The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-17
jim" DONALDSON
UNDER ARREST
doctor" in the Gang Which
FIeeced the MCWhirterS Is
Nabbed in Hot Springs.
SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED
REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD RELA-
TIONS WITH SHEETS.

Special TO The Herald.)


Special TO The Herald) y
= Hot Springs, Ark, Oct. 10 +
James Donaldson, alias Billy y
James, wanted in Salt Lake City 4
= on the charge of swindling two y
men out of $4,000, was arrested y
here Monday night and returned y
= to Salt Lake City the same even y
= ing. Joseph Sharp. deputy y
= sheriff, followed Donaldson to this y
= city, and soon located him, and y
y in connection with local officers y
y arrested him. y
Donaldson and very attractive y
y and stylish looking woman have =
= been in the city a little over two y
E weeks, and have been occupying y
= cottage, where they were living y
= in style. The sum of SLIPS was y
y found on Donaldson. The accused y
y voluntarily agreed to return with y
= out requisition papers, and he y
y signed a formal statement 10 this =
= effect before Justice Suddeth. The r
= sheriff left with the man and y
4 woman on Monday nights train, y
y two hours after his arrest y
The fugitive is well known to =
y the officers here, and at one time y
= was manager of an upstairs gam
bling room. His principal occupa- =
y ton is said to be the manufacture y
y of roulette wheels, which can be y
y manipulated by the. operator. He =
y had ordered two of these wheels y
= shipped to him here, but wired =
y after his arrest TO have them di- y
y verted and returned to Salt Lake. y
Donaldson claims that the y
= charges against him grew out of a y
y political conspiracy, and that he y
y will be able to defeat them. He y
= alleges that he has a sister in y
y Utah who is immensely wealthy. y
y and that the judicious use of her y
+ money Will clear him.
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After a chase through almost every
state in the middle west, Jim Donald
son. wanted for helping rob Alexander
and William McWhirter, was captured
on Monday at Hot Springs, Ark. by Dep
uty Sheriff Joseph c. Sharp. Sheriff G.
Frank Emery secured the necessary
requisition papers yesterday afternoon
and viii leave today for Hot Springs,
Ark, for the prisoner.
1t is said that he has made full con-
fession to Deputy Sharp. telling among
other things about what his relations have
been with Chief Of Police George A
Sheets.
Sheriff Emery returned from an east
ern trip Sunday. where he had secured
several cities in the search for the badly
wanted bunco man. He obtained definite
trace or the missing man. however, and
notified Deputy Sheriff Sharp, who left
Salt Lake a week ago and has since been
close on the trail of the swindler
Flight From Salt Lake.
! For several days Donaldson and the
| two O BrienS covered their trail Dom
| aldSon left on Thursday afternoon Sent
/ 20, on the Rio Grande Western train He
went directly to Denver. The O'Briens
| left the same night on the@OregOn Short
| Line train and went to Ogden. They
! caught the first train over the Union Pa
! ciflc TO Cheyenne WyO. From there
! they wired to Mrs. O'Brien to follow as
/ soon as possible. Sheriff Emery cut off
/ further negotiations by OBTAINING Mrs.
/ O'Brien and May Davis just as they were
! about to leave Mrs. O'Brien's visit TO
/ Chief Sheets office on the Saturday aft
ernOOn following the robbery was tipped
| Off and resulted in the first information
/ regarding the members of the gang.
| In the meantime the o BrienS had been
! informed by telegraph of the develop
| mentS. They disappeared Just as the
! Sheriff'S deputies were about to lay hands
on them. and made flying trip to Den
time, however. Donaldson had wired to
street The woman packed up her things
and went 10 Denver about two days later
The fact that this woman had left Salt
Lake was learned. and the sheriff's force
secured information as TO her destination.
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