The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Ogden News
Office 40 Twenty-Fifth Street.
Ogden, Saturday, May 2.
WANT LUCAS IN
SOUTH DAKOTA
Man Sentenced to Prison From
Ogden Said to Be Bank
R0bber.

i. Il. Lucas whose term in the state
prison will expire May 25, is pronounced
to be daring criminal, for whom the au-
thorities of several states are looking. 1t
is said that his name Is o. X Thomas
and that his speciality is bank robbing
Aberdeen, 5. d., is the place where Lucas
is especially wanted and to this place he
will be taken by the Pinkertons when his
term expires the last of the month
Lucas was arrested hera last summer
together with man named Quinn. after
they were caught entering store. The
thefts were daring in the extreme and
clever. Following in the path of the pc
nceman on the beat they entered four or
five stores with the aid of keys and jim
mics. Plain clothes men watched the ac-
uons of the men and effected the cap
ture.
While Lucas and Quinn were confined
in the county jail an attempt to break
Jail on the part of a number of the pris-
oners was frustrated by timely warn
ing given by some of those on the inside.
quinn was one of those to place this in
formation in the hands of the sheriff.
Among those in Jail at that time was an
old man named Johnson, who is now also
doing time in the state prison. Johnson
had made a key of wood that was to be
used in the main door of the Jail when
the break was to be made.
For his part III informing the sheriff
OF the plan, Lucas received light SEN
tence, although Judge Howell announced
ttldl u was TIE IdSl llInS WOULD per-
NIT a recommendation of mercy from the
OFFICERS of the law to influence his YER
dict The county attorney took up the
case and later another complaint was filed
against Lucas. He will likely be brought
TO ogden on this charge when he is re-
leased and here turned over to the Pink
ertons to be taken back to South Dakota
for bank robbery.
While in jail here Lucas showed that
he had friends somewhere. He was ready
TO put up cash bail of a large amount
but the authorities did not want him to
escape that way and filed a number of
charges, making the bail of such proper
tons that he could not secure the sum
II now develops that Lucas comes from
a good family. His wife, who visited him
in Jail here, showed that she was a wo-
man Of refinement and education.
1t is now claimed that on Oct. &c 1906,
Lucas, OF rather Thome.- commenced a
journey of crime out of Chicago and left
his trace in successful safe blowing eX-
PLOTS through several states. Until he
reached South Dakota, Thome did nothing
that would lift him out of the ranks of
the ordinary night man who takes chances
at anything from a wooden money box
to the latest hard and soft steel At Alb
robbery of $1,000 from the bank of that
place.
As soon as the PinkertOns took a hand
IN the case Thome was suspected, but
he covered up his tracks SUCCESSFULLY The
Ptnkertons assert that there is no doubt
but that the man known here as Lucas
is the fellow Thome Photographs taken
compared and the claim is made that the
likeness is perfect. Members of the local
police force worked with the Pinkertons
in making the discovery.