The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-26
@ LSE n | s A
c R A Z Y
MAN
SHERIFF BARLOW WILSON RE-
TURNS HOME FROM OMAHA.
SelfConfeesed Murderer of Deputy
Sheriff Clark Is irresponsible
Crank Writes a Letter.

Sheriff Barlow Wilson returned from
Omaha this morning. where he went
TO investigate the alleged confess
sion made by one Charles Olsen re-
Gardins the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Seymour l.. Clark at Ulntah last No
vember. Referring 10 his trip and
the results thereof Sheriff Wilson
said.
The self-confessed murderer of
Deputy Sheriff Clark, now in Jail In
Omaha. is simply dope f1end and
crazy man who has read OF the Uin-
tab tragedy and imagines himself the
murderer of Deputy SnerIT Clark. He
WAS formerly employed In the kitchen
OF the Knutsford hotel and In the
Vienna cafe in Salt Lake and was
known in both of those places as
homeless crank and dope mend. He
confessed to me that his real name
was Knute Aabel and that he had been
an inmate of an asylum in Denmark,
He knew absolutely nothing of the de-
tails of the Clark murder and when
questioned closely admitted that he
was working on the Western Pacific
grade in Nevada last November when
the crime was committed and Clark
was shot TO death. The man is q hop
flend and smokes and eats 'Yenshee
whenever he can set the dope He
worked Up q reputation In Omaha
when drunk. By whipping a couple Of
men aud when the irons were placed
on him by Omaha officers, he snapped
them In two and played the 'bad-man
act successfully, afterwards confessing
to the Uintah murder. The man Is
crazy at times and is suffering from
two large indentations In his skull
that are responsible. with dope, for
his present mental condition. I did
not want him and the Omaha authori-
ties will turn him over to federal Of
ficials for deportation TO Denmark.
where he perhaps escaped from an
asylum or a sanitarium.
Another Crank,
The following letter, evidently flWm
another crank, was received at the
sherlff's office this morning.
Sheriff, Uintah-It is sure anus
ing TO see how nice Olsen confessed
to know about the Clark murder.
Clark got plugged for butting in our
private biz Now, Old Scout. / don't
know Olsen. but l know who killed
Clark. and If that chaw In the Ogden
yards suddenly leaves for a warmer
climate, don't blame Olsen. Old Scout
of the Y Il. r, R. Is also billed for
sudden disappearance. also family
u Denver. We viii put some glycer-
Inc In a sky rocket and blow the whole
works to hell and cross the telephone
wires with the trolley wire and can
arrange to bum the stock or poison
the water or put liquid glycerine in
the gasoline tank OF the automobile.
There is ono hundred different ways
TO blow them up - -. Ihere
is about 10000 members. II YOU catch
ono It is so arranged that he could
only give away three others. because
the organizer only puts four In each
company and the instructions come
from an unknown source When You
read this I will be about 1000 miles
from Ogden and ! defy YOU TO catch
one or any of The gang,
(Signed GLYCERlNB c. mem-
Der OF the night glycerine squad.
The letter bears no date line and
was received at the Ogden postotIicc
at 1870 p. M, Wednesday An effort
Is being made By officers 10 trace the
source OF the letter. which II Is be-
lieved was written by crazy or
drunken man.