Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-30
H0[DUPS CONFESS
70 MANY GRIMES
wl,ard Thompson and William
ednuhurst Clear Up Mystery
OF Reign Of Terror.
THEY IMPLICATE THIRD MAN
n.,.,lcd Account Of Many Robberies,
Rurglarics and IIoldups Committed
In salt Lake Last Winter.

ina, sheriff sharp and his deputies
are to be congratulated on the cap
49,, n Willard Thompson and William
n.rgharst may be concluded from tho
a., that both men last evening signed
,,nfesslon which clears up 25 bur
~,.,ies holdups and petty thefts THAI
s,ned the police of this city during
,so regn OF crime which was fea-
,,,,a during the spring and winter
ybs Confession was made and signed
a.. hoth cunvicts at the state prison
NJ, night Thompson yesterday pleads
"a suiity 10 the Gift House hoidup and
,as sentenced 10 20 years while hi
n,rtner in crime who had already con
,rssed preceded him to the penltentiaiy
Ind 4 doing his II years
n,e Of the peculiar features of the
seminal history Of these two men l.
~ fsrt that they committed their rob-
80 and crimes under the very noses
- ,bs city and county officials, feeling
sssnred perhaps that the excellent lep-
ytanons Of their families would hold
rem free from suspicion. Ever since
H. .hool days, Bringhurst has shown
ming for fights and quarrels; bu.
S.,de nom the fact that he was regard
., =, ruugh and OF mean disposition he
Was thought TO be straight and re-
spec able.
A.er numerous crimes had been com,
mltted and the officers got scent on
the real culprits. the two men have
teen lodging from one relatives home
to another; and after the capture of
pringhurst at ogden, Thompson found
h necessary to seek the dark woods al
oregon and the isolated towns of Calf
,orna. At last he decided to visit
friends in Butte and walked into tire
hands OF the law.
CASHIER IN BAD WAY
1t Is sad but interesting sequel 70
the Layton bank robbery that the
cashier. Lawrence Ellison, who was
taken TO the bank in his night clothes.
& suffering from nervous prostration IN
Canada and may never entirely recover
from the shock received on that occa-
sion when two men appeared at hf-
home came right through "A window
glass and half dragged him to the bank
where they debated whether they shoul1
hl him because the time vault lock
would not permit him to open up ths |
safe
In the confession both Thompson ana |
Bnnghurst impllcate a third man |
whose name Is for the present Withheld |
By the sheriff as he too may be brought |
% Justice II may be that the two men /
were Influenced 70 make a clean sweep |
# their past robberies In order to take
public interest away from the Sorensen |
murder IN which they are thought to |
have been implicated.
THE Confession
The confession made at the peniten.
lay last evening Is as follows:
Thompson went into jew store on
Second South near the corner OF West
Temple Brnghurst stood on the drug
store corner watching and watched In
me alley hole was cut out in the
olck door and the bolt drawn. Among
other things we got s. apiece In cash
ana ] got an overcoat and a pair OF
sloes that were too small for the other
boys
thompson ana Bringhurst held up
me Wandamerc car and the little store
.tdI me END ~ the Wandamere line.
we broke in the same evening.
we also held up the Waterloo car
hd We held up the Second West ear
y Nt' broke into a saloon at Fifth
'ol,h and state.
thompson and a man by the name
y - broke into a saloon west ON
'luih Temple.
thompson and Bringhurst held up
.e Jew that runs the Mercantile m
'a'heht mouse. We took a book away