The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11
SUSPECT TWO
Of COMPLETELY
IN Bic ROBBERY
Officers Believe Prisoners
May Be Bandits Who
Held Up Tooele
Bank.
POSSESSIONS LEAD
TO THEIR ARREST
Have Currency of High De-
nomination and Clothing
Which Does Not
Fit.
III WO trunks full of fine tailor
made clothing, which prove that
the tailor failed to get anything

4" WO trunks full of fine tailor
made clothing. which prove that
the tailor failed to get anything
like fit, four diamond stick.
pins and three diamond rings, the value
Of which will later be determined
by, experts, and S342 in cash, are
held In the custody of Sheriff
Joseph c. Sharp, being the alleged
property of John Castle, who awaits
an investigation on the part of the
officers to determine whether or not he
was one OF the two bandits who. last
Wednesday afternoon, held up. gagged
and bound Cashier S. !. Shafer of the
Commercial bank Of Tooele, and
robbed the institution of cash amount
ing to about $4,000.
John Vining, who was arrested at
the same time Castle was, is also held
at the Salt Lake county Jail,
Both men Will be taken to Tooele
today by Sheriff NJ. NJ. Bush Of that
county to see if they can be identified
by citizens as the two strangers who
were seen lettering near the bank
shortly before the time of the robbery.
Castle and Fining. as they give their
names at the present time, were as
rested early Saturday morning by Dep
uty Sheriff James Parry, at the Gar
field depot. Sheriff Sharp was notified
and he, with Deputy Steele, went IL
Garfield by automobile and returned
with the prisoners at clock yester-
day morning.
Sheriff Sharp at once notified Sheriff
Bush of the arrest of the Two suspects
and Mr.. Bush and Mr.. Shafer cams
in from Tooele yesterday to talk with
the prisoners.
Identification Not Complete.
In general way both men answer
the description of the bank robbers,
but their Identification is not positive
taller of the two arrested, looks very
much like the ''tall' man who held
the gun on him, but inclincs to the
belief that the "short'' man. who
bound and gagged him was heavier than
Castle. However. Shafer s memory as
to the details Of what took place after
he began looking into the muZZle of
the revolver is not clear.
The arrest of the two suspects was
brought about in peculiar manner.
A trunk belonging to Lou Petit, a
Tooele and who was about TO leave for
Nevada. was left on the depot plat
form ut Garfield This trunk was
broken open and portion of its con-
tents found scattered ovlF the platform.
Among the articles pickAd up was a
bank book showing deposit in tho
Commercial bank of Tooele and this
aroused the suspicious of the officer,
who arrested Castle and Vining, whom
he found hanging about the depot and
acting in suspicious manner,
One Has Much Money.
Castle, the short man. who is about
36 years of age, was the first to be
searched at the county Jail. While he
declared that he had been hoboing"
his way from San Francisco to the east,
in his pocket was found purse con-
tanning six $50 bills. four so bills
and So in silver. His companion at the
time of his arrest, Viniug, had nothing
at all of value in his pockets, unless
a scent beer chip can be reckoned as
an asset.
Both men insisted that they were
strangers TO each other and declared
that they had met for the first time
only few minutes before they were
arrested at the Garfield depot.
Questioning of Castle by Sheriff
Sharp led the prisoner to say that