The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-21
ALLEGED HO[D.UPS
fight EXTRAD|T|ON

After a futile fight lasting nearly
one week in an effort to extradite
Bryan O'Hara and Victor Clore, who
were arrested in Michigan by Pinker.
ton detectives on suspicion of being
the bandits who held up the Overland
Limited at Reese, twelve miles west
of Ogden, on the night of January 2,
Sheriff Joseph c. Sharp, acting as
special representative of Governor
William Spry, returned to Salt Lake
early last night from Lansing, Mich.
Sheriff Sharp says that because
O,Hara and Clore are natives of Mich
igan and connected with prominent
families every effort is being made to
prevent their extradition. The family
of O'Hara especially is influential in
Michigan, it is said, and while Clore
is not so well connected he has friends
who are attempting to bring about his
release on writs of habeas corpus.
O'Hara and Clore stoutly deny any
connection with the train holdup and
claim that they were asleep in the
Combination rooming house at Bing-
ham when it occurred.
"During our hearing before Cover
nor Osborne of Michigan, March 10,
in reference to the extradition of the
prisoners said Sheriff Sharp, cat
torney Fred A. Farr, representing
O'Hara, declared that it would be i'm
possible for the accused men to get
anything like a fair trial were they
permitted to be extradited.
Positive Identification.
engineer f. ID. Rouse of the Over
land Limited, who looked down the
gun barrel of one of the highway
men, says that he is positive that
O'Hara was his assailant. During the
holdup he looked at the man he says
was O'Hara nearly an hour and
should be familiar with features which
he seemed to readily identify.
"When O'Hara was first confront
ed by Engineer Rouse and Conductor
w. A. Middleton he turned pale and
shivered nervously. Rouse seems more
certain that he is right in accusing
O'Hara of being the man who held
him up than n victim of a high
wayman | ever saw. This is reason
able, because he had an abundance Of
opportunity to study him.
"Under the advice of counsel and
his brother, who is cashier of the
Aurora National bank of Michigan,
O'Hara would not listen to my sugges-
tions to return to Utah and clear him
self if he was not guilty. However,
Clore told me he was willing to re
turn when I talked with him in the
county Jail at Mount Clemence, Mich.
He said that he could prove an abso-
lutte abb. But Sheriff George Harris
would not listen to the proposition of
permitting Clore to return voluntarily.
"Clore is more the type of "A a
who would hold up a train than
O'Hara. Conductor Middleton and En-
gineer Rouse did not see enough of
Gore, if he were the man who assist
ed in the holdup and killing of the
negro porter, to warrant attempts at
identifying him. They seemed only to
recognize his voice and general ap
p%earance.
1.-The governor suggested sending
special representatives to Utah to
make an investigation Of the robbery
and connections which O'Hara and
Clore might have had with it. lie in
formed me that on April II he would
be ready to honor the requisition pa
pers of Governor Spry if by that time
no successful attempts had ben made
to prove to his satisfaction that
O'Hara and Clore were innocent OF
the holdup."
While in Michigan Sheriff Sharp in.
deputy sheriffs at Bingham to
investigate the claim of O'Hara and
Clore that they were in Bingham on
the night of the train robbery. The
rooming house does not maintain "A
register and, as near az deputy sher-
could learn, O'Hara and Clore were
not in Bingham on the night of Janu-
airy 2. The attorney for O'Hara, how
ever, claims that he can produce aft
eonelusively proving that
O'Hara nor Clore could have
been in the vicinity of the holdup.
Before returning to Salt Lake Sher-
if Sharp asked Governor Osborne if
O'Hara and Clore could not be placed
in prisons more secure than at San