The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

nocent. The men who committed that
robbery are in this city. One of them is
a smoOth-faced boy, about 20 years of
age, and the other is a heavy-set, dark
cOmpleXioned fellow, with a dark
mustache. They are the intimate
friends and companions of Jack Den
ton, the well-known gambler of Salt
Lake; and only a short time ago. at
Salt Lake, they entered a house one
night, going in through d rear door,
and compelled two ladies. who were
just returned from a ball, TO give UP a
large amount of diamonds"
Though not interested in this Dartic-
ular robbery Mr.. Pinkerton had men,
tally jotted down the intimacy of Jack
Denton with this class of people; and
he recalled 1t now in connection with
the fact that Jack Denton was one of
the two gamblers 10 whom Pollock had
exposed his diamonds at the pawnshop
in Omaha. He at once decided 10 Sc
cure definite information in regard to
the boy who had been with Denton at
Salt Lake three years earlier Pros
eeeding Immediately to Salt Lake City,
QGd ra8lsing- cautious inquiries, he
learned that the boy in question. since
he first heard OF him had been. arrested
and convicted of robbery at OGDEN,
Utah. and sentenced to one years term
in the penitentiafK An investigation
at the penitentiary disclosed that the
young man bad given the name OF
James Burke. had served out his SEN
tence under that name. and had been
released about one month previous to
the Pollock robbery.
Denton in the meantime, had left
Salt Lake and gone to Omaha. there
to make his home. The. boy Burke
argued the detective. had naturally
followed his friend To that place An
accurate description of Burke was got
from the records of the Utah peniten-
tiary and some idea Of him and his
friends was derived from the officials
OF the prison. But where to find him
in the whole great west was a ques-
ton.
Inquiries at Salt Lake developed the
further fact that Burke had had one
intimate friend there, a man named
Marshall P. Hooker. Hooker had now.
however, left Salt Lake and removed
10 Denver. For a man Of his class
Hooker was unusually laxative and
was known by crooks throughout
the country as ''Windy' Hooker Plans
We're made for keeping a watch ON him
and on Jack Denton, i'm the hope. by
two, Of ultimately locating Burke
Through the free talk of Hooper. re-
ported back 10 the detective. II was
soon learned that Burke was known
bv the alias of kid" Mccoy and that
ne had recently been operating on the
Pacific coast in holding up' faro
banks, and had also been concerned in
two large robberies, one at Lincoln.
Neb.. and the other at Sacramento,
Cal. His whereabouts at that time
however, were unknown.
Much time had now elapsed since the
robbery. and the sensation caused by
il had died out. Jack Denton and his
friends seldom spoke of it, and Hooker
never spoke OF il unless the subject was
introduced TO him. Both men were
extremely shy of strangers. and IL was
almost impossible for a detective to
draw them ont. as anybody who intro
duced the subject of the robbery was
at once looked upon with suspicion.
For the purpose of creating further
talk upon the subject Mr.. Pinkerton
caused TO be inserted in the Omaha
papers an advertisement as follows:
Five hundred dollars viii be 0aid
for any information leading up TO the
Identification of the party who robbed
William g. Pollock on the Sioux CITY
& Pacific train Nov. T. 1892.
"WTLLIAM A. PINKERTON
Paxton House, Omaha, Neb.
This at once attracted the attention
of the local newspaper men. and when
Mr.. Pinkerton arrived in Omaha he
was interviewed by all the papers in
the city in regard to the robbery.
rTI,ts f,+erast ia the robbery was at
once renewed. Denton and the other
persons under suspicion commenced
talking of the matter again. none more
freely than Hooker.
The latter was then in Denver. Mr..
Pinkerton instructed Mr.. James Nc
Pariand. Denver superintendent of the
Pinkerton agency, TO send for him, ana
say 10 him that he had understood that
he (HoOker) could throw some light
on the robbery, and that a large sum
OF money would be paid him for the
information he gave AR Pinkerton
explained TO Mr.. MCFARLAND that
Hooker would lie TO him and endeaVor
10 get the money by giving him false
information but 10 listen patiently TO
what he had 90 say and lead him ON
as far as possible without giving him
any money. This done, Mr.. Pinkerton
further predicted that Hooker would
90 hack 10 his cronies and boast of the
way he was fooling Pinkerton and how
much money he expected TO get; ana
that eventually, through his ooasttngs'
he would prove the means of locating
And 80 preciseiS5, it fell out Some
of Hookefs tesh1panlOns We're Pinker-
ton detectives, although Hooker did