Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-03
THINGS GET INTERESTING.
Harry ]. Robinson and Detective
Who Claims to Be Hired
Fall Out.
%, Conner in the American Party and
A HeInze Man Gets Extreme
ly Busy In Case.

,.o,ion with the Utah National bank
fohhery a substantial addition Is MADE
.aa.v hit it belongs to the hui
,ore Of the chase, rather than to the
uncovering Of new clues.
Charges Of blackmail. counter charges
AZ netty larceny, grating, and through
a. all a throwing of new light into the
history OF sleuthing in Salt Lake, Is
the result OF today's developments
Harry ]. Robinson, an attorney. and
or,ateur detective, with offices in the
Mercantile block, and J. w. Coughiin'
a professional detective, with offices in
the security & Trust building are the
principals in today's developments
other names that figure into the case
are Booth, Lee and Badger, who Cough
I'm saws, he Swallowed at the request OF
Robinson; Joseph Nelson, Howard Car
rett, DOC Londoner. Mr., Strong and MT.
Rich, and Burl Armstrong, reporter,
all of these being Swallowed for Robin
son, who Coughlin says claimed to rep
sent w. S. Mccormick.
This Mr.. Mccormick denies, and says
he has not seen Mr.. Robinson for
year.
FOR WHOM is HE WORKING?
Coughlln now wants TO know for
whom Mr.. Robinson was working ana
why he, whom he says he knows to be
Heinze booster in Butte, and man
with a long and shady record. con-
s3ieuous for exhibiting dark spots OF
petty graft, should so strenuously exert
himself in this case, and then refuse
10 meet his bills
1T li1y tpl1 ROhir1Snf ~ COnpl-
lin in unfolding his story, that in
asking me to follow clues that would
throw suspicion on Joseph Nelson. and
Strong, and Howard Garrett, that he
was following wrong leads, and that l
had leads which would be followed to
success. He was mighty wary about
letting me follow up these matters. and
didn't want to know anything about
them. He tried to make II appear to
me that he was big chief of the
American" party, that he was com
er among them, and that the d
MoTmons were trying to throw sus-
picion on Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Trimmer,
and that he wanted these d Nor
mons Swallowed. 1 Swallowed for him
those he asked me to, and in shad-
owing Doc Londoner head OF the Pink
ertons l found him with Mr.. Londoner
in the Wilson bar, and found that he
remained with him there all night.
pumping him for information, and /
guess he knows all that Londoner
knows"
1T was after this that I refused to
work further on the case without new
leads, and asked for 800 expense money.
Robinson said would have to present
bill so that Mr.. Mccormick would know
where the money had gone.
GENERAL MIDDLE
"a little later I refused to continue on
the case at all and / was asked to
present my claim In full. / did so, and
the bill was not paid. l wrote Mr..
Robinson that IL he didn't pay 1t
would present 1t to Mr. Mccormick.
lie wrote back saying by all means to
do so. and / did so. Mccormick denied
hiring him, and suggested that 1 see
Mr. Adams. I am confident that Robin
son represented Adams, who is a friend
Of Heinze, as Robinson before getting
mixed up in Utah politics was Heinze
booster and an attache OF his on the
Butte Evening News,
This In the main Is the case made
BY Coughlin against Robinson. For his
side Of 1t a story given to morning
PAPER brought out the letter threaten
ing TO turn the reports over to Mr.. Nc
CorniclS and Robinson's answer, to-
gether with summary of the evidence
secured by the detectives.
MR.. McCoRNIcK's VERSION.
when asked today II he knew any
thing Of Coughlin, or his employment
w. $. Mccormick said: mo, do not
| remember one day man coming in
and saying he had been employed on
The case. 1 told him had not seen Mr.
Robinson for year, and had not asked
Mr.. Robinson to employ him. doubt IL
Mr. Robinson represented that | had
employed him, as an attorney. to hire
this aleuth"
BY MIR. NELSON.
This man CoughlIn wrote TO me
asking II l would call to see him, and
stating that he had information TO give
me. / called. and after short inter-
view told him l did not wish to em-
ltoy him, as we already had men
Whom we trusted working on the case"
DOC" LoNDoNER's VIEW.
When asked in regard TO Mr.. Cough
lin who declares that he was for three
years a Pnlterton, j. n, Londoner. as
slslant superintendent, PinkArtons Ma
uonal Detective Agency, said:
do not wish TO make q public
statement concerning Mr. coughlin
other than TO say that he was dis
missed from the Pinkerton service for
attempting to sell Information gath
elea 10 parties other than those en-
lloying him. He was not In the con-
ndence Of the service. but was one OF
MS minor operatives"
THE sLEUTHs EXPERIENCE.
Nh. Coughlin Is a slight built, sand,
.olnpleXloned lrishman. He gives his
record as Sh years In the Plnkerton
service, In which he spent year nnd
months on one case alone, Involving
NgVWoOOi several years In the employ,
mont of jos. a. Walker OF the gov.
unment secret service al Denver, and
Tor four years he worked In Spokane
ie says an old fcud exists between
himself and the Pinkortons, growing
oul ~ the tacl that he ran an opposi
,,oh oillce In Spokane and that II on,
ING resulted In his suing them fo
saOVVO the case being carried to IN,
washington supreme court.
MT coughin told the story OF hi
flnploylAent by Robinson this morn
Ns ir9m its very beginning,