The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-17
O'Dell and Lewis to Be Formal
ly Accused Of Staying
Negro Porter.
LACK OF IDENTIFICATION
CAUSES DISAPPOINTMENT
Many Items of Uncertainty En-
ter Into Clues Incident. to
Capture of Suspects.
Special to The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune,
OGDEN. Jan. 16.-"Complaints charg-
ing william Lewis and Thomas O'Dell
with murder in the first degree for the
killing OF William N. Davis the negro
porter on the Overland Limited train
at Reese the evening of January g Will
be issued from my office tomorrow"
Such was the announcement made by
County Attorney David Jenson this after
noon, following long consultation with
Chief Of Police Thomas e. Browning.
Sheriff E. t. Harrison and the other OIL
ficers who have been at work on the
train robbery case,
From the partial Identification of the
trainmen. and the other evidence In pos
session of the officers. the county attor-
ney says there Is sufficient proof TO war
rant the issuing OF informations; Inc
men will not be charged with train rob
berry, as that crime Us merged In the
greater crime OF murder.
Although there are some facts Which
indicate that Lewis and O'Dell might be
the men who held up the fast southern
| Pacific train. yet II is a fact, neverthe-
less that no conclusive proof OF their
guilt has yet been obtained,
Flagman Is Uncertain.
The failure OF Flagman II. II. Hancock,
who held the sack for the Valuables taken
| from the passengers, positively TO lden-
| tlfy the suspects, was a great disappoint-
| ment TO the officers as he had been relied
upon as the most authoritative source OF
Identification. since he was with the oan-
dts most OF the time while the train
was being held up and had better op-
portunity than the other trainmen to be-
come familiar with their appearance.
characteristics and their voices.
| The two daughters OF Bishop Joseph
dts on the Statewide road after the
train had been robbed, are not positive as
! to their Identification.
Conductor W. A, Middleton. Engineer
Ed Rowse. Frem:n Peterson OF the Lin :
| lted and Brakeman Cross OF the freight
| train are uncertain as 10 the idenuhca-
| ton. Cross is especially impressed with
under arrest ana the bandits who held up
| the train. The faces of the train robbers
having been covered with handkerchiefs
! in a large measure is responsible Tor the
| uncertainty of the Identification, and may
have had a tendency TO change the inhec-
ton of the bandits voices while the train
| was being robbed.
Not Sure About Pillow Slip.
The Pullman pillow case found in the
| rooms Of the four suspects at the time
| OF their arrest has been regarded as the
most valuable clue until today. when
Mrs. ]. n. Labrum, who conducts the
house. informed the officers that she had
frequently found pillow cases of the
same kind in her laundry. sent out by
mistake. The one found in the room
may have been received by her through
the laundry by mistake and left there.
| Although each of the three men sus-
pected OF the train robbery, as well as
| Shafer the youngest. has been rigidly
cross examined separately. the officers
| have obtained no admissions of any kind
from them which will add to the infor-
nation already at hand.
A lodeer at the Model rooming house,
| whose name the. officers refuse to di-
vulge. says that he heard two men enter
| the room occupied by the quartette OF
suspects at 4:30 o'clock the morning after
| the holdup. His attention was directed
10 this fact by the noise the men made
after they entered the room.
More Evidence Coming
| Chief OF Police Browning received a
| telegram this evening from Deputy
| United States Marshal n Hughes al
| Gooding Ida. advising him TO hold the
| four men under arrest until the arrival
| of j G.. Palmer. who Is said TO hold val
uabe evidence. The telegram Says that
the four men spent all Of last summer
at Gooding and in that section Of Idaho