The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-20
PAIR OF THUGS
BEAT TWO MEN
WITH HAMMERS
Eddie Green Expected to Die of
Injuries inflicted by
HighWaymen.
TWO ARE ARRESTED:
ADMIT THEIR GUILT
BELIEVED THAT VICTIM CANNOT
LIVE MANY HOURS-THUGS
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS.


= Early this morning it was an :.
- nounced at st. Marks hospital by -
y Police Surgeon Samuel @. Paul =
= and DR.. NJ. r. Stewart, the attend =
/ - ing physicians that Green could :.
- not live until morning. His death -
:: was momentariiy expected :.
Within a few hours after the brutal
| hOld-up had been reported to the police,
Art Bowen and Dick Baker were cap
/ tured and confessed to the hold-up and
attempted murder. The police got on
the trail Immediately after the hold-up.
and at l o'clock this morning the men
were in Jail Under a severe Sweat
| ing" by Chief of Police Pitt and Cap
tain John Burbidge, both Of the rob-
| bers confessed to the crime
! Beaten into insensibility and left for
| dead, Eddie Green, a junk dealer, is
| now believed to be dying at St. Marks
| hospital His comrade, Mike GlOben-
felt, is at the emergency hospital at the
police station suffering from wounds in
| fiicted by the same bandits.
The crime was committed in a lonely
/ section of North Salt Lake, beyond the
/ fair grounds, where the two victims
| had been taken by their assailants os-
| tensibly for the purpose of selling them
/ some junk, but in reality for the pur-
pose of numbering and rObbing them.
| Green, who is the MOST seriously hurt,
/ has five fractures of the skull, twelve
| scalp wounds and four broken bones,
/ caused by blows of a hammer and
| a towel roller. He is not expect
! ed to recover GIobenfelt escaped
! from his assailants, after he had
! been severely beaten, by running
/ through a marsh and hiding in a bunch
/ of brush. He made his way TO a store
some blocks distant and from there the
police were notified. From their vic
/ time the robbers secured S120, taking
S6S from Globenfelt and So from Green.
! GlobenfeIt and a friend, Harry
/ Brown, arrived in Salt Lake Wednes-
day afternoon from Caliente. and have
! been stopping since their arrival at the
/ Cooper hotel. On Wednesday evening,
| while in the Success bar on East Sec
ond South street, GlObenfelt was APP
preached by a short man, from whom
| he had purchased junk when in Salt
Lake three months ago. This man said
| that he had some junk for sale, and
| Globenfelt made an appointment to
meet him at the same saloon the fol-
| lowing afternoon at o'clock.
Get Out Their Hammers.
In the meantime he arranged with
| Green to be at the saloon with horse
and wagon with which to haul the
/ Junk. Green and GlObenfelt appeared
at the saloon at the appointed time,
and met the man with whom the ar
rangement had been made, and another
man, a stranger to Globenfelt. They
got into the rig, Green and Globenfelt
/ ~ he fhnw
| two riding behind them. They drove
according to the directions given by
| the men standing behind.
( As they were driving on the road to
| the Oakley addition the two thugs sud
/ denly attacked the two junk dealers
with the hammer and towel roll
er which they apparently had car
ried in their pockets. Globenfelt
was struck several times over the
head by the taller of the two highway
men and in struggling to free himself
/ fell to the ground. His assailant leaped
after him and struck him several times
over the head with the hammer. The
victim lay quiet on the ground az
though he were unconscious and the
rObber went through his pockets, TAX
/ ing his purse which contained $6S.
Runs Through a Swamp.
The horse which was hitched to the
/ wagon kept on going during the attack
and the taller of the bandits followed
/ the rig and leaped on to assist his
companion in the attack on Green.
/ When he had gone Globenfelt ran
through a swamp to escape from the
/ bandits. He started to cross an ice
pond and broke through into the water.
] He was drenched to the skin and weak
| from loss of blood, but he managed to
crawl to a thicket of brush in which he
hid until he saw the men driving
! toward Salt Lake in the rig they had
! taken from the junk dealers.
After that he ran stumbling toward
store he had remembered passing. He
| fell several times on the way from eX-
/ haustiOn. He met some small boys
| whom he sent on ahead to telephone to
/ the police. The patrol wagon and sew
/ eraI officers were sent 20 the place.
When they arrived they found Green
lying i'm the road unconscious. Both
! men were hurried to the station, where
I their injuries were dressed by Drs.
| Stewart and Paul.
] After an examination in which il was
/ learned that Green was suffering from
five fractures of the skull he was TAX
en- to St Marks hospital. He recovered
! consciousness but was unable to tell
/ arvthing about the encounter with the
/ hiehwavmen. Re was orerated on at
/ the toecital last night. hut the ply
e:eiars fear that he cannot live. Go
benfelt's injuries are painful but not
serious. He is still at the emergency
/ fosDital.
The rig which the boid-up men took
from their victims was found on the
street in North salt Lake where 1t had
+ been ehandon ID Dy thu thugs
C3ces From Junk Dealers.
TIE first cl-e to The identity Of the
robbers was obtained b. the police
through other junk dealers with whom
Bowen and Baker had talked. AT the
CONTINUED on Paae 2.