The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
POLICE BUILD UP
MURDER THEORY.
SIeuthS Say They Have Traced
Suspects to American
House Lair.
IDENTIFY THE PRISONERS
MANY PERSONS SURE THEY ARE
sLAYERs OF OFFICER.

r. E. Kennedy and L. e. DTislCen sup
posed murderers of Officer 9. G. Riley,
are known TO have been in Room A Of
the American house on Commercial street
half an hour after the murder and while
the police were attempting TO force the
door they climbed down the fire escape
and disappeared in the maZes of Plum
alley. Frank Woods, d giant negro, fer
whom the police are searching in Poca-
tello locked and held the door while the
men escaped. Later Woods made his own
getaway and, although he was traced
to Pocatelo he is still at large.
Fritz Ertman, proprietor of the Amerl-
can house, may be held to face a charge
Of hindering the police in a search of his
lodging house.
Detectives are working to complete the
record of the movements of Kennedy and
Drisken from the morning Of Oct. TO
the time OF their arrest in Ogden last
Monday Mrs, w. a, Rector, prOprietress
of a rOOming house on West First South
street. identified the men yesterday as
the two who came to her house Tues
day night after the murder, took rooms
and left early Wednesday morning. Mrs
RectOr's identifiCatiOns IS considered
valuable link in the chain Of evidence
The police say that they have traced
the men from the vicinity Of the murder
TO the American house from there into
the dens of Plum alley and thence TO
the rOOmlns house of Mrs. Rector. The
police feel certain of the movements OF
the men, until they reached the Rector
lshed that the men who left there We'd
nesday morning were the same that Were
seen on a freight train between here and
Ogden, and later arrested in Ogden, then
the Grain of Circumstantial evidence viii
be complete First degree murder charges
viii follow the establishment of this
theory.
Identify the Suspects.
Meanwhile the mass of positive evidence
furnished by eye witnesses Of the muir
NJ M i'm al
titled Kennedy and Driskeu, is growing
and the police say they are absolutely
certain they have the right men.
That the two suspects committed long
string of hOld-ups in Salt Lake before
the murder Uf Riley is also the belief of
George Sheets. chief of detectives. He
says he has evidence sufficient to convict
them on charges for which they could
be given at least twenty years if they
are acquitted of the murder charge.
The nerve exhibited by Kennedy in
joining his pal at the American house
half an hour after the murder is cOnsid-
eIed remarkable by the police 1t is
known that Driskell, who ran west across
State street and down OrpheUm alley,
after the murder went straight to the
American house. Kennedy, who is sup
posed to be The man who fired the fatal
Shots ran east into the middle of the
block bounded by State and Second East
Persons have been found who saw him.
or someone closely resembling him. come
out of an alley east of the Grand the
atre five minutes after the murder and
cross the street to the south side of Sec
Ond South. They say he deliberately
walked west on Second South street as
far as the Wilson hotel where he turned
up Commercial street and into the AmeTi-
can house The police are certain that
Frank Woods, the negro, was a pal of
Kennedy and DriskelI. At any rate, the
police are convinced that the two men
met in Woods room and that they were
still in the room when the police began
searching the lodging house. As a squad
OF bluecoats tried the door of Room A.
they found il locked and heard sounds
within. Before it could be broken down
two men and a negro had escaped. There
are witnesses who have told of seeing
the men enter Woods room.
Captain N. d. Young of the Baltimore
police force yesterday notified Chief Of
Police Barlow that the late Officer c. c.
Riley disappeared mysteTiOusly from Bal
timOTe several years ago. Captain Young S
letter said that none of Riley's Baltimore
acquaintance had heard from him until
news of his murder in Salt Lake was re-
CeiVGd.
Chief Barlow has written for more de-
tails concerning the dead officer.
The fund for the relief of the widow
and child OF Riley has grown TO 1924 p,
which viii he turned over to Mrs. Riley
some time next week