The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-22
THREE BANDITS
!. CAUGHT At TER
I. PISTOL BAT TIE
Desperadoes Who Garry Out
Two Bold Daylight Rob-
berries in Ogden Business
Center Are in Jail.
LONE POLICEMAN
ATTACKS HOLDUPS
Bullets Fly and Crowd Gath
ers; Citizens Assist in Cap
ture of Heavily-armed
Desperadoes.
Special TO The Tribune.

Il Special to The Tribune
n OGDEN, July al.-No detail of {
+. daring western "stickup' was lack
! ing this afternoon when the police, aid
9 ed by citizens, captured three despera
a does after revolver battle in the
/ heart of the business district. Although
hundreds of people were attracted to
the streets by the firing of not fewer
than ten shots, none was injured by the
] flying bullets.
n Guard Thomas Lever of the police
1departmeut precipitated the battle when
p he engaged in a lone handed attac X
upon the three holdups while they were
7 in the act of robbing the Exchange sa-
4 loon. Less than fifteen minutes pre-
5viously the gang had robbed the Biel
= meat market, at 147 Twenty fifth
! l5street.
Thugs Club Victims.
= Three persons were injured during
the operations of the desperate erimi-
nals, but none seriously, All received
blows on the head from the butt end of
IA revolver for failure to comply i'm
! mediately with the commands Of the
an ,nrobbers- Emil Keller, 1349 Washington
Z Havenue, one of the men in the Ex-
Scchange saloon, received three inch
sgash on the right side of the head. It
Isiwas at first believed that he had been
rstruck by bullet, but DR.. G. e. Ward
=: leigh, who dressed the wound, declared
u, that 1t was the result of a blow from
"a revolver butt. Anton Christensen, a
n5farmer, who was also in the saloon, re-
.aeeived blow on the head, while Will
liam Moulding, 467 Twenty-sixth street.
I, an employee of the Biel market. was
Efreated in like manner. The latter
Twas rendered almost UNCONSCIOUS.
, n Following the capture of the three
men, no two of whom were taken at
!. the same time or place, they gave their
: s1ames as Thomas Martin, Willie Bump
o. and Oscar McSwiggin. With the ex-
d ;eption of Bump, who was not given an
opportunity, the robbers showed fight
sFhen placed under arrest. Openly de-
lying the officers, they resisted every
ffort of the police to secure any infor-
ets.nation from them.
ccssylerk Aids in Capture.
u o. After opening the attack in the Ex-
al hange saloon, Guard Lever did not par
~. lcipate in the actual capture Of any
.ctn ne OF the three men. Pursuing Martin
hiD rto the PeeryKnisely hardware store,
bs f4S7 Washington avenue, Patrolman
~,scar Swanson disarmed the man and
s urned him over to Detective Robert
" Furke and Earl Burton, 1923 Wall ave-
ne, and others for safe keeping. He then
y. cent direct to the Burt Brothers dry
!teIypods store. 243l Washington avenue,
he "a captured McSwiggin. Bump was
SD ken by John Harvey, a clerk at the I.
socs s,s Sword store, and Sanitary Inspector
ne Scorge Shorten in front of the N. o.
aIS III gden store, 236 Twenty street,
reuspd turned over to Patrolman Thomas
The blackburn.
lehalt was a few minutes before l:3o
- block this afternoon when two Of the
~ entered the Twenty fifth street
CWat market and approached Matthias
81, the proprietor. There were no GUS
sep mers in the place at the time. AS BieI
sons med over the counter one Of the ban.
} eosSgfs whipped revolver from beneath
IsSt1F sTt1F coat and, ordering the proprietor to
ssIcsr TOW up his hands, placed the weapon
I'd st1hlnst Biel IS head. Moulding, who was
> psp tted at desk, did not understand the
nmand when first given and was
Ieo@s zen blow ON the head. It dazed him
J. - 6uch an extent that Biol was forced
le IRE assist him when the two were Or
the, fed into the large ice box.
olS. eIplessly Look On.
|KJ hrough the glass door of the cooler
-NIW watched the two men open the
w register, dumping it upon the floor
: rrllng the cash drawer. The
er,i~ pers secured $40 in silver. II ia he.
2e~1iy that the third robber was stand.
ciDoy guard near the entrance of the shop
ods' e tnis was going on. AS soon as The
e. o nad 1sappeared out Of the door.
tlS !, lsuude Escaped from the ice box by crawl
l.ough small door at the TOP. He
srious' tiateiy notified the police and then
Itale Y TO the assistance Of MouIdin1 ,nSn rnSa
|, es< (CoHtinued On paga T,n.I