The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-04
Came Here With Orchard.

DOc6nce- he was captured tnSTe q lev
days later, after making fight, and
brought back to Salt Lake
Came Here With Orchard.
Harry Orchard came to Salt Lake
with Smith in 1899, and went to Provo,
where he worked on a prospect in the
mountains. At that time he was known
as Harry Dempsey, which name he
used during the trouble in the Occur
d'Alenes. He afterward came back to
Salt Lake, but hurried to Idaho again
after Smith was arrested. The other
members of the gang went to Colorado
| and Nevada.
About two years later another in
fernai machine was found in the west
ern part of the city 1t was built out
of a piece of stovepipe and occupies
a position on the top shelf in the right
hand corner of the cabinet. The man
ufacturer of the bomb was not appre-
hended. This machine was placed be-
side a foot path with a string at
| tached, which was stretched across the
path. A pressure on the string would
draw out a slide, which would set off
the bomb. Tt was found before its in
tended victim ran into it. This ma
chine was similarly built to the one
sent to Judge Powers. 1t worked on
a sandpaper slide resting on some
matches. The machine was evidently
| the Work Oh dH expert uN ttaIilil0i
There are several blocks of wood on
the top shelf of the cabinet which were
sawed from the resting boards placed
at the backs of En0ch Davis, Peter
| Mortensen, Frank Rose and other muir
| dereTs who were executed at the state
| prison. The rope with which Charles
| Thfede was hanged is ooiled in the
corner on the shelf.
The third shelf is devoted to the col
lection Of ctfre nd "a zprs yTbiph have
| figured in the annals of the Salt Lake
| police department. Here are to be
| found pistols of all makes, shapes and
| calibeTs. They are labeled with the
\ owners names. The gun that James
/ Shockley used when he killed Motor
man Gleason and Conductor Brighton
| is there. Frank Roses revolver with
/ which he shot his wife is also in the
/ collection There are some fifty guns
| in the cabinet which tell as tragic and
| interesting stories as the ones men
toned.
Tools of Burglars.
Razors that have ended the lives of
| both men and women who sought self
destruction for twenty years back are
exhibited on this shelf.
Yeggmen's tools are deposited in the
| second shelf. and they compose first
/ class collection The large instrument
| safe-crackeTs for locating the dial
which connects the plungers with the
| combination box. It is used when the
| make of the safe is known. For in
| stance, the dial one make of safes car
~ is two inches below line running
| from the center of the combination
| socket to the handle which turns the
| plUngers. and at d point three inches
| from the center of the combination and
| three inches and a half from the center
| of the handle which controls the plum
gers. This triangle is measured and
/ the machine set accordingly. a clasp
| fits around the combination and the
/ other end of the bar is placed on the
/ handle connected with the pIungers.
| The bar is bored full of holes. A swing
| bar is attached which holds the brace
/ and bit. It is placed over the mark
/ where the dial is located and the boring
| commences. After a hole is drilled into
/ the dial the safe is fed some soup
and exploded by means of fuse This,
| however, is an old system. The ma
| chine in the cabinet was taken from
Billy Eddy, who blew several safes
/ in Salt Lake years ago, but was after
/ ward captured by Chief Sheets as he
| jumped through q window after blow
/ ing a safe Another device similarly
/ built is in the cabinet. This was left
/ behind by "a gang of safe-crackers after
| cracking an empty SAFE
Method of Operation.
The drills in the cabinet are the relics
/ left by safe-crackeTs who infested Salt
Lake, and after turning a trick jumped
/ town. The punches, many of them
| were used in similar work. The soup
| as the yeggman calls nitToglyceTine, Is
/ fed to the safe all around the door. The
/ fuse and percussion caps are laid on
inc
| and exploded. This eXplodes the
soup fed to the safe around the door
| and breaks the lock About a year ago
the safe i'm the Miller Produce com
pany was blown in this manner The
/ safe was ballasted, or almost packed
about with two tons of -four, and the
noise of the explosion was not heard
across the street The safe-crackers
| got about $50 in money and escaped
| The collection of sandbags, slung-
| shots and lead pipes used by the "Irisf
monte" dealers contains many varie-
| ties. Some are filed with sand, other.
I with shot, a rock or a piece of lead
/ They were all gathered in Satl Lake
| from criminals run down here one
of the sandbags was welded by th'
1 sandbagger who terrOriZed Salt Lake
last December. The last night he pur
sued his occupation here he made
swing at a drunken mans head. Th'
fellow raised his arm in time to ware
off the blow. The sandbag wrapped
around his arm and he carried it of
with him. The thug escaped. Th'
sandbag was afterward turned Owe
to the police.
The long weapon on the righthanC
side of the shelf is called the 'Ror'
Bora" and was made in the city jai
by a criminal who lay in wait TO
JaiIer Sol Kimball. 1t is simply a spik
on the end of a wire attached to piect
of broomstick. 1t is supposed to hav'
been the intention OF the prisoner L
call the jailer up to the bars and the'
rap him over the head. Jailer Kim
ball was tipped off by some of tn
faithful TRUSTEES and the weapon wa
taken from the blankets i'm one of TIM
hunks.
Many Skeleton Keys.
The "jimmies" and numerous skel
eton keys i'm the cabinet were takei
from burglars who operated here. SOM
of the keys are made of strips of steel
others are made by fling down oil
keys to fit certain class of combina
ton locks. There is a gTist of saw
fashioned out of razor blades, knives
and strips Of steel.
Tbera are other fOOIS such as ninceri