The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-11

IharlcS Is. Meyer was An lhLldbe VI '"S
prison, His number was declared to be
Identical with that given above.
The records of the Chicago police de-
partment show the following cntrles
under date of December 4, 1889, the
namo of the prisoner being given as I.
nS.' Moyer in each instance
c. s. Moyer, alias Fred baker' bur,
glary; complainant lngoor Larsen, ~
John Heating, burglary, the same
c. S. Mover, alias Fred Baker, bur
plarv; Sven 7. Johnson, 90 Northwest
ern avenue.
c. S, Meyer, alias Fred Baker, rob
berry; C. +. Murphy, 1898 Michigan ave
nue,
c. S. Meyer, alias Fred Baker, at
tempted robbery; Jacob Emans, 20 Wal
nut street
c. S. Meyer, alias Fred Baker. carry
ing concealed weapons; Jno, Hartnett
In all the above eases duphcate
charges were filed against John heatlng,
who was said TO have been partner
of Mover in the crimes committed.
Story Of the Arrest.
The arrest was made upon the morn-
ing Of December 4, 1855, according to
the Journal s story, by Patrolman John
Hartnett. who is now a lieutenant at
jhe West Lake street police station, and
was for time an inspector. tartnett
was going north toward Wood street,
when he heard men running behind him,
He stopped the men and asked where
they were going. They said they Were
going home. Hartnett then asked one
of the men, who was later identified as
Heating, what his name was, keatlng
replied:
John Kelly"
"What is your name?'' asked Hart
nett of the other man.
Fred Baker, was the reply.
The man giving the name of Baker
opened mis- coat as he spoke, and Hart
nett caught sight of revolver. He at
once struck the man across the face
with his club, knocking his senseless.
keatlng turned and ran, but was
brought to a halt by Hartnett s threat
TO shoot him if he did not stop.
According TO the story printed by
the Jornal, Hartnett waited until The
man who was afterward declared to he
Meyer, recovered and then marched
both men TO the patrol box at Wood
and Madison street, where he was JOIN
ed by Patrolman Thomas HennessSy,
who is still connected with the Lake
street station, Here Heating made an
attempt 10 escape, but was re-csptured.
Both men were than taken to the Lake
street station. There, according TO the
Jornsl, Meyer first gave the name Of
Fred Baker, and then said his name
was Charles Meyer. Heating made no
further attempt TO conceal his identity
and made a full confession OF the
crimes enumerated above.
The two men were later held to the
grand jury, in bonds of $4,000 each by
Justice c, J. White at the Desplaines
street police station.
Sentenced to Prison.
January 20, 1856, the men were SEN
fenced 10 Joliet, Heating for two years,
and Meyer for one year. The charge
on which the sentence was based was
the burglary OF Larson s Clothing store
al 721 West Lake street.
Lieutenant Hartnett today corrobor
ated all of the facts given above, and
said that he had been told afterward
that Mover had declared that had Hart
nett been a little slower with his club
he would have been killed.
Hartnett said today:
Mover used TO amuse himself IN
saloons by shooting pool balls into the
pockets with his revolver, and he had
Inc general reputation at the time OF
being a bad man.
John Heating died while convict
in the Joliet penitentlaTy, and one OF
his brothers, Charles keatlng who is
row prisoner in the county jail, said
today:
''We always knew that Charles H.
Mover, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. was The man who
was sent 10 the penitentiary with my
brother Johnny / don t remember my.
self, bat ne used to 90 with my sister,
and | have often heard my folks speak
OF him. After Meyer got out of the
penitentiary he used to write TO mu-
tual acquaintance, Samuel Williams, and
Williams used TO read The letters TO
us. One time Sam came over with a
paper telling how Charles Mover had
been made the head of the miners
union. -
Corrobative Evidence.
Mrs. Heating, the mother Of John
Heating, today accused Meyer of being
the cause of her son S downfall. She
said:
"Charlie Meyer left Chicago as soon
as he got out of the peniteutiary. but
for a long time he wrote to Sam Will
hams, who lived next door to us. and
Williams used to read us the letters.
Williams later went to Missouri and we
have not heard from him since.
The Journal also prints story,
dated Boone, Iowa, which is substan-
TALLY as follows:
Frank s. Meyer. chief Of police of
Boone for years and now conductor
on street car line here, is a brother
Of Charles II. Meyer. He said today
TO Journal correspondent
81 heard that Charles got into trou-
bic in Chicago once and was arrested.
Probably the less said about it the bet
ter. ! know that Charley went to Chi
cago in 1884 or 1855 and was gone about
year and half. ! did not hear from
him during that time. Later Charley
went to Deadwood and then to Denver.
] have often heard Charley speak of
sam Williams, but l never saw Williams
myself
Discredited in Denver.
DENVER. May 10-The story that
Charles II. Meyer. president Of the
Western Federation of Miners, served
term in the Joliet penitentlary for
burglary is discredited at the Fedora.
tion headquarters i'll this city. C. E.
Mahoney, vice-president and acting
president, said he had no record of Mr.
Meyers entire career, but was positive
that the man who served term in the
Joliet penitentiary was not the man who
is now president of The Western FEEDER
alton of Miners,