The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-05
POLICE UNABLE
TO GET A CLUE
Murderers of Japanese Banker
at San Francisco Made Good
Their Escape.

San Francisco Oct 4-The police are
working a new theory that may lead
to the arrest of the two thugs who looted
the Golden Gate bank. fatally wounded
S Murakata, the president and struck
down A Sasaki, the cashier, who now
hovers between life and death at the
Central emergency hospital.
No definite clue has been obtained as
to the IDENTIFY of the \murderers and
robbers. but the police are working on
the idea that the criminals may have
been depositors in the robbed institution.
The police are holding up the names
of all white depositors of the bank. They
believe the daring thugs may have de-
posted money in the bank to learn all
the business habits of the bank employees
Thin Thread to Follow.
1t is unusual for white men to deposit
money in a Japanese bank in San Fran
cisco and the detectives are now busy
investigating the white depOsitors of the
institution. II the robbers did deposit
money there il was probably done under
fictitious names. 1t will be thin thread
to follow up. but ii may give the police
something tangible to work on.
BY the bedside of A. Sasaki. the living
victim OF the murderous ASA Atlantis de
tectives and anxious countrymen are
waiting. listening with straining ears to
every syllable that falls from the lips
of the little brown man who has already
accused two Americans of the crime.
Saw Men Driving Furiously.
new witness. who may be able to
identify the two men who murdered the
vice president and has fatally wounded
the paying teller of the bank has been
found in the person of Louis Rothschild.
sJandiT al the entrance of Golden Gate
Park yesterday between the hours of Il
and ! when he observed two men driving
past at a high rate of speed. One OF the
men carried a canvass bag which seemed
TO contain some heavy weight He over
heard one of the parties in the buggy
say to the other How did you get it,
and the mar with the bag replied:
Patty in gold and partly in bank notes.
but mostly in gold.
Mr.. Rothschild at that time had not
heard of the robbery of the bank and.
therefore attached but little importa nee
TO what he had heard and seen Later.
however. when he had read the account of
the crime he decided that the TWO men
must have been the robbers. and will
furnish the police with a description of
them.
Suspect Arrested.
Detectives Ed Gibson and Charles Tay-
Tor this afternoon arrested a suspect
whom thep are confident is one of the
two robbers who yesterday looted the
Japa nese bank They are now sweating
their prisoner md have strong, hopes Of
capturing his accomplice before nightfall.
The man, whose name is temporarily
withheld for obvious reasons was taken
into custody while lettering in the neigh
borhood OF a Japanese bank on Van Ness
avenue When the detectives placed their
hands upon his shoulder he refused to
make any statement or explanation but
the sleuths are confident that they can
break his-reticense. In the privacy of
headquarters all the power of the police
departmen is being brought to bear to
force a confession from the suspected
murderer and thug
- Turned Him Loose
After closely questioning the man ar
rested this afternoon by Detectives Tay-
lor and Gibson On the suspicion that he
might have been one; OF the men who
struck down the Japanese bankers, the
police turned him free. having come 10
the conclusion that he had nothing TO do
with the case.