The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-10

During the past two months, the long
and short holdups have been marked
figures in police circles through the num-
Der of daring robDeries committed. Their
description tallies with that of the men
who held up the Wandamere street car
about three weeks ago and a few nights
later robbed q conductor on a Waterloo
car. Following this robbery, the Warm
Springs saloon was entered and robbed BY
three men who answer the description
ia q general way Of the men now in jail.
The sheriff's office arrested Richard W.
Head following the hOldup on the Wan
damere car line Tuesday night and be
iieve that he is an accomplish of the men
arrested yesterday.
About four weeks ago the Schramm-
johnson drug store No 2, on South Main
street was robbed by the highwaymen,
who operated early In the evening under
the glare Of electric lights. At least a
dozen individual hOldupS are credited to
their performance by jumping from one
section Of the city to another on success
sive nights. Their description is the same
as that given in each case by the victims.
who were sometimes assaulted in addi-
ton to being held up
Victim Identifies Robbers.
Charles A. Birteh, proprietor of the
George Bess saloon, who Tuesday night
looked down into the revolver barrel
held in the hands Of Fisk, the shorter Of
the two, was summoned to the county
jail after the arrest yesterday afternoon.
He had but glanced at Jacobson and Fisk
when a smile lit up his face.
''They are the men who held me up,
you have certainly got them" said Birtch
as he nodded to the sheriff. Even If they
were brothers Of mine could not be more
Then he studied the two. ''That man,
the shorter one" he continued, pointing
toward Fisk, is the burglar who pointed
the revolver In my face and told me to
throw up my hands
"And that one" he went on, sis the
man who leaped over the bar in my sa-
loon, opened the cash register and took
out the money" pointing to Jacobson"
J. A. Shaffer, 1850 South West Temple
street. a miner and dismantier of old
buildings was in the saloon talking TO
Birtch when the latter was held up, and
was ordered to turn his face to a wall.
He positively identified the hOldups, as
did J. II. Schwartz, POO South West Tenn
pie street who was also in the saloon
and got a good look at the yeggmen.
A Clever Scheme.
shaffer was a party to .cleverly de-
Vised scheme, engineered by Sheriff JO-
seph c. Sharp, which led to the arrest Of
Jacobson and Fisk. He had the robbers
clearly pictured I'm his mind and described
them in detail. Deputy Sheriffs COrless,
EddingtOn and Sam DOWse were assigned
to search the immediate premises of the
saloon in company with Shaffer, Sheriff
Sharp being convinced that the hodups
were either in hiding in that locality or
had made 1t their nome.
All day Wednesday the deputy sheriffs,
with Shaffer at their side, talked with
residents Of that district. giving desCTip-
lions of the robbers. Toward night it
was learned that two men, one tall and
the other short who lived in a little hovel
in Culley avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth South and Fifth and Sixth East
streets, had left their home early in the
evening, returned during early hours of
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