Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-26
Bold CRACksMEN
CAUGHT At Work
Murray Officers Capture Man
Supplied With Big Kit
Of Tools.
MAKING TUNNEL TO BANK
Vault Containing Several Thousand
Dollars Would Have Been Reached
In Short Order by tic Robbers.

With one man at large, The other, T..
Il. Stevens, in jail, the Murray officers
stopped short Il desperate and care
fully planned attempt 1T bank robbery
at II o'clock Saturday night In tho
Murray Slate bank. With an excellent
description of the missing man, the
narshals Office is hopeful OF locating
him before he has chance to leave
the country, but admits that there is
some liiSlihood OF him being beyond
reach at this time.
The discovery OF the safe crackers
at work may be said to have been az
most accidental II was while they
We're at work digging Il tunnel through
the bank walls that they We're inter
lupted by Deputy Marshal sam Whit
tie and August Johnston. The two men
WIRE IN an adjoining building and
palnstaking effort was the cost of their
entrance to the bank, but they We're
secluded and almost without danger
of observation as they worked
Earlier in the evening the deputy
and Johnston We're watching man
and woman who We're acting sus-
piciously. While following them into
a dark alley, the officers We're startled
to see a man with large bundle en-
ter the alley Taking a circuit. the
two, followed this man6and found him
moment later talking with another
In a dark corner OF the alley in the
rear of the building. The two had
Just started to work on their tunnel r
WHITTLE STOPS THEM.
Whittle was convinced that thcy
We're bent$upon robbery and he chal-
Ienged the pair TO his uucstions
ma wifi "A
he was doing ''nothing.' The answer.
seemed to satisfy Whittlei in no mark
ed degree and he commanded him to
throw up his hands. The fellow obey
ed Instantly and as he did so his
bundle dropped to the ground.
Johnston meanwhile had started III
pursuit of the second man, who had
aarted down the alley disappearing
IN the darkness. Johnston was not
armed and he could not stop the llee-
Ing man. Whittle was afraid 20 fire
after him. for the danger of hitting
Johnston was great. 1t was in this way
that the second man escaped
AS Whittle seized his prisoner and
made a hasty examination OF his
hnudle ne was convinced that he had
no ordinary prisoner. The contents OF
the bundle showed him that his man
was safe cracker. and a professional 4
at that.
Whittle took his man to the Murray
Jail. Then the bundle was examined
ana Marshal Ntauss summoned. The
bundle was found to contain heavy
quilt in which was wrapped an iron
bar, two wood bits. drill bit. hack
saw and other professional tools.
FIND MORE TOOLS.
After lodging their man in Jail,
furtiler examination of the rear of the
bank was undertaken In a dark cor
ner was found a satchel containing
soap, candles. fuse, caps, a steel linn.
mey two cold chisels. two big money
sacks, overalls, canvas gloves, a roll OF
cotton, two syringes for feeding
soup''into the safe and complement
of the most advanced type of safe
blowers tools. I5g 1921
Tie investigation continued sunda.
and the discovery of the tunnel was
1Eade then. Quite a pile of bricks
had been taken from the wall of the
building adjoining the bank and en-
trance to the bank WAS only a matter
Of few minutes work. A heavy quilt
was spread on the floor to deaden the
sound OF the falling bricks. The walls
AFRO is inches thick and the bricks are
laid in cement. notwithstanding this,
the men had a good sized hole In the
wal. and would soon have been in the
building and at work on the job.
The bank vault and the safe con-
tanned in it We're the repositories of the
hanks funds, amounting to several
thousand dollars.
MISSING MAN DESCRIBED.
Tht description Of the missing man
has heen furnished to Marshal Mauss
by City Engineer Joseph Timer OF
Murray. He saw Stevens and his COM
Uan:or on two occasions and they at
the time asked him the way to the
Flo Grande depot and to Park City.
Tic was attracted to the men strongly
because OF their peculiar actions aud
the description furnished ismost COM
Ilcte.
stevens Is now in the county Jail IN
this CITY. He refuses to talk and moth 4
ing has been learned from him. His
appearance convinces the officers that |
they have desperate man in GUS
today.
To the Murray officers Stevens said
he was from Maine, but that he came
to this state only short time ago from
Colorado. He says his companion is
barber out of work. but that he had |
nothing to do with the robbery. The |
county shcriff's office is making an in
restigation of Stevens record. Sheriff |
Emery is convinced from his clothing