The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-17
YELLOW HYBRID
IS IMPLICATED
WITH SULLIVAN
Garcia, a Chinese Mexican, the
Third Man in at Killing
of Ford.
EXPOSE MAY CLEAR UP
MYSTERIOUS R0BBERIES
SKULkING CRIMINAL CONDUCT.
ED HIS CAMPAIGNS LIKE
A BEAST OF PREY.
Extra Policemen Ordered.

Extra Policemen Ordered.
&. At the urgent request of Chief %
g Of Police Thomas D. Pitt. the 9
g council last night authorized the g
g appointment of from one to ten o
g special policemen to serve from o
g now until the first of the year at q.
&: a salary of So per day. In sup %
e port of the resolution adopted TO 9
(. this effect, Councilman c. J. q
6: Crabtree, chairman of the police .,
. committee, said that the present .,
. members of the police force had 9,
g been worked to death in an at .,
&. tempt to locate the murderers of g
g Policeman Ford. %
9 o o . o o Q o o 9 o 100000 o
Fleeing with Joe Sullivan, highway
man and supposed murderer of Police
man Charles S. Ford, is a half Mexi-
can, half Chinese thug. known as
Garcia" who. if the stories told Of
him are true, is a darker criminal than
Sullivan. It may have been he, and
not the sailor ex-convict, who fired
the shot on Saturday morning which
ended the pOliceman's life. after the
hold-up at the Albany bar
Investigation made by the police has
brought to light the fact that Garcia"
operated as a burglar and porch climb
er in salt Lake from early in October
up to the time of his disappearance
on Saturday morning. Chief Pitt is
confident that Garcia" was the man
who robbed the residences Of Richard
d. Millet, John ]. DAILY and other
wealthy citizens.
Garcia" while in salt Lake, showed
that he was a crafty and cunning Grim
inal. In pursuing his operations he
denied himself all the pleasures of life,
keeping himself in rigid secIusion.
In the day time, he slept, or rather
remained in hiding in the room of Tip"
Belcher, the bartender at the Jubilee
saloon, who lived at $50 North Main
street. At night he would prowl the
residential districts of the city. but
would keep away from the down town
districts.
Like a Beast of Prey.
In this way he avoided attracting the
attention of the police. He was a man
whose face, once seen. would long be
remembered. He seemed to know this.
and hid himself so securely that none
but Belcher and Belchers wife knew
that he concealed himself by day in the
old Kimball house. The location of his
retreat enabled him TO reach the
northeastern residential districts with
out crossing any of the streets filled
with traffic and crowded with pedes-
trians. This probably accounts for the
fact that most of the big rObberies
were committed in the northeastern
part OF the city
On returning from his proving trips
Garcia" would creep into the BeIchers'
room and curl up on the floor without
removing his clothes. Under a pillow
on which his head rested he kept a
loaded revolver and often, when he
would awaken from his fitful slumber
he would nerVOusly seize the weapon
and listen intently, as though moment
arily expecting the police to break in
the door The Belchers were afraid OF
him and dared not refuse him asylum
or food.
A Lust for Crime.
The yellow man seemed TO have a
lust for crime, and TO follow his law
less calling was willing TO live the life
of a hunted animal or wild beast,
creeping out of his hiding place only
when the veil of night hid his stealthy
movements from the Watchfulness OF
the police.
In the Belchers' room were found two
rubber shoes. These, the police learn
ed, belonged to Garcia" and were used
by him when he went forth to climb
pOrches and commit burglaries.
1t is said that Garcia although
born in Mexico. is the son OF a Chinese
father, and displays a sulIen ferocity
and WantOn cruelty peculiarly oriental.
The police have seized several pieces
of jewelry which were stolen from Salt
Lake houses. These were given by
Garcia TO Commercial street charac-
ters, who pawned them, having first
been assured by the Mexican that the
articles had not been stolen in this
city, but were the loot of burglaries
committed in Denver. Among the ar
ticles recovered were a watch which
had been stolen from Mary Peterson,
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