Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-28
Tells of His Experiences With
The Pinkerton Detectives
On the Coast.
GENTLE ART OF sHADoWlNG
Relates How Was Followed from City
And Had a Good Time on
Their Money.

Jack McCooey, the young Chauffeur
who created something of a sensation
| in Los Angeles through being question
| ed by detectives in connection with
the Utah National bank robbery, is back
! in Salt Lake.
"The papers here had my record n
| little mixed" he said. ''They printed a
story that l worked five days for Mr..
Mccormick as chauffeur, and l didn't.
| He wanted man to run his machine
| and also to milk the COW and do
chores, and for those two positions
didn't qualify, so quit, and went to
work for Mr.. CARAT"
McCooey is boy Of less than 20
years and rather slight but trinity built.
He arrived from Los Angeles this
| morning and went at once to the auto
mobile garage on Market street. Later
he went to the Utah National bank
where he found Mr.. CARAT, who sent
him a ticket to come home, and Joseph
Nelson in a conversation on business
matters so that he did not have Il
chance to see his former employer this
morning.
He waited at the bank for a time,
and then went back to garage with
a number of admiring automobile driv-
ers who We're busy explaining to him
how, he had broken into the headlines
of the Salt Lake papers.
DETECTIVES GREAT BOYS.
SAY, those detectives are great
boys" he said in a conflding burst of
enthusiasm. 1.-THE followed me clear
from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and
| bet the weather was so sloppy some
days on the boat that they wished they
could cough their own stomachs up in
stead of trying to find what was in
| mine.
do you know I'd call 'em a bunch
of correspondence school detectives,
only had to borrow money off of 'em
and they certainly wuz good to me-"
When his attention was called to a
special from Los Angeles. stating that
he had given the detectives important
Information, he laughed and said
there was nothing to 1t.
THAT impor int information /
guess" he added. was that l had
driven Mr.. Garrett up to the bank
afte banking hours. They tried
mighty hard to make me say this,
but I guess they didn't get much sat
isfaction. l wasn't piping myself off,
not much.'
In response to question as to
| Whether he mad been questioned ny
Pinkertons Or by the regular police.
young McCooey said he never saw the
| regular police at all, but was just
| questioned by Pinkertons.
LOANED HIM MONEY.
''First / heard of them" he said.
was when a fellow came into the
| place where L was rooming with two
| other fellows. The other two were in
| bed. Where is McCooey?' said the
| detective. and one of them answered
| that he wasn't there. Yes he is the
! detective said, and you're him. Well,
| they found me, finally, and then the
| guy got pretty chummy. / went to
| the office with him several times and
| finally they offered me q job at the
| race track for them. L borrowed
money off them. but never got on
| the job. After we got chummy the
| detective told me about following me
| All the way down the coast, and also
| following some other Salt Lake boys.
/ guess maybe my room-mates on the
| steamer were detectives. but IL they
were they didn't find out much"
McCooey has been re-employed by
| Mr.. Garrett and VIII drive his ma
| chine this summer.