The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-25
Partner of Bringhurst in Sen
sational Robberies About
Salt Lake Is Captured at
Butte and Admits His Guilt.
SHERIFF GOES TO BRING
OUTLAW TO SALT LAKE
Energetic Work of Sheriff
Sharp Results In the Arrest
of the Man Wanted for Many
Crimes in This Vicinity,
LONG SEARCH IS ENDED

w TILBARD THOMPSON, associate
Wv of William Hringhurst In n
series of holdups. including the
attempt Mt robbing the Layton National
bank on the night of Way 20, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon at Butte
Mont.
Contrary to his boast that he would
never he taken altve, Thompson became
dociIe after he found himself In the
clutches of Butte policemen.
In frngmcntnry confession made to
Chief Of Police J. }. Quinn Of the Butte
police department, Thompson admitted
that he was BrinEhurst's nssocinte, and
made no attempt TO deny his connection
with the Layton bank robbery.
He also admitted that he was instf-
gator and leader in the Cliff House
gambling rooms hOidup and robbery
May 20.
Living the life Of characteristic
outlaw, probably imbued into him by
the reading OF dime novels, ThOmpson's
series OF depredations extends over a
period OF nearly two years The cal
endar OF crimes OF which he IL believed
to be guilty is so extensive that It
would be almost impossible TO itemize
| them. They were climaNed by the at
/ tempt upon the Layton National bank,
/ when Thompson began to consider him
self a full-fledged outlaw.
Feared Term in Prison.
The fear of serving a long term in
]
| HIS senses when his partner, Bring
/ hurst. was arrested at the Broom hotel
/ in ogden. on the night Of May 81, by
/ Deputy Sheriffs Axel steele and Samuel
/ howell Then. with lightning rapidity,
| Thompson began his dash to evade au-
| thOrities whor1 he knew TO be close on
his heels. He went west and II was
/ timber districts of central oregon,
/ which are known TO shield much want
| ed criminals.
/ Under the direction of Sheriff Joseph
g. Sharp. vigorous efforts were made
| to follow Thompson His movements
! were systematically traced To the de-
light OF his pursuers. Thompson
| emerged from the secluded districts OF
oregon less than a week after the ar
rest of Bringhurst. Though he had
money. Thompson preferred to beat his
/ way on freight trains, and made slow
| journey southwark. evading, as Tar as
possible. important California points.
| The thought Of being away from
I friends apparently unnerved thompson
/ and he went to Kennett, Cal, where he
was employed I'm a smelter fourteen
months ago. He was not slow in real
| izing his mistake. Sheriff SHARP
learned through his thorough system OF
investigation that thompson was IN
/ Kennett. Deputy Sheriff Jack Corliss,
] who had gone 70 Los Angeles for o. l.
Beardsley. the adulterer, was wired the
information. He made a dash for Ken
nett. but arrived there two hours after
Thompson had departed on passenger
train.
| Corliss successfully traced Thompson
10 Hornbrook. Cal. but. taking a north
ern route. he disappeared For a week
Thompson kept carefully under cover
and it is thought that he spent a day OF
two in Portland, Ore He was next
seen in Seattle. Wash, and only few
days ago information came to the at
tention OF the police OF Spokane, Wash,
thay a man answeriDg the description
| OF Thompson had been about the rail
road yards keeping himself under cover
Good Work by Sheriff
The information that Thompson was
heading east from Seattle caused Sher-
If Sharp to evolve a theory that he
/ would stop in Butte, where he had
friends. Additional photographs were
sent to Chief Quinn Of the Butte police
department, with instructions to equip
| every patrolman and detective with
I1fkenesses Of Thompson. As a result
Thompson had but barely arrived in
Butte before he was placed under ar
rest According to information received
from Chief Quinn last night. ThOmp-
son took his arrest like penitent
Instead OF regarding him as a des-
perado. the Butte chief calls him big
calf"
Thompson and Bringhurst had been
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