he
nection with Lynch in this way: After
Lynch had been sentenced to death a
go-between came TO me and told me
To tell Lynch that John was now in
prison, but that as soon as he got out
OF that trouble he would assist him in
getting out of the scrape he was in. I
could not learn what this prisoner
name was or where he was confined
but | wrote to the principal prisons in
this part Of the country and finally
succeeded in locating Strange and De
laney IN the Colorado prison. but. of
course, l had no evidence To show that
they were connected with the hold-up
here.
Now, though. in the light of this
confession, there is no doubt that
Strange is the man who fired the shot
that killed Colonel Prowse. All the
evidence in the case showed that
Lynch held his pistol towards Colonel
ProWse's head, and when he fell, ac-
cording to the testimony introduced
he fell backwards on his right side
swinging his pistol outward. so that if
he had fired as he fell his bullet would
have gone in the wall where a bullet
was afterwards picked out. [ have
always maintained that that bullet was
a 40, but it was gotten by some gam
bier and could never be produced in
eouEs Strange in his confession saws
that he saw Colonel Prowse plugging
al Lynch on the floor, and shot him to
protect Lynch.
"Of course. l know that some claim
that the details of the affair as pre-
sented in Strange's confession are not
IN conformity with the actual occur
renees at the gambling house. but
Chief Hilton and / have read the con-
fession carefully and find that every
point agrees exactly.
That he was there at the time of
the hold-up and took part in il is
proven conclusively by a remark he
quotes which was made by a gambler
as the hold-ups entered the gambling
house, and which has never been made
known 10 anyone but the defense. He
also mentions the place where the guns
were purchased. and he could not do
that unless he knew. because that has
never been developed before. There is
not shadow of a doubt as to his
being the right man, and he will be
brought back here to face Justice"