Show CROOK OF RARE TALENTS NABBED LONG AT L LARGE RGE I nY Local Safes Cracked liy by His Manipulations l Police Suspect HEADS HEl THREE GANGS OF THUGS IS TS lARGE CHARGE A Gross Confesses Share E jn in jn Bold old Springville Bank i Robbery i t V With the apprehension of oC Ed Id Re Red 7 q ross alias Charles Lan Langdale dale arrested t Ore January Januar 30 one of or f the the master criminals of ot this generation las yas co declare Salt Sail Lake police officials Gross 1 only onh 27 years of ot a nee age e have havo been tho the organizer ors li Is known lo to df lit nt at least leat three separate gangs s-angs of oC ofT T since his hiM c escape cap from rom a L Minnesota Minnesott Minne Minne- sota sott prison in September er 1019 1919 Despite De pile his youth he is said to be bet on one of ot the most versatile er criminals of or t ati att att at- at circumstances from recent years cars t i tending his known operations the localS local S authorities n believe hw hu mt may have ha K worked here after the robbery A possibility that he ho was Implicated tl In the drug ruG store holdups in November November Novem Novem- nd ind safe Jobs johs lucre here ber ber and December is 19 being Investigated ln 1 liy hj the he I The first sang an said to have ha been orl or- or 1 l' l b by successfully robbed a bank ank In Minneapolis September 16 sa say the police Gro Gross s. s with a. a remnant of or his gang then appeared in Utah where recruited to hj his arni rm of greater he ho planned and th the robbery ot of tho the Mendenhall Utah on October Octo Octo- bank at ber cr 5 lIol Huh I l' l i p on nit Coast t Following this thiM robbery tho the gang separated an and fled in various arlous Three of or them later were ap- ap serving sentence sentence sent sent- and are aro now v ence In the Utah state penitentiary Gross was the only one to 10 escape He lie ue next t appeared In Portland Ore accompanied by LJ- two other holdup men of oC no known previous lous records s say aj the police Again Gross was the ringleader ring ring- JC leader der the master mind the activities of ot subordinates subordinate DI Dispatches from Portland nd sa say that I the rho trio have hL confessed to six holdups holdups hold hold- ups lips in io that elt city Bail was fixed at att t each ach and they thc are arc rc held to the grand rand Jury Chief of 0 Detectives cS Riley M. M Beckst Beckstead Beck- Beck st stead ad was wa informed yesterday that a R. requisition for Gro Gross Gross' s' s extradition be beIng being be- be ing c carried to Portland by b- Sheriff J. J T. T Williams of Utah count county would not bo Lo honored until the tho Oregon courts had finished hl rf Iti tho oneT n u. u Store Bandit t A A. possibility that Gross was one of or tho the tho drug druS store bandits operating here In late October and anti early curly November November Novem Novem- ber successfully holding up five drug drugstores drugstores stores in as many nights la is being en entertained entertained en- en b by the tho police pollee because of the nature of oC hI his hie alleged Portland opera opera- tion As his first job In Portland was wason wason wason on 28 28 It is 18 also alto t thought ought possible possible possible pos pos- sible that f following In thuS Springville bank bani robbery robber cr nu and the drug druS' store holdups hold hold- ups here he organized the tho safecracking safe crack ing crew which rifled several Salt Lake strong strong- boxes Nearly 00 In money mone several sO cold roId watches an and some val diamonds rit s were taken in the tho six Portland drug drug- store and garage holdups to which Gross Is said to have confessed The method of or operation in the coast cost city Is said to have been Identical with that pursued by the bandits who op operated op- op crated here herc two months earlier When arrested rl in Portland Gross u used ed the thc alias aUas of Charles Chari eM Lan Langdale dale and denied ever having having- been In Salt Lake declaring declaring- that ho wont vont direct to Portland Port Port- land from Duluth early carly in October lie He Is said saul to bo Iso a a. versatile and dan dan- I I j eroUS cro crook K and nd off offered oral the arresting arresting- I officers In Portland if they would 4 permit him to escape t I Sherl Sheriff J J. J T T- Williams of Utah count coun- coun 4 t ty left for Cor Coralla or Walla alla Walla Wash Vash on off l business Friday He lie carried with him hint a requisition HI signed b by Governor Governor Gov- Gov Bamberger er for Cor tho the extradition o of Gross GrosH and will continue to lo Portland j in in an effort to Set get the Oregon Oreg-on officials officials' k sanction |