The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-22
" Tex Hamilton" Declares
He Aided Men Who
Robbed Train
ACCUSED ARE IN THE EAST
Accuser Says He Wishes to Save
Clore and O'Hara and Admits
Wanting Share of Reward

I 10 save Victor Clore and Bry
an O'Hara. and also 10
claim the rewards offered
for the arrest and conviction Of
the men who held up and robbed
the Overland Limited train on the
night of January ,, TEX, well
known police character, has given
to the authorities the names OF
two men, who. he says, were the
principals in the robbery while he
acted as their aide. The amazing
confession of TEX Hamilton, " us
conveyed TO the police through al
intermediary, Pat WycEerly, gives
a detailed acc punt Of all The
moves made by the alleged ban
dts Immediately prior and subsr-
quent TO the robbery which re-
suited III the death OF two per-
sons.
OOUleSSlOu petalleC
Although the authorities in Ogden
'and Salt Lake were at first inclined to
regard the confession rs o. little in
por'ancc, WycherIy. acting for Tex
has continued 10 supply detail, OF ;hc
most convincing character. Tho men
who held up the Overland tlod to the
east shortly after the robbery md arc
Cow in hiding
Meantime WvcherIy and "'Tex' arc
seeking TO claim the 5000 reward.
but arc willing to share it with Gilbert
Belnan, former sheriff of Wcbor couu-
~. who worked up the case, and with
several others who haze been inStru
mental in bringing The negotiations to
moved with the utmost circumSpection,
Wychcrlv seeking 10 guard "rex
from punishment and 'ETeX trying tJ
provide himself with protection against
the time when he should find it neceS
sary to make clean broas. of the
whole affair.
Tex" in Hiding.
The negotiations have heen conducted
by Wycherlv, while TEX has re
manned under cover. Wycherly's latest
revelation IS a declaration that sonc
OF the .jewelry is still cached in Utah,
and that when he considers the mo.
ment ripe he viii reveal It's where
abouts. The authorities have been in
clined to comply with ali Of Wycherly's S
demands AS far as consistently posi-
bic, but they have found him very ex.
acting
Gilbert Bolnap, formerly sheriff of
Weber county, following the holdup of
the Overland Limited uain at Reese the
night OF January ?. started To work on
the case Independently from the other
officers. He learned that Il man named
TEX Hamilton" alias TIE O'Rackct
an eX-convict. planned the holdup OF the
Tex went 10 Reese and ta,npered with
tho semaphore OF the block signals set
ting IL against the Overland Limited from
the east. Although "TeX" planned the
entire robbery. the men who. he says,
actually carried IL out arc Walter Foley
the taller who served time In the Utah
and Big Dick Wilson tho
shorter and heavier of the bandits
Near Scene of Holdup.
These two men were known personally
to eelnap when he was sheriff OF Weber
county. Wilson has two fingers off his
right hand. After the robbery the two
men were traced back to Foicys home
in Missouri where they now are said
Foley and Wilson were seen by w. ..
Belnap, a nephew OF Gilbert Belnsp. with
shotSuns near Reese on December 20
hunting ducks. He demanded their war
rant for shooting on private grounds and
they told him that they lived 9 few
hundred yards down the road and were
miners employed near Promontory
Point.
After being warned about shooting on
private grounds, Foley and Wilson left
going To West Weber They asked tho
station agent of The Southern Pacific
whose name is Holt to stop the Overland
Limited train that night as IL was urgent
that they take the train for Wells, Nev
The station agent refused To do so and
as a stall. so as not TO excite sus-
piclon, the men checked grip to Wells
New, In Wilson's name, The grip which
was afterwards found at the station i'm
Wells by detectives. contained few
Solled collars and other linen
West Weber and took q room i'm a small
odSinG house over the ST, Louis saloon
It tho corner OF Grant avenue and TWcn-
y-6fth street. They are supposed 20
rave stayed In Ogden from that time un-
Ill the train robbery on January -
Hold Up Overland,
The robbery which had been planned
~ Foley and Murphy with the assistance
II TEX" for December % was postponed
,ntil January >, Trainmen on The Over
and observed that the semaphoye mad
,cen rampcred with on the night on De
ember %: but after the naelman had been
ent ahead the train proceeded through
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