The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-06


came out from behind some trees.
One of them, whom Nebeker describes
as a short man, wearing an overcoat,
yelled: Throw up your hands,"
At the same time he thrust a gun in
| the victims face.
Nebeker threw up his hands and an
other man, taller than the first and
without an overcoat, searched him. The
young man had no money nor other
valuables about him. After ascertain
| ing this fact, the tall man said
/ gruffly:
shed that coat"
Victim Watches Highwaymen.
Nebeker took off his oyercoat and
/ handed it to the man who had been
! searching him. He was then command
ed to go straight ahead. Instead of
! following this injunction, Nebeker went
| diagonally across the street in a north
| easterly direction. Then he turned
about and went back toward town on
/ the north side of the street. He watched
| the hOld-up men walk west to Second
East street, and then saw them turn on
! Second East street. They kept on until
they were about half way between First
and Second South streets. Then they
turned east and entered the block.
| The hOld-up victim Vnen went to the
police station as rapidly as possible. In
! the doorway he met officer c. c. Riley
and told him of the robbery. Riley
went into the station and announced
that there had been a hol0up, and asked
for a plain clothes man to accompany
him in a search for the criminals. De-
tective George Chase volunteered to as
sist him, and the two IeTI the station
with Nebeker. Outside the station it
was decided that Chase and Nebeker
should follow the course pursued by the
highwaymen and that Riley should go
around the block the other way.
Officer Riley turned south on State
street. At about the middle of the
block he met the two highwaymen. 1t
is presumed that he recognized them
from Nebeker's description and from
the fact that one of them carried an
overcoat. He placed them both under
arrest and started toward the police
station. He had not gone far when the
| people standing across the street saw a
scuffling, Immediately followed by two
shots.
1t was evident that Riley had taken
hold Of each of the robbers by an arm.
The one whom he was holding with his
left arm jerked away before they had
gone far and, drawing his revolver,
pressed its muzzle close to Riley's back
the gutter and fell. AS he went down
the murderer fired another shot.
| The first bullet entered the body on
the left side of the back, ranged dag
Onally upward through the body, per-
fOrating the heart and both lungs 1t
left the body near the right armpit, and
went through the muscles of the right
arm. The bullet was found in the off
GERS coat sleeve. The other bullet
| struck the officer in the calf of the leg
as he fell.
Murderer Runs East.
The man who did the shooting ran
east through the alley, and the other
man dropped Nebekers overcoat, which
he was carrying, and ran across the
street through the Orpheum crowd and
to Commercial street, where he disap-
peared.
Policeman Young, who was within a
half block of the scene of the murder,
hurried to the place where it occurred.
Several people from across the street
had preceded him. When he got there
Riley was lying face downward in the
street gasping for breath. with blood
pouring from his wounds. With the
assistance Of Others, he carried him to
the emergency hospital.
DR.. W. F. Beer was close at hand, and
he hurried to the police station. He
found that Riley was beyond medical
aid. Before there was time to dress his
| wounds the officer had expired.
All of the day policemen were called
from their homes and put in plain
clothes to operate under the direction
of George Sheets, chief of detectives, in
the search for the murderer. A thor
| Ough search was made of the American
House and other places of like charac-
ter, but no trace of either OF the hold-up
men could be found. All of the men
were then detailed to search the rail-
road yards and to prevent the escape
of the murderers by train.
| James Hardman, driver Of a street
f1usher on State street, gives a valuable
clue to the identification of the murder
ers. He says shortly before the shoot
ing they hurried north on State street
through the water he was spraying on
the street. 1t is probable that the shoes
and the lower part of the trousers of
both men are very wet
Il was driving my husher near the
corner Of State and Second South
streets" said Mr.. Hardman, when two
men came running around the corner
They came west on Second South street
on the north side of the street, and
turned north on the east side Of the
street Both men were running. One
of them had an overcoat on his arm.
Witness to Murder.
L cried to them to look out for the
water, but they did not STOP and ran
right through the spray After they
had gone a short way they were stopped
by another man, who turned and start
ed to walk north with them. 1t looked
to me as though the third man was
walking between the two whom 1 saw
first, and was holding them by the
arms. Then there appeared to be a little
scuhling and a shot was fired. / shut
off my water and started toward the
| place. I saw one man fall into the
street, and as he did So the man FREE
another shot and then turned and rar
north through the alley. 1 didn't set
where the other man went to-
Mrs. West who rooms at the LUXOR
hotel, was walking along State stree
within a few feet Of the principals il
the shooting when the murder occurred
She was very frightened, but in a gen
eral way verifies the story of the othel
eyewitness.
During the greater portion of the time
since Officer Riley has been in the city
he has been employed by the residents o.
Brigham street as a special nightWatch
man. He was employed as such at the
time of the murder and had merely
dropped into the police station in connec
ton with his Brigham street work wheI
he was informed of the holdup and vol
unteered to assist in the capture of tn,
robbers OFFICER Riley was also employed
as a special policeman at the Utah stat.
fair this week. At VariO11S firoaS he no.