Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-25
ASK M'COOEY
ABOUT UTAH
BANK THEFT
FIND CHAUFFEUR BELIEVED TO
KNOW SOMETHING
PlNKERToN MEN LOCATE HIM IN
LOS ANGELES
Not Supposed to Know More Of Mys-
terious Robbery Than as
Witness-Taken Before
Chief Kern

The scene of investigation of the rob-
berry Of the Utah National bank of Salt
Lake City has been transferred from
Zion to Los Angeles. Two Pinkerton
men from the Denver office, who have
been for five weeks working on the
mysterious robbery, are in Los An
geles looking for two persons supposed
to know something about the robbery
One was found yesterday and taken to
police Headquarters and catechiSed be-
fore Chief Kern.
The one found yesterday was Jack
McCooey, formerly a chauffeur for
well-known Salt Lake man. McCooey
is not supposed to have had direct con-
nection with the robbery, but was
catechised, 1t is understood, as to visits
made to the bank late at night by
persons who used an automobile which
he drove. His examination before
Chief Kern is said to have satisfied the
chief and the Pinkerton men that his
testimony may be of the greatest i'm
portance in case arrests were made
The other person is understood to be
under surveillance but has not been
officially interrogared.
The robbery of the Utah National
bank is proving one of the greatest
mysteries the Pinkertons have ever
ing it they are not having the assis-
tance of the Salt Lake police because
the Bankers association of Salt Lake
has not asked for such assistance, pre-
ferring to have the work done by pri-
vate authority.
Robbed of $43,ooo
Announcement was made about Feb
ruary / that the bank had been robbed
of $4,000. The bank is one of several
financial institutions controlled by w.
S. Mccormick, q multimillionaire or
Zion, and in which F. Agustus Heinze
had an interest. Since the announce
ment of the robbery Vice President
Adams has retired from his office, and
a meeting of the board of directors
dropped Heinze.
THE disclosure of the robbery was a
shock. The money was stolen from
the private bank vault in which about
half million in currency and coin was
stored constituting the cash reserve.
The combination of this vault was
known, it is understood, to only three
mens
The money disappeared, according to
the best information, from the vault
between January and 10. While 1t
is admitted that $4,000 has been taken,
there is a belief that an amount In
excess of 100000 is really to be ac-
counted for.
The discovery was made by the state
bank examiner who, in the line or his
duty, appeared to count 1t. When he
was presented the keys to the inner
doors, which were always kept In a
sealed envelope, he called attention to
the fact that they were not intact.
with the written understanding that
he begun his count with that fact es-
tablished he went to work and dis
covered the shortage.
Pinkertons Called In
When the bank officials were in
formed they at once changed the COM
bination and through the Bankers as
sociation called in the Pinkertons.
So far the Pinkertons have been un-
able to solve TIE mystery President
Mccormick has stated that the amount
taken was $4,000 and that the person
who committed the theft would be ar
rested. That suspicion Is we'll directed
is shown by the efforts to find wit
nesses who have left Salt Lake City
since the theft was committed. While
the combination of the vault was sup
posed TO be known to only three men
there is a belief that knowledge of 1t
was gained by one other and that
through this tie robbery was made
possible.
McCooey was well-known chauffeur
in Salt Lake City, and his connection
with the investigation seems to have
beon wholly innocent and in the line of
his business. If 1t was a connection at
all. He left Salt Lake several weeks
ago. going first to San Francisco and
then coming here.