The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-30
SALT LAKE AND
STATE NEWS
BOTH WILL PLEAD
GUILTY TOMORROW

Salt Lake. July 29.-Anxiously will
ing to plead guilty and glad to accept
five year term In the state prison
John H. Cummings and w. o. Rose
will be arraigned In Judge Bowman s
court tomorrow morning at o'clock
on the charge of attempted robbery.
The charge upon which the two men
Will be arraigned tomorrow will be
the assault upon and attempted bold-up
OF Cashier d. +. Sweet of the Pullman
company. committed In the stairway of
the Commercial club building last Fri
day morning while he was carrying
$1,000 of the company's funds.
Although Rose, and perhaps Cum
mings, have been implicated through
evidence and confessions or have been
suspected of completely in dozen
other crimes, the most notable of
which are the hold-up of the Utah Hot
Springs. the Bamberger depot at Og-
den. the Japanese noodle restaurant at
ogden and perhaps the Bingham sn-
loon robbery, these charges will not
be pressed at the present time, mainly
owing TO the inability of some OF the
principals TO identify the men
With the passing of Rose and Cum
mings into the hands of the court for
punishment for their acknowledged
crime. much of the mystery of the late
crimes in and about Salt Lake and Og'
den has been cleared away.
Within two hours after the arrest of
the two men last Friday as the sus-
poets In the Cashier Sweet hold-up,
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and detective on the BamberGer road,
weakened and made his confession.
Within another hour or two Rose. in
police vernacular came through and
admitted his guilt.
After that, however, Rose became
the Sphinx, and Cummings, who still
protests that the Sweet hold-up was
his first offense. was the talkative,
and as the chum and companion OF
Rose for the last eight or ten months,
gave much information regarding the
husky athlete who had the nerve to go
on the mat with Gotch, the champion
wrestler
Cummings, In his daily interviews in
the star chamber sessions of the
police department has told much
story he first became acquainted with
Rose early in the year while the two
were occupying adjoining rooms in the
Y. NJ. C. A. building 1t was on June
5. however. that he first learned that
Rose was living the life OF a desper-
ado. That was the time Of the hold
up and robbery Of the Japanese noodle
restaurant in ogden, and Rose had
taken Cummings into his confidence
by telling him of the details OF the
hold-up. Then later Rose had told
Cummings of various other escapades.
including a sensational affair In Can
ada, and other jobs done in the Uni
ted States
According to Cummings, on July 8,
the day before the Bamberger depot
robbery Rose had told him of the plan
for the hold.up of the agent, Rose
had said that he had been TO Ogden
that day to prepare things, and that
one Of the things he had accomplished
was to secure the agents revolver and
remove the bullets from the cartrid-
gcs. With this accomplished 1t was
to be easy sailing since the agent
would give no resistance. Then, ac-
cording to Cummings. Rose went to
Ogden the next day, the day of the
robbery, and then the following morn
ing returned to his room in the Y NJ
c. A building
While telling Cummings then. that
the Bamberger depot had been held
up and robbed Rose. however, refused
to admit that he had taken part in
the affair Sull. according to Cum
mings. Rose displayed considerable
amount OF money and he thought this
was peculiar when Rose had been
broke" for two or three weeks be.
fore, and had not been working.
Cummings also gave as the story
from Rose the complete detail of the
hold-up of the Japanese restaurant in
ogden Many other tips" 1t Is TO be
but the local police handling the case
find themselves baffled in spite OF
the Confessions" by the fact that
the very men who could identify the
principals IN the various robberies
are not sure of their men now
While the government authorities
are still the trail with the eNpecta-
tion of connecting at least Rose with
the Utah Hot Springs robbery, the
two men viii some up tomorrow and
take their chance ON the plea of guilty
to the attempt TO rob Cashier ID. f.
Sweet.
That Rose and Cummings did not
hesitate TO stoop 10 the petty even
while taking the chance on the dar-
ing was brought to light today on the
return TO F. f. McGurrin of a safety
box stolen from his offices some time
ago, After the arrest of the two men.
and in the search of their rooms at
the Y. NJ. c. a. building the box was
found in the room occupied by Cum
mings. The box contained nothing
but cancelled bank checks and papers
of no value except to Mr.. McGurrin.
The supposltlop is that Cummings
and Rose while working as solicitors
for morning newspaper had entered
the office and seeing the chance had
Sneaked the box thinkinP if contained