Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-23
ALLEGED HOLD.UPS
FIGHT EXTRADI1ION

After futile fight lasting nearly
a week in an effort to extradite
Bryan O'Hara and Victor Clors,
who We're arrested in Michigan by
Plnkerton detectives on suspicion
of being the bandits who heldup the
Overland Limited at Reese twelve
miles west Of Ogden on the night
of January 2 Sheriff Joseph C.
Sharp. acting as special represent
ative of Governor William Spry.
returned to Salt Lake early last
night from Lansing, Mich.
= Sheriff Sharp says that bcause
O'Hara and Clore are natives of
Michigan and connected with
prominent families every effort is
being rade to prevent their
extradition. The family of O'Hara
especially is influential in Michigan
1T is said>and while Clure is not so
we'll connected he has friends who
a'e attempting to bring about his
release on writs Of -habeas corpus.
O'Hara and Clore stoutly deny any
connection with the train hold up
and claim that they we're asleep in
the Combination rooming house at
Bingham when it occurred.
During our hearing before
Governor Osborne of Michigan
March l3. in reference to the
extradition of the prisoners said
Sheriff Sharp. Attorney Fred A..
Farr representing O'Hara, declared
that it would be impossible for the
accused men to get anything like a
fair trial were they permitted to
be eXtradited.
Engineer E. D. Rouse of the
Overland Limited, who looked
j1wn the gun barrel of one of the
highwaymen bays that he is POSITIVE
thlt O'HAra was his assailant.
Daring the h1ldup he looked at
the nan h. says was O'Hara nearly
an hoIr anil should be familiar
vita features which he seemed TO
readily identify.
"Wnen O'Hara was first con.
frontcd by Engineer Rouse and
Conductor W. A. Middleton he
tIrned nale an shivered ncrvOusly.
k1us" sec Ms mDrc certain that he
is riEhL in accusing O'Hara of
being the man who held him up
than any vi III n Of a highwayman
| ever saw. This is reasonable,
bee he had an abundance of
Opnnct unity to study him.
"Jr iar the a1yice of counsel and
his brother. who is cashier of the
Aurora National bank of Michigan
O'Hara would not listen to my
suggestions to return to Utah and
clear himself if he was not guilty.
However Clore told me he was
willing to return when ! talked
with him in the county Jail at
Mount Clemencc, Mich. He said
that he could prove an absolute
aIibi. But Sheriff George Harris
wolld not listen to the proposition
permitting Clore TO return voIun-
tarily.
'CIore is more the type of man
who would hold up a train than
O'Hara. Conductor Middleton
am Engineer Rouse did not see
enough of Clore if he we're the
man who assisted in the holdup
and killing Of the negro porter to
warrant attempts at iden tifyins
HIM. they seemed only to recognize
his voice and general appearance.
"The governor suggested sending
peciak:..reDresentatives to " tab to
make ADMINISTRATION Of the robbery
and connections which O'Hara and
Clore might have had with H.. He
informed me that on April IL he
would be ready:to honor the requisi-
ton papers Of Governor Spry if
by that time no successful attempts
had been madesto prove to his
satisfaction that O'Hara an Clore
were innocent Of the holdnp."
While in Michigan Sheriff Sharp