The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-10
WHITNEY GIRL
IS CAT TURED
Woman Principal in Diehl Dia.
mond Robbery Under Arrest
at Memphis.
CAUGHT AFTER CHASE
COVERING SEVERAL STATES
Pinkertons Expect Capture Of
Her Alleged AccOmplice,
EX-COnyict, Soon.

Gladys Doyle. alias Gladys whitney,
charged with the theft of $4,000 In un-
cut diamonds from j. b. Diehl. u travel
ing representative OF Charles Watham G.
Co, wholesale jewellers OF Denver. in this
city September ., Is under arrest at
Memphis. Tenn. according TO Associated
Press dispatches and ndYices received
by the Pinkerton bureau here from
Memphis about ] o'clock this morning.
William r. WiIlsie, resident superJn-
tcndent of the Pinlkerton agency. received
the news of the woman's capture i'll a
Memphis police force. which made tho
arrest at the instance Of the Pinkerton
force. The woman's victim is at Den
yer now, but he has been informed OF
City at once. Mr. Wilsie said this
morning that requisition papers will be-
applied for Immediately and that the
woman Will be returned TO Salt Lake
tradition can be accomplished,
The woman is supposed to have had
an accompllce In. the person of Walter
w Perry. but while the Pinkertons here
believe that Perry accompanied the Doyle
woman to Memphis. followed her
closely and expected his capture with
nothing to this effect In the Memphis
dispatches OF this morning, Perry's ar
rest however. is expected each hour
Sensational Robbery.
The Doyle woman, who is only a slip
of girl. was the principal, II is al
legged. In one of the biggest and most
sensational diamond robberies in the in
termountaIn west in many. years. Dieh1
met the girl on the street here the night
OF September l, aud. as sine. Is decidedly
charms. He took her TO the Rathskeller
at Second South and Main streets and
there the pair met several other men
and the entire parry H, went to the Metre Metre,
The woman piled her intended Victim
with liquor. and eventually. 1t Is said,
Induced him TO go to "A room With her.
When Dlehl awakened in the morning tho
diamonds were gone. as was the Doylo
| woman. Az an unlutentional souvenir
of the nights occurrence Diehl retained
one of the girfis silk hose.
The police and the PinkertoD agency
here were notified OF the robbery, and
then began a chase that traversed eight
or ten states, some OF them two or three
sand miles. The Pnkertons were only
few hours behind the girl in several
Instances, but she eiuded them every
time until Friday night.
On Way to Races.
Superintendent willsie says that the
TO Denver and then crossed down TO
Texas, Then she went to Little Rock.
Ark, and from there to New Orleans.
| Then she doubled back TO Memphis, at
which place she was captured. on her
| way to Jacksonville. Fla, TO attend tho
races being run there now.
THE Doyle girl has sister, Clara
Doyle. in the stockade here now, Super
intcndcnt Wilsie says The Doyle fam
| lily lived at Big Timber. Mont, for sew
eral years. The girl under arrest at
Memphis went to Portland, Or, from
there, Superintendent Willslo says, en-
tered the tenderlon district and was
driven out of the city, coming 10 Salt
Lake soon after.
Perry. her alleged companion. is an
eN-convict Mr.. Wsie says. having
done time In tho Colorado state prison
at Canon city Percy was released on
parole. but LETT the state and is wanted
by the Colorado authorities to COM
plete his sentence.
The diamonds alleged to have been
stolen from Dlehl numbered seventy
The thieves are supposed TO have
fenced them somewhere.