The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-08
Daynes Safe-Cracker
Have Been Caught 4
Too Much Zeal
FINE TRAP LAID BY
SHANNON TO q
"Hop-Head" Arrested /
Says He Is Son-in.
Judge" Hit

Over-zealousness on the,
Reno, Ney., policeman a 20
prevented the capture Of q
roe, an cx'convict who II
have been implicated in
jewelry robbery in Salt
man was almost in the I
Detective r. l.. Shannon.
liceman got in too big al
caused Monroe to fly. n
Monroe's nmc was fu
police by the pickpockets y
rested in Denver on a CHI
ceiying some Of the stol,
and 1t was learned that [.
Reno, where he was req.
under the name Of Robert
was sent to Reno post-has
of Police Sheets, and 500
rangements with the posto
ties there that he would wi
when he called for his MI
him. 1l
Officer Spoils the q
Shannon spent the bet
two days hanging around /
before Monroe showed urI
however, he came down e.
ward the postoffice, aceo..
his brother, who sails und
of Harrington. and who
larger man. Shannon waf
side the postoflice, nnconsI
approach of the pair. n
\ policeman stationed 4,
ever, saw the two men y
knew that one of them 4,
Shannon wanted. Without
the men To get inside a.
where Shannon had arrans
the doors closed so as to
possibility of escape, Z
promptly accosted Monrc
him he was under arrest. i,
Monroe S big brother e
in a minute, and started L
officer. While the oflicefl
Cling with him the little 4
away, and hasn t been see
Makes Another BDs
Then, without notifying;
what had happened. tn /;
took the big brother to II /.
tion first and locked him !
went back TO the postoiH /
Shannon that the other !
The town was secured b
but no trace of him con
Shannon came back to
much disgusted man.
The police believe thai. :
been arrested. much Of
taken from the Daynes
have been recovered. As Z
diamonds which he had d
Reno were recovered, but
are still in possession OF !
loot which they secured II :
shannon investigated :
brother, Harrington. but
he would he able to provo
in Reno at work when 2
occurred. so it was no 4,
him back. Monroe serve
the penitentiary at NJ:
Wash, for grand larcen
sent up from Seattle. N
One Crook Married i
II is known that the u
robbed Daynes s store li> :
two or three months D
burglary was committei
them, giving the name j
was married here. hut, a.
reticence of the police ab'E
the name OF his wife OF
whereabouts cannot =
Neither can it be learnefe !
not she was a partner ia s
The three pickpockets {
Denver assert that, so
completely in the robberyI1
they will be able to PR
and that they were in pS
time. Subsequently, II
through Salt Lake en- ~
Francisco, and it was the :
came into possession of ~
probably will be arraign's
a charge Of receiving n
Despite their alleged cor :
may not plead guilty ASte
X. Christensen aud wml
are representing them. IA
Son-in-Law Of III,
Mcfarland. one of the ,
declares that he IS a s
Judge O. n. Hilton. !
Denver criminal lawyer y
up the "confession" " WI
Parent made in the SheeI
John b. Burbidge, who
men back from Denver, ga
know whether the woma4 I
as Mrs. Mcfarland is IA,
ton S daughter or not.
The self-alleged sol
Judge Hilton is nor
fessed pfckpocket, nut ne 1,
head" or, in other words
the opium habit.