Show t ADMITS MURDER OF MAN IN SALT LAKE LAKEI i I iI William t Jeffers elfers J Arrested in Seattle Sea tile Confesses Killing of o Tim Church Churchill ills ill in in Heidelberg ei a er Saloon a oon i T HR E times eluding the Salt Lake police William Speedy Jeffers alias I L Frank Fr Porter has a confessed that he ho is the murderer of William Cos Coslett CosLett lett alias Tim Tun Patton Patten alias Tim Churchill and is now in the tho Seattle jail i where last night he was identified by Deputy Sheriff Andrew J Smith Linked with the confession of Speedy is that ho he acted in that Coslett had threatened him with a knife and and that he ho shot to protect I himself Although Governor William Spry yesterday executed requisition papers which were later mailed to Seattle Speedy says he will return to Salt I Lake without the service of interstate to papers i 1 The arrest of ot Speedy is I attended by b a aeries series of circumstances that not only onh show how a R ludicrous state of or affairs In the police department but also o show how ho easy ea It In is h for a criminal to escape through the Ineffectual police pollee system After shooting at the Hei liel Heidelberg delberg bar at 1 66 n n clock on the morning of August 6 B Speedy ran In Into into I Ito to the arms of 0 one on officer who re released rele leased lenerd le t him and Ami later larr encountered an another Another another other officer who after Aft r detaining him also alno turned him loose No Xo warrant wan II or asked for by the pollee although h It was definitely known that Speedy h was WAIl the slayer lie He was wan ar are arrested rested rented at Seattle Settle for picking pockets I and a description sent to the pollee I here showed howe that he ht was WAIl the tM man n wanted Chief Chi of or Police Pollee S M f Barlow BarleW I wired M Ired bock back for tor a picture bat hut In the meantime there was wu danger of or releasing 1 ing him on a floater as an Is I the theton eel cus custom ton tom with many suspects Sheriff Sharp Acts Quickly Sheriff Joseph C e Sharp received a telegram from Seattle while Chief Barlow Darlo was w contemplating c the case and immediately sent nt Deputy Sheriff Smith to 0 the th Washington Wa city An hour I later Chief leC Barlow and County Atter Attorney ney ny Job I P Lyon Len appeared before Governor Gov Governor Governor Spy Spry and Ad ask asked 4 for requisition papers Not knowing that t Sheriff Sherlf Sharp had tI already alread acted ded the county attorney requested that Chief hlf Barlow Barlo be named as a the th state Mate te agent In the ease aM Governor Spry said that he would weald Issue the necessary ry papers and would Id name Chief Barlow Later however the Governor Governer learned that t a deputy sheriff was waa w already on his hili way ay to Seattle and aad County Attorney ney ny Lyon also learning of 0 this thU requested re requested quested that Deputy Sheriff Smith nUb be named as the Utah agent lI nt In n the th requisition Ion papers 1111 Governor Spry had nn no alternative but to name the deputy sheriff since he h did not want waat to Co put JUt the Ue tb state slate lI te to doubt double expense by 1 sending pending anther another a man n Chief Table Barlow aJIo waxed y ft t e r its t U rr and ami he M charged the sheriff K of office t flee fice with undue unCia activity although he did not criticise Governor Spry He Ile Hewan n nw was wan w asleep at the switch Jeffers de arrest r lIt In the coast city was Wll due to suspicion which surrounded him himin in it connection with pickpocket oases eases which Ich had come eom to the attention of or the Seattle authorities auther After Aner comparing the description of or slayer layer with the prisoner they thy became becal convinced that tbt he was ws the man wanted by T tIM the Salt Lake officers and aDd wired Chief Barlow at once to that effect erred This Thin was waa followed tol w by a photograph which was waft Identified here as aa that of Jeffers Deputy Sheriff Smith was wan dispatched to Seattle with Ith Instructions Instruction that requisition papers would follow and that Information of 0 the crime would be He wired ahead aile no so a fugitive warrant could be issued at once In the Wash Washington Wa Washington h ington city It and ami the fugitive held until un until til Smiths arrival The information was nas wa wired lr 1 immediately after Smiths Smith departure and d requisition papers issued UM b by Governor Spry and td mailed to Smith yesterday lel G C ny cram Irom lIer Following the I hf murder of Coslett in tn inthe inthe the early rh on the morning ot of o u tot t j 5 two iwo I hours hour Inside the limed on un Insie Tiro Tico T 11 ADMITS MURDER OF MAN IN SALT LAKE Continued from Inge One OD atlon ef of the midnight closing law Jet Jef Jeffers fers fm made his escape after Arter twice run running running ning Into the very arms of or the police lie He has been boen at liberty for nearly nead a aRloah month since the murder and not lIot until yesterday y was WAil a fugitive warrant Is III Issued Issued sued for him aRl then It was Issued In Washington from Information wired Ired from rem the office of o the sheriff Meanwhile Chief Barlow Darlo will do nothing When asked yesterday as all to his hie further action in the case CAN ne he h de declared declared he h would take none that the matter had evidently been removed from his bin hands by b the action of the tho sheriffs office Asked whether It was wasa as asa a positive fact that the sheriffs office had bad taken action and that Deputy Smith had gone Rona to Seattle to return te urn Jeffera Jeffers he declared he did not know To Governor Spry yesterday the chief t that he e did not think the tha move made by the sheriffs sheriff office was fair that he did not believe the sheriff had other moans of or knowing of Jeffers detention In to Seattle other than what came oame to him through street rumor fol following following lowing the receipt of or the tho and aud photograph by himself eU He d declared I clare lared that he had no means of knowing that the Governor would stand for or tho the ex ox expense G penso pense of or tho the trip and abandoned any an anId Idea Id of ot making It or sending Bonding n a man after aner learning that Chat the deputy leput sheriff had gone Confesses CM to Killing I Following the receipt of or Information from Salt Lake Lako that ho was the man wanted Jeffers was confronted with the tho chargo charge and confessed cont Mcd to killing In making hi his confession ho alleges as the motive moth for fot forthe forthe the Ute shooting declaring Tim t till ill had hod already cut up two run i r nd had a reputation for being a bad man It It the t ht blade and when he tae came ut at atme t tm m me with witt his hl knife knit I got ot him first with mv my m pistol That Thata s all there thre la is to rt It t nn I Ii i ant an t fight right extradition said fers fera era |