The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-09

calamity overlook The Tribune, The
Tribune got scoopcd., 1t got scooped
by the Herald Republican which pub
lication put it all over The Tribune,
rubbed il IN and crowcd about it, This
is the story the Herald Republican
printed Monday morning-it's g worth
reading:
Diamonds valued at $4,000 worn by two
women guests at the Belmont hotel
aroused tho cupldity of Two men whose
effort 10 obtain possession OF tho gems
about o'clock Sunday morning was
frustrated by George Reeves OF Mueller
g. Reeves. proprictors OF the Belmont. y
policeman was summoned, hut no arrests
were made.
The women had dInod at the College
Inn cafe and were returning to the hotel
when two men accostcd them. Jhe men
followed them TO tho hotel, where they
wore forbidden TO enter. The women had
entered the hotel office when the men
came in and inquired for rooms. 10
escape them the women went INTO the
parlor but the men promptly followed.
One of the women had laid valuable
muff the sofa. One Of the men TOOK
1t and went 10 the st. Ceclle lodging
house. where he put 1t In the bottom OF
q trunk. He then returned 10 the Bel,
mont. BY this time the women missed
the nun. Their accusations that the
men had stolen the muff were so Nehe-
ment that George Reeves was aroused.
Tho men started to leave, but Reeves
detained them. being compelled 10 strike
one of them several times 10 prevent ms
going. policeman was then called
and after some parleying tho man VINO
had tho muff went to the st, Cccile and
| returned with It.
down the owner had been carrying
considerable sum of money and some
diamonds in the mum. Both women
were confident that the men meant 10
hold them up for the valuable gems they
wore but did not get the chance, as me
hotel was 50 close to the heart OF the
city,
So elated was the Herald Republican
that it sounded a long, loud blast on
its own trumpet, for on Tuesday morn,
ing the Herald Republican reproduced
the story which it had printed Monday
morning, only worse.
Thomas Delaney and r. r. Bonner are
| under arrest in the city jail suspected
OF having followed the Misses Marie ana
Wanda Bankirk daughters OF a wealthy
miner at Bingham, bent upon robbing
| them Of diamonds, said TO be valued NJ
$4,000. The Misses Bankirk are guests az
Belmont hotel Saturday night Delaney
and Bonner followed them, taking from
one OF the girls muff valued at $40; as
| told exclusively in YESTERDAY HER
| ALD-REPUBLICAN.
arraigned before Judge Bowman of the
| police court yesterday afternoon 10 an
Swgr T to charge OF PeI ssI taTGy nishy mem
| bers OF the detective department attempt
| ed to gain further information into the
| character OF Delaney and Bonner devJ,. ,b-
young women from whom the mum was
! taken are daughters OF millionaire MN
| er and who were bedecked WIN oldH'3hGs -
| when accosted by the young men. IL ls
| claimed by the Misses Bankirk that they
| have on several occasions been aP,,
preached by Bonner and DELANEY ana ana
| that attempts TO avoid them nave re-
suited In most disagreeablc experiences;
| Marie and Wanda Bank!rk had lunched
Mt the College Inn, and were & on tneir la way
| when Delaney and Bonner. as though IN
waiting at the cafe entrance, steppeu iot
ward. raised their hats and Attempted 10
and the young women walked TO the hoteI
| with all possible haste.
George Reeves, one of the proprletors
| OF the Belmont hotel, came TO the as
| s!stance Of the young women when they
| had been robbed of the mum, ana com
PEELED the men to surrender 1t, Ihey mao
already taken II 10 the ST. Cecile hotel.
| IL was at first thought that Delaney
was the pugiist who has frequently al.
| tracted the attention OF the police b9t
II has been learned that Delaney IN ls tnls
| case is a stranger In salt Lake and ,nat
he arrived here the day that the Banark
girls registered at the Belmont.
Now, mark two things: The Tuesday
story saws .Fas told exclusively IN yes
| terday's Herald Republican, and the
statement that the "Misses Marie and
! wealthy miner at Bingham. Yes, gen
| tie reader, the story was printed ex-
clusively In the Herald Republican, for
no reputable newspaper would PRINT
ANYTHING of the sort. Now, as to the
identity of the daughters of veal
thy Bingham miner.
Wanda "Bankirk'' is, or. perhaps
more correctly, was, the proprietress OF
the Union parlor house. a notorious re-
| Ianupn Her
however, is not Bankirk, but Van Kirk.
Marie was the manager OF the resort
and her name is commonly accepted
TO be Van Kirk also,
in Bingham Canyon people took these
''daughters of a wealthy MINER at
their word when they said they were
ladies, -a-d-i-e-s-LADIES. They often
said so themselves, therefore there was
no good reason to doubt it, seeing that,
under proper conditions, they were up
roariously certain about it. Besides,
they looked the part.
It may be, too, that 'Fthe daughters
of a wealthy Bingham MINER had
$4,000 worth of jcwelry, but if they did,
they kept their gems carefully con-
cealed, for all that the people of Bing-
| ham Canyon ever saw, If they were
interested enough to look at all, was n
wealth of glisteniug glass, and glitter
ing paste, with the possible exception Of
ring or two and q gold watch.
Marie is married, and is the mother
of two children. Until she became a
real lady. she had good and kind
husband, but the ways Of genuine ladies
were not the ways of Marie 8 husband,
nor did he believe they were good ways
for his children. so he ceased TO be
the husband of this lady, who is one
of the daughters of wealthy Bing
ham miner. -
Wanda became real lady at the
| Inndnr ann Of Is and thus she hns