Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-12
TO LAND
BOLD H|GHWAYMAN
Sheriff's Force Takes Up Trail Of
Men Police Failed to
Land.
ROUND UP HoBoES
attempts Made to Have Victims Idcn-
tiry Migrants Who DO Not Answer
Descriptions Given.

Sheriff Joseph C. sharp is close on
the TRAIN OF the two reckless highway
men. who. after committing a dozen
bold holdups in salt Lake city and
successfully eludlng the Incompetent
efforts OF chief Of Police Barlow to
capture them. appeared AT Midvale,
Thursday night and held up the Sean
dinavian house there. holding Andrew
Nelson. the bar tender and. big
crowd Of mon at bay and robbing 10 Of
their pay checks, besides getting away
with 1920 from the cash register In the
bar room
The two holdups entered the place
with masks. The bar room was crowd
ed with men who work al the smeters
at Bingham Junction. many of whom
had not cashed their monthly pay
checks. Payment has been stopped in
local banks on checks from the United
states smetcr.
1t Is almost certain that these are
the same men who have committed
numerous daring hold-ups throughout
this city recently. chief OF Police
Barlow has been utterly unable 10
cope with the situation, and his fall
ure TO appreheud the robbers has
brought carnival OF crime upon the
city as the hold-ups and burglars are
take advantage of this city In its
helplessness.
All over the city. men OF different
political affiliations are talking over
the newly suggested scheme of form
ing citizens committee. as Il is
feared that the necessity for a civic
organization for the suppression Of
crime Is imperative, in view OF the
fact that the police are not equal TO
the emergency.
The situation in Salt Lake city today
resembles that which prevailed In San
Francisco. when the citizens. outraged
beyond endurance by the incompetency
of the chief Of police took matters
into their own hands and organized
great vigilance committee 10 clean the
city Of criminals OF all kinds
ROBBERS GROW BoLDER.
Night after night. bold robberies
have been committed with such
audacity as to leave the victims fairly
speechless. Hold-ups have camly walk
ed into drug stores. in front OF which
brilliant arc lights shone. with pedes-
trians walking by and policemen saun-
tering along the block, without moles-
tation. The crisis has been reached
within the last three days II app
that the same men turned three diff
ferent "tricks" early Thursday morn
ing and although chief OF Police Bar
low was Immediately notified, his
methods have been so incompetent and
his directions TO his men 80 obtuse that
no captures have been made.
Stung TO desperation by his failure to
hand the real .crirninals, chief Barlow Is
herding every poor old tramp in town
into the city prison. and then calls the
victims OF the numerous hOldups In to
try 10 Identify the friendless hOboes
who are held n detinue.
For instance. two unfOrtunates. who
gave their names as Thomas McCrow
and George Edwards, We're grabbed at
l2. As o'clock this morning and held as
suspects in the city prison. Chief OF
Police Barlow thought he had the two
robbers who held up the Rheims broth
ers motOrman and conductor OF the |
Wandamere streetcar, which was held
up al the end Of that line shortly after
midnight, Thursday morning But the |
Rheims brothers We're called Ia this /
morning and fatty stated mat McCrow !
and Edwards were not the hoIdups and |
that neither answered the description OF |
the holdups who robbed them chief !
Of Police Barlow was elated at the cap |
ture OF McCrow and Edwards. because !
one OF the mon happened 10 have a |
bloody handkerchief la his pockets
when searched at the police station
The chief thought that they were the
men who had held up the Wandamere
car. a. IL was known that one OF tho
latter had cut his hand In smashing
pane Of glass in the store OF Henry
Massard. just opposite the park. a short
time before the holdup OF the streetcar
men occurred.
SHERIFF AFTER THBM.
Edwards had a badly injured hand.
but IL developed that 1t had been hurt
by the blow from heavy hammer. and
IL was not cut. To make the case
against Edwards and McCrOw more alb
surd, the Rheims brothers and George
Cox, an employe az the Wandaneae
greenhouse, who witnessed the robbery.
all we're brought In and after closely
crutinizing the prisoners. emphsticauy
declared that they we've not the guilty
men.
Sheriff sharp and his deputies have
lost no time in starting after the rob
beers who have been terrorizng Salt
Lake city, however and though Chief
Of Police Barlow has been unable 10
capture them. D. is almost certain that
the sheriff and his men win soon appre
hend them.
According 90 advices received from
Marshal Stokes OF MldValc the two
holuups wore masks when they enter
ed the scandinavian house. They SEE
cured about $500, including the money
taken from the cash register and nine
men who were standing in the bar
room. one robbcr wore a regular black
mask, while the other had dark
handkerchief over his face one rob-
Der ls described as being tall. light
complexion. stoop-shoul dered. with a
malformation on the neck The other
holdup la said % have been tan. dark
conplexionod and he had only one
eve.
Depuy sheriff IRA Becksead captured
man, who gave his name as James
Jones and lodged him boz jall a Mid.
vale as sufpec.