Show i FATE AWAITS Aw AITS I THIEF WHO LOOTED THE UTAH NATIONAL I I Pitiless Sleuths Will Watch Him Hin Year After Year if Necessary sary Wretch Is Exposed Other Rob Robberies Robberies beres Indicate Ultimate Capture k BY LOUIS P KIRBY What will be the fate of the man I who stole the from the vault of 11 the Utah National bank N Will he prosper pro per and live to enjoy the stolen Etolen fortune and laugh at the thief takers Or will he in the end fall faU into t the e clutches clutch l of the th minions of the law and expiate his crime in a prison These questions have haye been much dis discussed discussed cussed in Salt Lakes clubs and other gathering places of men who are inter interested interested Interested ested In the hunt for the bank rob robber robber robber ber berThe The history of other famous robber robberies robberIes ies is is not a ft cheering record for the theman theman man who has the of the Utah National bank mystery locked in his breast There have been other thieves as adroit and as skillful as an he there have been other communities as per perplexed perplexed perplexed as the people of Salt Lake there have been other long periods of wait walt waiting waiting ing for the truth to come to light but butin in almost every case the skulking wretch who yielding to 0 a lust for money has betrayed those who con confided confided confided In him has ended In the stripes of a convict or in the of a sul sui suicide chic cide How the Thief Feels I 1 wonder how hov the thief feels to tonight tonight night remarked a young man con connected with one of the large corpora corporations corporations j last night hI I have tried to im imagine imagine imagine agine how that man now looks upon his achievement If it were possible to have him settle the bet Id wager I that the guilty man would be glad to undo the crime and be again as clean cleana a man as he lie was last January Even Een though he has that money mony hidden away the change in his life even before he is branded as a criminal cd minai must make him feel that he has sacrificed sacrificed something that was better than gold His heart must be torn with self reproach and he must look upon his hidden hoard with loathing Or even though his nature is too base to feel feci that the things he has thrown away awa 4 are worth more than money the fear of the prison the terror of watchers the panic of a hunted creature must wring from him the wish that the Utah National bank robbery were a bad dream and not a reality that must tor torture torture torture ture his conscience forever The thief may and he may not be troubled by conscience said raid a com corn companion panion Before he committed the crime he must have thought of it night after night perhaps for years Do you remember that page of Rosseau in inv v which he tells of dreaming so constant constantly ly of having a princess for his sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart that his capacity for loving ordinary ordinary ordinary nary maidens was blunted This Utah National thief f probably dreamt of 4 L looting the vault so often that he be became became became came a hardened criminal before he ac actually actually actually thrust his guilty hands into the vault McCornick Deeply Moved I remember how deeply impressed I 1 Iwas IWas was upon discussing the affair with Mr McCornick interposed a friend of the banker It was has the only time I eyer saw Mr Ir McCornick exhibit any particular emotion You know lt ow that I Ican Ican Ican can take a business loss as well as any of them said Mr Ir McCornick and nany rany a time I have staked my money on a quick estimate of a mans char character character acter but to have a scoundrel whom I trusted take it from me and at such sucha a time it Is almost enough to shake ones confidence in human nature It was as paid to be seen that it the actual money loss that moved him 1 t so PO much continued Mr associate hit it was the fact that he had been heen betrayed in the house of his friends Although he committed only one crime he Is probably as wicked as any criminal in the state prison returned the former speaker He had plenty of time to weigh what he was to sacrifice sacrifice fice lice when he became a thief and he hc made the sacrifice with his eyes e es open But the thiefs Chiefs sacrifice was nothing to what he has made innocent men menen endure en ure What torture he has caused the themen themen themen men who have been suspected with him You wonder how the thief feels I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder how the innocent men feel who have been Involved in that strange rob bery Smirched Reputations If the thief would stand at First South and Main street tonight and shout I am a thief he would clear the names of the innocent men from all aU reproach but nothing that he or any an another other man or any multitude of men could do could compensate those tho e Inno info Innocent Innocent cent men for the anguish of ot soul they have endured endur d for more than three months The rhe great price of the rob robbery robbery bery bevy was not the taken from the banks vaults nor was it the sacrifice sacrifice fice flee in of the thief It was the smirching of the reputations of in innocent Innocent innocent men Until the robbery is cleared these blameless men must bear beara a heavy burden If the thief is not caught and branded with his crime their careers are wrecked their lives spoiled and their faith in all but divine Justice shaken I have thought of those innocent men of their shame of their suffer suffering sufferIng suffering ing and I have pitied them None but Satan down in the bottommost depths of hell could stand unmoved after con contemplating contemplating contemplating the work this thief has done The thief himself must have de demoniacal demoniacal qualities to gaze upon the wreck of good names that he has made and not cry out so that all the world may hear that he is the thief and that none but he is guilty Will the thief forever remain un nfl uncaught uncaught caught inquired the first speaker Certain to Be Caught Uncaught was the answer He is certain to be exposed Time may pass The innocent men to whom he has brought ht shame may drink deep of the 11 bitter cup of sorrow orrow They may m r want among men for tor years with the brand of suspicion upon them and grow to feel that only at the bar of divine justice will the mask be torn from the face of the scoundrel l who has done them this great wrong But the day of exposure will come as surely surel as the final day of judgment The traitor to the trust of employers ers to the sacred bond of friendship and to the duty of man to man will cringe accused acc sed before the eyes of those whom he has outraged What That has this man done with the Answer that and you ou can name the period of liberty that remains to him He stole that money to enjoy it himself Therefore he will some day take the hoard from its hiding place That day even though he is not at once arrested he will begin his jour journey journe journey ney ne toward the penitentiary Week ek after week month after month year ear after year rear If I necessary his Income will be measured against his expenditures by pitiless sleuths of the American Banners Bankers association and the day he attempts to realize upon his crime that very ery day da almost his undoing will ill be complete Will Try to Realize If the money is buried burled in the ground he h will dig it up If it is in the hands of a confederate he will demand its return If it is locked In some secret transaction devised by b an adroit mind time will smooth out the tangle For he stole for himself and he will want the price of his crime Yes assented the other a man would not steal and lose his stand standing standIng ing lag among men to oblige some other fellow He stole for himself And may maye he e dig up the money tomorrow and be caught before sundown So say we all aU of us chorused a group of listeners Your speaking of the certainty of the capture of the Utah National bank robber reminds me of a n case that oc I Five Generations Photographed Together 4 r r Jc J w 2 5 t 4 i IC w fr frS frI S f C I C z Five generations Isaac W Fox c f aged 90 years Mrs Sirs Martha A Fox Taylor Ta lor his oldest child S J Tf Tr T his chest grand child hUd Mrs Urs Ver 11 lillian lilllan Taylor Hart his oldest Miss Lillian Hart his oldest within my experience said a lawyer in the group In one of the Wells Veils Fargo offices there are several men holding confidential positions One day a considerable sum of money dis disappeared disappeared disappeared appeared It was whisked out of sight just as the Utah National dis disappeared disappeared disappeared appeared There was an investigation It resulted in the discovery of noth nothing nothIng nothing ing more than was known In the be beginning ginning the money was gone The guilty men men and the innocent nt men were suspected Exposure Quickly Follows For four years things went on as before until the robbery was almost forgotten It was dim In the minds mind of all except the thief and the tile tireless workers of the secret service One day the guilty man withdrew the plus plug from the bottom of a table leg and took from the hole he had bored therein the th stolen currency He had lived care carefully carefully carefully fully and amI In four years vears it was safe ri t assume he said t o J himself elf that he had accumulated some sonic substantial savings s sHe He took the money it was only and purchased a ranch in a neighboring state s ate That lay day da the laid their hands upon mm That mat day aay the innocent men knelt and thanked God that they had been lifted once more to the level of honest men in the eyes of the world But it cost them four years years of wait waft wafting waiting waiting ing ejaculated a n young broker with witha a note of or horror borror Four of the best years of their young yo ng manhood four years of opportunity four years in an abyss which even guilt cannot Know J now That should be a hanging offense for the man max who committed the crime said the broker I agree with you replied the law lawyer lawyer lawyer yer But that Is not the law The Theman Theman Theman man went to prison Caught With the Goods hI I 1 know of another case said the lawyer which fortunately lacks the feature of innocent men accused or suspected A thief stole a large quantity of Jewels and burled buried his loot In the suburb of a city He was suspected He was watched for some sometime sometime sometime time but it was impossible to fasten the crime upon him He seemed plen plentifully plentifully plentifully supplied with ready money and mane made ma e no effort to sell the jewels Fo For Fora Foft Foa a ft year ear he was watched not constantly however It was wac known that he would wait walt for a considerable period before he would try to dispose of his loot Those who had made up their minds to prove his guilt and recover the jew jewels jewels jewels els did not commence a ceaseless watch of his movement until they were sure that his money was nearly gone one Then he was followed night When V hen he went to his buried burled treasure there was a stealthy follower behind him The moment his hands touched the stolen st len jewels he was seized Let us drink to the innocent men In the Utah National bank affair said I I the broker May they have fortitude courage and faith in divine justice As glass touched glass the others responded To the innocent men |