The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-26
PARRISH MISPLACED
IN ROLE OF BANDIT
Young Man Is Repentant and
Frankly Tells Story OF
Car Roldup.
WONDERS ABOUT FATE
Anxious Concerning Employ
ment When Released; Sec
ond Man Caught in Denver.
WONDERS ABOUT FATE

- wonder how long ! will have tc
serve in prison, aud will / be able to
get a Job ruilroading again when
get out
Such was the troubled query yester.
,av of Pierre Parrish. 20 years of age
a brakeman on the Salt Lake Route,
now in the city jail on charge OF
robbery lie has confessed to having
taken part with n companion III the
robbery of Mt Olivct street car on
the night OF March IS.
The words betrayed more than
heart < load of rcmorse. SO far from
being q bad man trapped, Parrish ap-
peared but a rueful boy turned thought,
iul The light of adventure has died
out of his boyish blue eyes. Nor is 1t
replaced by the cold, calculating CLEAN
by means of which the hardened Grim
ina makes effort to save his
face.'' Rather, he wears a puzzled,
baf6ed look, as if trying to compre-
hcnd what it will mean to him to pay
the price of tuition for his first hard
lesson in the cruel school of experience.
He seems strangely ont Of place IN the
role of bandit.
Arrested in Denver.
4 telegram from Denver last night
told of the arrest there of n. l.. Hardin,
alleged TO be the other man iii the
holdup. The arrest resulted from in
formation furnished by Parrish. Ac-
cording to tho police, the other man
has criminal record, and Parrish Is
believed to have been drawn into the
affair by him. Parrish told of meeting
him first on trip east year ago, and
again at the Oregon Short Line depot
on March Is. three days before the
holdup. The man posed as railroad
man, according to Parrish, and showed
credentials which Parrish now says were
stolen. According to the telegram from
the Denver police, Hardin will come
back without tho formality of extra
dition.
Parrish was arrested yesterday morn
ing while yet in bed at his place or
residence in the home of A private
family. He was traced by means Of
laundry mark in q handkerchief which
he had prepared to use as a mask and
carried with him on the night Of the
holdup. The handkerchief, together
with that of his companion, WAS found
in a vacant lot east of Thirteenth East,
on First South street, near where the
holdups left the street car after robbing
Conductor 4. A. Chadwick and Motor
man C. C. Knox. Together with other
uiSCdtuou Uy pail, tuC
handkerchiefs were taken to police
headquarters, There they We're ex-
amined by Detectives George L. Cleve.
land and c. G.. Christensen. The detec-
tives discovered that the laundry mark
had been cut out of the corners of
both. But III one was an old mark,
faded but discernible, which had been
overlooked until it caught the eye of
the detective Then began the building
of the circumstantial chaiu that was to
fasteD the crime upon the youth who
had not the cffrontery to deny his guilt
when he was faced by the officers. AS
he did their bidding and arose from his
bed to dress a revolver was found I'M
der his pillow. II was no longer the
weapon of bold. bad robber, but an
other bit of evidence in the undoiug Of
a folly-led youth,
Tells Simple Story.
81 guess it's truc,'' said Parrish
when told last night how his identity
had been discovered. 81 read il some
where that no crime is ever committed
but that there is left clue that can
lie made to betray the man who COM
mitted it. -
Parrish said that his home town is in
the state of Indiana, and that he came
of a respected family. He came west
in 1909, he said, and had been railroad
ing q year Before that he did some
electrical work, and before that was q
High school student. He looks little
more now.