The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
LONG, HARD CHASE
FOR A CRIMINAL
Detective Joe Days Pursuit by
Sea and Land of Port
land Offender.
CAPTURED IN LIVERPOOL
CROOK INJURED BY JUMPING
FROM TRAIN.

fROM KAHN.
John Thomas Thompson. who was cap
tured by Detective Joseph Day of Port
land in Liverpool, England, after chase
lasting three years and extending half
way around the world, and who on
Thursday morning leaped from flying
passenger train in a desperate attempt
to escape. was brought TO Salt Lake yes
terday morning after his recapture by
Detective Day and passed several hours
in the city Jail here. He was taken to
Portland last night.
Thompson is charged with the theft of
5000. stolen fl ON William Winter. the
proprietor of the Log Cabin saloon in
Portland on Oct. 16, 1904. He was en-
ployed as a bartender in the Log Cabin
saloon at that time. On that date Win
ter vert on a fishing trip, giving ThOmp-
son the combination to the safe and
placing him in charge of the saloon. As
soon as he had ascertained that Win
ter had taken the train out of town
Thompson opened the safe and took from
IL $500 worth Of diamonds and 8, 400 ~
cash. After stealing the money and dia-
monds he disappeared.
Located In Edinburgh.
A month later he was located in Edin-
burgh. Scotland The Portland officers
Cabled to the authorities in Scotland TO
arrest Thompson. Before the officers were
able to reach him, however. he had left
the country. The next place he was
heard from was in Oklahoma. Three
hours before the police reached the hotel
at which he was stopping Thompson had
again dropped out of sight After lapse
Of several months he was seen in San
Antonio, Tex, last October, by a man
named Healy, who knew Thompson and
knew that he was wanted in Portland.
Healy pointed Thompson out to the po-
lice of San Antonio and he was arrested.
The Portland authorities were notified,
but through misunderstanding the chief
of police at Portland did not reply and
Thompson was released
In the meantime a reward of 500 had
been Offered for the capture of ThOmp-
son. 1t was later reduced TO 800 A
Toledo man who knew Thompson when
he lived at Toledo, located Thompson last
spring at the Porter hotel in the City Of
Mexico. He notified Detective Joseph
Day of the sheriffs office in Portland Of
his discovery. RequisitiOn papers were
secured and Detective Day started for
Mexico to get the fugitive. When the
officer reached Tucson, Ariz., he received
Geographic communication from the pO-
lice at Mexico that Thompson had once
more eluded the officials.
Chased to Montreal.
Through the postal authorities it was
J
treal. Detective Day at once went to
the Canadian city. arriving there only TO
learn that his man had gone to Liverpool.
After reaching Liverpool Thompson sent
word to the postmaster at Mexico to for
ward his mail to the Lion street station
I'm Liverpool. The postal officials notified
the American ambassador to Mexico and
he in turn wired this fact to Secretary OF
State Elihu Root The state department
through Ambassador WhitelaW Reid
asked the British officers to aid in the
search for Thompson.
At the same time Detective Day. after
arranging the necessary official red tape
necessary to eXtradite the fugitive, set
sail for Liverpool. When he reached
there Thompson was in France. The Of
ficer continued the chase to Paris and
England. Detective Day had crossed the
channel from FolkstOne TO Bordeaux and
the same day Thompson had sailed from
Calais to Dover. Warm on the trail the
detective found that Thompson had stop
ped at the New York and London hotel
in Paris and had ordered his mail sent to
Edinburgh.
Back to Edinburgh the detective pur-
sued his fugitive, arriving there a few
hours too late. Once more the postal
authorities came 10 the rescue and
through them it was learned that the
much wanted and much pursued man had
returned to Liverpool, leaving word that
his mail should go as before to the Lion
street station. Together with some Scot
wait for Thompson.
Capture in Liverpool.
After waiting about three hours a jaun-
tily dressed man walked into the post
office and asked for mail addressed to
John Thomas Thompson. He was at once
arrested. At the time of the capture,
which was on May 10, Detective Day had
been securing the British Isles and the
continent for two months, always close
behind his man.
1t took thirty days to get the official
papers necessary to obtain the return Of
the fugitive TO America. A warrant
signed by President Roosevelt for the ar
rest of Thompson had to be obtained and
a permit to take Thompson from Eng
land bearing the royal seal. In the mean
time the prisoner was detained in Brixton
prison arraigned and remanded twice by
the Justice at the Bow street station
During his stay in London Detective Day
was given an audience with the king and
admitted to several royal functions.
While awaiting the government processes
the officer Travelled through Ireland and
Wales.
SAIL for America on the Campania. arriv-
ing in New York a week later. Thomp-
son was detained at the Mulberry street
station two days before the journey
across the continent was begun The
trip was unevehtful until they left Den
YER About three miles out of Denver
Thursday morning when the detective
was preparing TO put the nanucuIIS on
his man, Thompson suddenly threw him
self from the train through an open YES
thule The train was going at the rate
of forty miles an hour and IL seemed
as though he must meet certain death.
Officers in Pursuit Again.
BEFORE the astonished officer could have
the train stopped it had gone a cOnsid-
cradle distance beyond the place where
Thompson had leaped from the train. 1t
seemed more advisable for the officer 10
continue TO Castle Rock, the next stop
ping place. thirty-five miles farther, than
TO walk back TO where ne had lost his
man. At Castle Rock Detective Day
wired the Denver police to look for the
man and he caught the next train back
10 Denver.
In the meantime the desperate leap of
THOMPSON had been witnessed by a num-
Der of Rio Grande employees near the
track and by DR.. Horace 5. Hooper Of
20 Jason street, Denver, who was driv-
ing back from a call at Valverde, Col.
The doctor and the railroad men hurried
10 the place where the man had fallen.
Thompson was apparently suffering
much pain. Il was afterwards found that
two ribs and his collar bone was broken
and that his scalp was severely LAGER