The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27
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Before his first arrival in Chicago
Barron had spent some little time in
Pittsburg and there had met the wife
of William Il. Buck, a salOOnkeeper.
The woman, fascinated by his dashing
style and glib talk, deserted her nus
band and came with him to Chicago,
where her aged mother, a Mrs. Kelly,
lived. Barron and the woman took up
| their residence at II Ann street under
the name OF Burton. knowing in
general way that Barron was man
who would undoubtedly make his marx
in his chosen profession, L deemed II
advisable to lay wires by which L
might keep I'm touch with his move
| ments, and. with that end in view, 1
formed the acquaintance of Mrs. KEEL
! ~, with whose daughter Barron was
living. She knew my reasons FOR want
ing tC keep track of Barron. and, as
she felt any way but friendly toward
him on account of his having induced
her daughter to leave her husband, she
| willingly but secretly gave me such
information concerning Barron's move
ments as came to her through her
| daughter.
In the process of organizing his COM
! bination of thieves Barron had Included
in the individual groups a clique Of
| hotel thieves. From the information
I that had leaked out at John Ewing 3
/ in the hearing of his wife l was posi-
| tive that White and Horton were two
Barron as their superior officer. Just
how far Barron aided them in their
actual operations I did not know, but
| considered it of Importance to identity
| the remaining suspicious Signature cut
l from the hotel registers. i found some
I trouble in securing a specimen OF Bar
/ ron's handwriting, but, once in my pos
| session. IL was found to have been writ
J ten by the men that placed the there
! toiUre unidentified signature on the no.
| Jes register.
This was satisfactory progress, but
| along general lines only. 1 was salts
/ fled that Barron's hotel thieves had
/ robbed Isaac Mills and turned the jew
! elry over TO him for sale. 1t was also
| probable that the proprietor of the
| Clark street jewelry house was run
ming a fence" and, under his cloak OF
responsibility, had furnished. Horton,
| White and Barron with information
| concerning the contents of Mills trunk
and its surroundings, information
which he secured during his inspection
/ of Mills samples.
J My investigation up to this point had
l progressed by inches and was almost
/ at a standstiH when chance smiled on
| me. There was in existence then-and
I i suppose is at the present time-an
! organization OF jewelers. for the mutual
| protection of themselves. Facilities for
| protecting trunks and sample cases on
| the road were not as complete then as
they are now and the organization un-
! dertook to supply this lack. adding,
! believe, am insurance feature against
4 loss. William A. Giles was the Chicago
/ representative of the association and
| he and had talked the Tremontt House
| robbery over with each other and with
/ Mills. Mr.. Giles had taken keen in
| tefest in the case, although dependent
! on the police for the recovery of the
jewelry and the capture OF the rGb-
| berS.
About the time had thoroughly sat
isfied myself that the job had been don,
by Barron's crowd there arrived II
( Chicago a travelling salesman for q
| Boston jcweiry firm named PhiIo W