The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
MORE ABOUT GOLD
 ROBBERY
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE TELLS OF SOME OF THE
 LATE DEVELOPMENTS.

l.. Smith with the theft of the S51. 500 gold bullion. The brothers art notorious crooks
 Partial confession was gotten iron Margarp Helry. who posed a. Mrs. Smith. duplicating Smith, alia! E. Leahy. and three other men il the theft.
 Detective Sergeant Edward O'Day lost and recovered S2.20O gold brick when taking loot 10 hall of justice
 Detective Richard Tobin found the lost brick in gutter. under the police automobile.
 Roy Burton. son of Dr. B. T Burton. head of Burton sanatorium 6i7 Ninth avenue. and Mrs. Roy Burton were arrested in the police raid of an opium shack at 2114 Point Lobos avenue.
 Twenty-Five hundred dollars il bills were found by the police pinned on the inside shirt of Smith al the city prison.
 J. E. Levison. second viCepresi dent and marine secretary of the Firemen's Fund Insurance com pany. conferred with Chief Operative Ildl NIOHll Ol lIt ' iitltu sNthlts secret service and Assistant United States District Attorney Alfred Black relative to determining whether the federal or local authorities shal conduct the prosecution.
 With the arrest of Richard (Dick Meditth, a prominent mining man of Seattle. momentarily expected the San Francisco detectives believe the Seattle police will recover the rel ainder of the $57,000 gold bul lion and have one of the ringleaders of the gold pirates who robbed the steamer Humboldt last September
 The batIiing tacturnity of E. l. Smith, whose real name is E. Leahy and who handled the disposition of gold bars valued at more than $10.000 in this city, has failed to shield his confederates in crime Due to the perseverance and inge. nuity of Detectives Harry C. Will Der and Jack F. Mccarthy, whc were called into the case by the Fireman's Fund Insurance company it is now practically established that at least four men and one woman are directly involved in the robbery.
 Medtth has been under strict sur yeillance in Seattle for two days, and his arrest is certain. Cipher letters written in criminal code, from Meditth to Smith. are in the hands of the police. As a result, men of prominent connections who are known to have had close deal in MaHittI being watched in Denver and in eastern cities.
 Margaret Henry, the attractive companion of Smith. who posed as his wife, is known to have made a partial confession to Detective Wilber. In her statement Miss Henry divulged her relations with the gang and told the story of the conception of the plot that led to the daring substitution, while the consignment of precious metal was in transit to Seattle.
 Confessions were likewise secur- ed from Big Tex" G. NJ. Woodson and Little Tex" J. T. WCodson re- garding their connection with the case. Both declared that the gold came with Smith from northwest ern city. Big Tex told of having ar hall on the Barbary coast when the gold was disposed of.
 Arthur Spear, formerly well known clubman, but lately a ire quenter of drug filnd haunts, and Roy Burton, son of Dr. B. T. Bur ton, the president of the Burton sanatorium, GA Ninth avenue, are said to have been in Seattle two months ago with the WOodson brothers and Smith, when the divis- ion of the gold bullion took place
 Roy Burton and his wife were caught in the raid managed by Detective Mccarthy and Gus Spauld- ing of an opium joint in the rear of 3 II Point Lobos avenue, last Thursday afternoon. Young Burton, who until recently has been in China, travelling for the music firm were taken to the secret service rooms in the postotfice building and held until near midnight Saturday.
 The Woodson brothers declare Sheriff Thomas Finn was frequent visitor at the Palm house, the opium haunt conducted by his mother-in- law, and was known to all the in mates. Finn accepted the invita- tion of Spear to be toastmaSter at banquet of drug tiends last We'd nesday night, in the Palm house. According to reports of secret ser vice detectives, Finn, as well as prominent city officials, attended the banquet which was given by Spear to his fellow drug victims in honor of his inheritance of more than s10O,OOO, and his prospective re- union with his wife, who is now in Los Angeles.
 To crown the exciting events of the day Detective Sergeant Edward O'Day lost one of the gold bars, worth $2,200, which he was taking from the office of Chief Secret Ser vice Operator Harry Moffit to the property clerks office in the city hall. While O'Day was half dis tracted over the unexplained disap- pearance of the gold bar and had gone back to Mofiit, saying he had received but four bars instead of the receipted five, Detective Richard Tobin, who was with O'Day, found the missing gold where it had fallen beside the curbing under the police automobile.
 Though the police had searched Smith when he was first arrested a second search conducted yesterday morning in the city prison reveal ed S2,5OO in bills pinned to his in side shirt. This, with his $500 dia