Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24

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1; cial club building in West Tenn !.
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Through confessions made by and
evidence. gathered against John l Il.
s Cummings and w. @ Rose, arrested ,a,
Yesterday within three hours fter the
sensational attempt to rob asher
Sweet of the Pullman company, these
crimes and 1t is thought half a dozen
others will be laid at the door Of the
two well5dressed. genteel looking fell.
lows who have made their home at the
Y. Nj G. A. building for the past year.
The two men are in themselves the
sensation OF the criminal record for.
years past. With crudity. they have;
yet shown a degree of cunning and.
nerve that equals that of Joe Sullivan
or Abe Majors. Z
z With the weakness Of the desperate
criminal when fairly cornered both
men after two hours, confinement and
less than half an hour In the Sweat
Z box" confessed to- the attempted hold
z up of Cashier Sweet. The police were
hardly prepared, however for The later
admissions and developments. and it
was a surprise to the department to-
learn that they had bagged the men
who held up the Hamburger depot on
\ July 3, and had been implicated in a
number of other Ogden robberies.
EVIDENCE IN ROOMS.
That the men, living under the guisez
Of responsibility and above suspicion
BY inhabiting the Y. NJ. g. a. build
Ing, had followed a career of crime
4 Tor several months past, was Develop
ed both in their confessions and in
Z evidence found in their rooms.
Their connection with the Bamber-s
& Fer Ogden depot robbery was first sus-
pected through finding in the room oc-
rupiefl by Rose a pencil-diagram.
drawn on the back OF Bemberger
railroad letter head, showing the loca-
ton of the o.. S. L. and berger
aepots and the streets for radius.
4 Of a half-a-mile. The diagram showed
that the robbery had been carefully
planned as to the method of attack
and escape.
1t was through Cummings, however,
that tho facts of the Bamberger rob
4 berry We're obtained. Under the third
z degree he told how Rose had plan
Z to acknowledge that he had a part In
K, intimated that he had been pre-
: sent. According to Cummings the
first plan had been to Waylay. Agent
Cook while he was on his way home Il
4 Knowing Cooks habit of carrying the
company funds home with him. Rose.
had followed the agent every night for
+ week. but something unforeseen al
ways INTERVIEWED. Then on the night
of July A, when the receipts We're
heavy, 1t was decided to abandon the
Z plan of waylaying the agent and in-
stead hold him up in his office. &;
CUNNINGHAM ROBBERY.
According to Cummings, Rose also
committed the hold-up Of the japanese
restaurant in Ogden on June 4, and
from information gained by the police
1t is expected that Rose and perhaps
Cummings will be connected with the
brutal assault made upon NJ. II. Cum
bingham, the Ogden correspondent or
The Herald, who suffered the loss of an
rye from the blows made by his as
hilant. The police, too, expect to
connect Cummings and Rose with the
Utah Hot Springs robbery.
Both men yesterday made a complete
confession regarding the attempted
hold-up of Cashier Sweet Both were
Examined separately and then together,
: but their stories We're to the same eff
+ !ect. They had watched Cashier Sweet
2 tois d WEI, hiioWiHS MS naplt oil IS
collecting the company's receipts from
The various Offices in the morning. Yes
lerday morning they followed on his
,our to the D. 81 r.. g.. Salt Lake Route
and Oregon Short Line Offices, notic-$
ing the amount of HIS collections, and
then hurried ahead of him to the Com
nercial club building, where the Pull
nan Offices are located. They waited
IN the stairway until he. entered the 4
5ynQJ.s and 1T ft,.,%r
4 WOULD graphic with him while Cum
rings secured the money. The resist
Ince OF Sweet and the sudden appears
ince of Graham. the milkman. upset
heir plans, and after Cummings had
!elled Sweet with his revolver they
3 both took fright and fed.
Deputy Butler of Ogden has identi-
led the men as the participants In the
sobbery of the Ogden Hot Springs July