The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
DARING THIEVES
MAKE RICH HAUL
Farmer Is Robbed of Over $40O
by Clever PiCkpoCketS in
Broad Daylight.
OGDEN ALSO A VICTIM
BOLD TRIO TOUCH" THREE
MEN AT JUNCTION CITY.

Three clever pickpockets robbed Car
ence Johnson. q young farmer from
GIenwood, Sewer county. Utah. of $40
yesterday morning in front of the Utah
Liquor cOmpanys saloon on Main
street. In open defiance of the police
The three men committed the daring
theft i'm broad daylight. and on the
principal thorOughfare of the city. The
robbery was discovered within a few
moments. but by that time the rob
bers were nowhere TO be found.
The men who committed the robbery
arc believed to he the same trio that
stole $40 from a passenger on an Ore
son Short Line train between Green
River Wyo., and Ogden, and who rob
bed three Ogden men Friday.
Robbed in Crowd.
Clarence johnson. the victim of yes
tcrday's robbery, sold team i'm Salt
Lake for $3.50. receiving check in
payment. He and his uncle Henry
Johnson went IL the National Bank of
Tho Republic and cashed this check. re-
ceiving gold in payment Together with
nearly 5000 also in gold, which he had
previous to the Cashing of the check,
ne placed the money received from the
bank in his overalls' pocket. He and
his uncle then went half a BLOCK down
the street to the saloon of the Utah
Liquor company.
As they were about to enter the sa-
loon. three men iostled against them
and prevented them from entering the
doorway. The elder johnson said to
them, Cant YOU let a man into this
salOon?" AT that the three men sep
arated and the Johnsons went into the
saloon. They ordered the drinks and as
Clarence reached into his pocket where
he had put the gold, he found that it
was empty. He Immediately suspected
that the three men who jostIed against
him in the doorway had robbed him
and he rushed from the saloon shout
ing that he had been robbed and
searching Tor the thieves. The trio.
however. had disappeared completely
and no trace of the men could be found
Traiied the Victim.
II is believed that the piokpockets
watched the bank and saw Johnson
-dra " the money and place it in his
overalls' pocket. Then they shadowded
the two men as they went down the
street. and in the crOwdng that was
done at the entrance to the saloon one
OF the trio deity inserted his hand into
The farmers pocket and deity removed
the handful of gold pieces that consti-
tuted Johnson's al.
According to the police the men who
are guilty of the clever theft are
strangers in the city. having arrived
but yesterday from Ogden. The police
are convinced that they are the same
ones who have been reaping a valuable
harvest working on trains and in Og-
den the past few days Yesterday the
detective department of the Oregon
Short Line was notified of the theft
OF $40 from one of the passengers S
he was going to Ogden from Green
River. 1t is thought that the man was
robbed by this trio of pickpockets as
he was leaving the train at Ogden.
Terrorized Ogden.
In few hours Friday these pick
pockets, who are believed to be among
The cleverest i'm the west. created
short reign Of terror by robbinc three
men IN cars going from the Union de-
Tot in that city. The Ogden police yes
lerday morning said that as near as
they could ascertain, the thieves want
81 i'm Ogden had left for Salt Lake
and since the robbery of Yesterday
morning the police here are inclined To
share their belief
johnson and his uncle are stopping
at the Fly hotel and will remain i'm salt
Lake as long as there is any hope of
recovering the stolen money or of run
ming the culprits TO earth.