The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-10-07
SUSPECT ARRESTED IN TACOMA lMPLloATrs JOHN Hide.
BRAND MS PAL, IN THE FATAL SHOOTING

The two men who held up Lou
Gonway'a saloon, ON Sixth avenue
south aud King street. two weeks
ago are In the city Jail W. n.
White ono OF the pair of suspects
arrested In Tacoma yesterday, as
told by The Star last evening. has
made a clean bruaHt OF the affair
and admitted 90 tho police that
only he and John Hildehtand. his
fellow prisoner, we're implicated In
the fatal shooting
A. will bc remembered. janice
Murphy one Of the men who were
IN the saloon on the morning Of
the huldup. was go badly wounded
that he died within few days
while Gilbert Mrlleath received ser
tuus Injuries and Conway vas shot
through the arm Both suspects
have been confronted by Conway.
and he has fully identified them
White is best known lea this city
as kid White lie ~ an eN-cou
Wet, and 80 d Hildehrand. who
even nov Is out Of Walla Walin
penitentiary on parole only. having
served but five years OF a t2ycar
sentence for WaylaylnF and fubhiuR
man named Hyde ia Tacoma July
H. 1893 His pal In that crime Is
still IN the pcultentiary.
Whites confession o. complete
and clears up seven highway rob.
berries In this city and AZ least
three IN Tacoma. enc OF which had
been pulled of since the brutal
shooting I'm Couway'H saloon white
weakened when he became ennyiucs
81 that the police knew sameth Ing
about his connection with the AZ.
fair. and gave a vivid account -
the Conway saloon holdup Ac=
rordlnE 20 his statements Hilde=
brand planned the whole affair but
the place they intended % hold up
that morning vas the Anaconda
Bar. not a great distance from Con
ways saloon White says the Ana
eonda had Just been closed up when
they reached n. and that they then
decided to hold up the Conway sas
loon.
The police have all along been
puzzled BY the statement made BY
the men held mp. Who claimed that
the bandit Who dld the talking and
fired the first shot kept himself
veil hidden IN the archway be
tween the saloon and the billiard
hall in Couway'a place. This IL ~
planned hY Whites confession. III
dehrand shot with his left hand
and Kept his riEht side hidden 20
conceal bis identity his right hand
being gone
white tells chief ~ Police De
ianeY that he Vas influenced hY
and that he It'd not
know that anyone had hem acrl-
oaaiy hurt until they read IN the
papers the next dRy the results Of
their bloody work
= vas SCARED said white 20
the chief = thought Il was All
mp With me. bat my pal told me
funt 20 keen cool and mum and no
body would be the wiser We stay
81 AZ The Romeo lodging house that
morning and the greater part ~
tho ns1t day. HiIdsbraud vent 20
Tacoma Tueaday afternoon and !
took a room AZ the Cleveland house
and remained there until Thuratay
Then I Alec went to Tacoma
we bought the masks IN a shop
tn this city and I can take you 70
the place. bat please don't LET any
body see me with the handouts
on
This was whites only plea A. he
related the story Of his crime 70
A knot 81 police officials gathered
In the chiefs office.
= can take YOU 10 the place
where We 'ditchea the 'gata' " you
will take these things off. he add
ed
pu, the chief smiled wisely A. he
the negative expression
on the faces 81 bis men.
Il told you. chief. that this wae
the first trick I ever turned. but
that was not 80. continued White
I've done time myself before. and
I have worked with Hildehrnnd IN
a number o. holdups lie shot that
conductor In the leg when he al
tempted 20 get away when hllds
brand ordered him 20 pat his hands
an In that street car holdup That
conductor f. a peach lie hhia
there we're three 81 ua. hildebrana
pulled of that stunt alone lie iold
me an about a. oh. ] ap0se I've
stuck ny head through the moose
BY telling all this stuff. but ] hope
You feliera will hang me. ] don I
want 20 spend the rest Of my NE
In that old pen. know Homeihink
about life over there"
After his first admission White
seemed 20 feel relieved and told
bia story calmly and without feel
ing as he described the brutal scene
enacted In ConWaY'a saloon.
I'VE we're both armed With bull