The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-30
CROOK Tells Of
DAYNES BURGLARS
Ed Phillips. in Jail in Denver,
Gives Names of Guilty
to Police.
CAREFUL TO EX0NERATE
HIMSELF FROM GUILT
Only $500 Worth of Stolen
Loot, Valued at $4,000,
Has Been Recovered.

After recovering only about $500
worth of the plunder stolen in the Sl5,-
600 Daynes' jewelry robbery in Salt
Lake, the Denver officers who have heen
working on the case have secured II
confession from Edward Phillips,
the alleged crook, arrested at La Junta,
Colo, and taken 10 Denver on n charge
OF completely in the robbery, In his
" confession Phillips is careful to ex-
onerate himself from, any connection
with the safe blowing, but has furnished
the Denver police with list of the
names of the men who, according To his
story, did the job.
The story of Phillips confession is
told in the following dispatch received
uy The Tribune from its Denver cor
respondent Tuesday night:
Edward Phillips has confessed he
was ut first believed to be one Of the
mon who buglarized the Daynes Jew
elry store in Salt Lake. but was only
one of mob Of pickpockets who met
the safe blowers in Salt Lake Just after
the robbery and who bought The cheap
and easily identified loot from them at
ten cents on the dollar.
Furnishes Names to Police.
In Phillips confession he furnishes
the Sheriff s Office with the names of all
those who. took part in the robbery di-
T
with Coal Oil johnny Mcfarland and
one Jennings, he was working trains
between Denver aud Salt Lake While
resting up in the Mormon capital they
met the two fe-blowers who sold the
watches TO them. Phillips sent A por-
tlon of his share To a woman called
Alice Phillips, a Denver courtesan, and
expressed the rest in his own name to
Denver.
"McFarlaud and Jennings also sent
on part of their loot, and, carrying
the rest with them, started for Den
yer. All might have gone well if they
had been content with what they had,
but on the train the mob picked the
pocket OF the nephew Of n Sheriff
Phillips was detected by the conductor,
who had him arrested When Phillips
was searched the Sheriff found on his
person receipts from the Wells Fargo |
Express Co. for jewelry sent to Alice
Phillips at Denver and also n letter
from her, stating that she had received
another package.
'While Phillips was in Jail the rest |
Of the gang continued to Denver. and
Phillips, seeing n penitentiary sentence |
staring him in the face. broke down
and told the officials about the robbery |
and the names of his pals in Denver.
Pound In Opium Joint.
"Sheriff Nesbit of Denver was in
formed and the rest was easy. knowing |
that the men in question were all opium |
tends, raid Of the joints was made |
with tine result that they were caught |
with the goods on them. and while try |
ing TO sell them. A number Of ar
tjcles We're found in the tenderIoin,
where they had been cached, and still |
others were recovered from Cinnamon |
to whom they were sold.
Phillips was brought TO Denver to
aid in the search, and so far about !
ninety watch cases, said TO be of lit
tie value, have been recovered, but the
diamonds, Phillips declares, are not in
Denver, and he says the men who blew
the safe have them. He has furnished
their names to Sheriff Nesbit and the
police of all the cities east and west
have been requested to look out for
blowers were in Salt Lake when his
gang left there, aud were intending TO
go towards the coast.
1.-THE entire value Of the plunder re-
covered does not exceed $500, and it is
stated that the watches are of cheap
quality which could not be disposed of
in an auction store. Police Captain
Burbidge of Salt Lake is in Denver
to aid in the search for the plunder
and TO convey back TO Utah the por-
ton which has been recovered -
Chief Sheets Reticent.
Chief of Police George A. Sheets,
when asked about this Daynes case
Tuesday night, was inclined to be reti-
cent. He said he knew practically
nothing about what the Denver officers
were doing. Police Captain John g.
Burbidge is in Denver, but he wired
Chief Sheets Tuesday that he would
write him particulars about the lives
tigation there. BE has sent no infor.
nation by wire, and his letter will not
arrive until sometime today
Chief Sheets declined TO say whether
or not he is looking for the men whose
names Phillips IS supposed tc have fur
nished the Denver police. or to admit
that ne even knew that Phillips or any
body else connected with the case had
made q confession