The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-15
Jack" OF will" Wilson Shot Off
Ger Fearing Arrest for Many
Other Crimes.
BOY MAKES CONFESSION OF
TWO OTHER RECENT CRIMES
Special Officer Quick and Police Or
fices Egan Saved Entire Party
From Being Killed.

A conscience weighted down with
a burden of guilt and apprehensiv2
of certain arrest By officers whom h.
saw approaching him, was the sole
and only incentive that prompted
the mnl der Of Special Officer Thomas
G. Logan by the desperate brisand
who gives his name as VIII VIII
son and the boy Roy Lutes
Neither cocaine nor any other
drug had thing to do with the
greatest crime 50 far known in the
career of the murderer, but he shot
and killed Lcgau because hc
thought he was about to be arrest
ed for series of grave oifenses
which he had recently committed in
Alexander and Pulaski counties.
Had 1t not been for the rapiditY
of action and the position of Special
officer quick. which gave him a
chance to grab Wilson in his arms
holding his left hand anl dlrccting
the pistol which DETECTED the othe"
three bullets downward, all four Ci
tho officers would probably hay'
been shot and killed by Wilson and
the boy. as they were walking arse
nails, the shooting of the Officers he
ing completed before they, in self
defense. could have drawn Their
weapons which were in holsters un-
der their GyerGoats. while both man
and boy held their weapons clutchcd
tight in their hands in side coat
pockets. Wilson drawing and firing
his first revolver before the officers
were aware that he actually was
armed Eean made the boy throw
his hands up.
The boy Roy Lutes confessed to
participating with "Will Wilson,
whom he says told him to call him
Jack" i'll tho holding up aud rob
bing OF William kuntz, Ernest Zall
and William Gill of $5G.35 in casa
and watch valued at $57 rear
Beech Ridge on the evening OF Nc
vcmber last.
lie admitted on he stand whila
giving testimony at the csronors in.
quest Ecld to enquire yesterday
afternoon into the causes of tn
death Of Logan, that he and Wilson
had beaten up and robbed Jamcs
Virgins, negro farmer near
Mounds on the evening of December
q last. They secured $52 in money
from Virgins.
Lutes had been taken down in an
automobile early yesterday morning
by Sheriff fraser and Special Ofi-
GERS Quick and Long to the Cairo
Brewery where the boy was posi-
lively identified by the three men.
each seeing him separately and
making the Identification so positive
and convincing that there can Oc NJ
mistake.
The boy did not deny his partici-
patton in the robbery following his
Identification.
James Virgins, the negro, alsp
identified tho pair who had beaten
up and robbed MIN They had stOp
ped with him two days and he hal
plenty OF opportunity to make suy
OF their personal appearance Tn
boy admitted at the inquest that the
Identification was perfect and that
they were the parties. lie said that
tho man Jack" had beaten up Wig
gins with the big Fl Colts revolvcl
which was found on his person.
Lutes said that he was II years
old, that his father was dead. hi.
mothers name is Mrs Laura r
Lutes and that she lives at 75<
East Fourth street, Middleton, Ohio
lie said that he had been with
Jack" for three months. Following
the roDbing of Virgins the pair hat
gone TO Memphis and then returned
to Cairo which they intended I.
ing to Mt. Carmel on a Big Foul
freight train.
In the camp where the men wer,
and the crime was committed wa.
found a big piece of bacon, potatoes
and two loaves of bread upon whicl
they subsisted.
The officers working on the cas-,
are of The opinion that the pai