The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-23
srRANGz's VEST MISSING.
Kings Friends Declare That Import
ant Evidence Has Been Stolen.

Kings Friends Declare That Import
ant Evidence Has Been Stolen.
A stir was created in official circles
Yesterday when it was learned
tnat the grip and vest found in
James Lynch's room, and which is
mentioned in MaCe's AFFIDAVIT as be-
Logging To the suit Worn by the convict
John Strange. were mySteriOuSly miss
ing from the police station. This vest
is considered by those interested in the
freeing Of King as ole of the strongest
proofs of the truth of Mace's affidavit,
and its disappearance is looked upon
by them as the result of some scheme
20 thwart the plans of the defense. At
torney Wanless declares that some Of
the officers connected with the prOsecu-
tion Of King know where the vest is,
and IL is said that the affair may re-
suit in litigation, or possibly charges
against some person or persons.
The grip and vest have been miss
ing for several DAYS. but the authOri-
ties did not, FOR some reasons of their
own, make it public until yesterday.
ii will be remembered that after Lynch
was arrested a small grip, containing
SOME burglar tools a flask of powder
end d vest. were found by Detective
Sheets in the room said to have been
occupied by Lynch and one of his part
ners the night before the hold-up.
In Hilton's Custody.
Not much importance was attached
to the find at that time but il was
presented in court at the various
trials, and since that time the things
have been in the custody Of Chief Hill
ton at the police station. \ few days
ago when Mace's affidavit appeared,
stating that the vest found in Lynch's
h.
john Strange the day he was in Ogden.
and also when he was. arrested ana
landed in the Colorado prison, it wa1
clear that if the vest matched the suit
worn by Strange that il would be
strong evidence against him, and cor
rObOrative of Mace'S affidavit. Accord
ingly, vhen Chief Hilton, Attorney
Wanless and Attorney GarWOOd held
consultation with Governor Wells, the
statement was made to the latter that
this vest was then in the possession
of the police.
When Chief Hilton returned to his
Office and looked Ger the vest and grip
they were missing. How or when they
We're taken no one knows, or at least
no one has explained as yet y thor
ough search was made for the missing
articles but as yet they have not been
located.
Attorney Wan;ess stated yesterday
that he had reason to believe that some
of the officers connected with the prose-
cutiOn of King knew where the vest
was. He declared that Detective
Sheets sd~dted to him that he knew
where the grip and vest was.
Demand en- Prosecution.
Il went to the prosecution yester-
day" said Mr. Wanless, and de-
L. g
they thought MaCes affidavit was a
scheme of crooks TO save one of their
number. and offered TO compare it with
the trousers which Strange wore. and
are now in the possession of the Canon
City authorities. but they viii not pro-
dGee the vest. IT looks to me as
though they We're keeping bad faith,
and that there is a scheme to knock a
hole in Mace's affidavit by getting the
vest away.
"Of course. if the vest should be pro-
duced and it did not match the trousers
worn by Strange. that would show that
Mace's affidavit was wrong, but we
know that il matches, because we have
other witnesses who saw the vest and
they know that il is the same as the
trousers. ~ there is any attempt 10
substitute another vest in its place to
throw discredit upon the affidavit of
Mace we viii know if. because we have
those who can identify the right vest,
ard they viii do ="
1t was given out at first that the vest
was still in the possession of the pO-
lice. 1t is said because the officers
Were then looking for It. and hoped to
be able TO locate il by having il
thought that they had it.
Detective Sheets. when informed of
the matter, was decidedly wrathy, and
declared that he had never seen any
strip Of vest that he knew came from
Lynchs room, and denied emphaticaly
that he knew anything about the
whereabouts of the articles mentioned
by Wanlcss.
Sheets is Indignant.
Z know" said Sheets, that there
was a grip with some burglar tools and
some clothing in il. found in a room
after the arrest of Lynch. but from
what I can learn from the defense IL
self, the room from which this grip
was taken is not the one occupied by
Lynch. Those tools and things are.
now IN the possession of the police, and
as for me or any of the prosecution
knowing anything about the where
ahouts of the Things that they are
ma king hoWl about now. il is untrue
They went TO the governor and told
MN lldL tlet Ddu tflS vest and griD
i'm their possession. but it is evident
that they didn't. and row they are
bowling that we got them out of the
way. They declared that they had
them, now let them prove that they
had. They. come around now and want
me to help them out, but it Will be a
cold day in July when I GO to them
they viii have TO come to me-
Mr.. Wanless stated yesterday that he
was lot sure that-he would file a
motion Monday for q new trial. or wait
until later date, as he had some other
points he wanted &c look up before
making the motion In regard to the
objection raised TO the filing OF a new
motion on the grounds that the dis
trict court did not have jurisdiction.
Mr. Wanless stated that there was
some doubt from purely legal stand
point as TO whether the court did nave
power in the case. but that he thought
the motion would be granted, anyhow
Goss & zuchwert,