Show CONFESSES TO A CRIME Christian h Holt Says lie He Robbed Ernest l h TRIS TRIES LEAR CLEAR RK t LETTER IS WIEN WRITTEN FR PROM O I II S 4 0 I If the confession of a a holdup and r robber bb r proud of his Sioni can b be r retied l on on G George org York ork of Is not t the e scoundrel who wh beat old Dad Osterloh within an Inch of his life ten ten days agon ago In Sheet Sheets camping cor corral rl ral on upper Main street street Aman A man who cals calls himself Chris Christian an Holt has written The Herald from Sacramento s saying York has been it and unjustly hocused loi Hoit himself claims to have robbed and beaten the old man ee be because cause he had money and I must have some He says that both h he and York skipped out York got frightened when Holt Hoit told him Osterloh had been robbed I It will he be remembered that York and Osterloh tIle the latter beIng nearly S SD years old traveled Provo in a wagon and had I it made up o go business to together gether While they were here they put up at the coral corrai making their bed In Inthe Inthe the barn Abut About daylight the second morning after their arrival the old man was beaten terrIbly and nd re relieved of a certificate of deposit of 01 about U and some few dollars in cash le lie said that York did It seen him him distinctly ana that hat when he cried out the young oun man whom he had befriended choked him into inS Yok disappeared but now comes the leter letter from Holt Hoit who clams claims to be a Provo man saying he did it himself Hols Clams Credit For Por Grime Sacramento to Cat Cal July 2 23 1900 Sal Salt Lk Lake Herald lW While hUe reading your paper July 16 say that had eorge Yori boole for an Old man I It Is is a mistake george had not ing to do wih with It George George York is working in a a re res restaurant onMan str t 1 the old oid I man So Dont git worried abour I George I see te the old man had the money and 1 followed turn him to the Yards ards and I when George GeQrge got up to go to work I slipped in bed 10 to make te the Old man think it was George eorge and when I 1 got good chance Ir him himI i iI I see George dras drag some mone money out of i the bank ann ana na le me he wa was going to sette settle on the Sunday Sunda so When I see aee the old man With al all or nis ms money I I thought I must have have some some went to work work He Be put his coat on and laid his vest on the Pillow He was going i ito to come back and set bet I it I guess that 1 ii how you come to think think I it gess w was s George lor br I went to Gerge George and told him that the old man had been robbed and scared him so he said he would leave It would So I said U 0 K he went wen to Se Seattle atte attle and I come here 1 looked at the check check it wa was zor lor U I tink think so 50 I took the money and skipped 7 dolar rs and 50 cent I tore checK chees inter S 2 and threw i it away So yer can tel tell Georges frends friends that It was not him that the old man Good bye Yours 1 am wel well acquainted In Provo Prove also in Salt Lae Lake t am wanted in Idaho and Montana for robber robbery Yours CHRISTIAN HOLT BOLT P SAk any of the boys In Provo about i and clear my old friend George I Yours Truly Chrt Christ Holt Bolt Sacramento CaL Osterloh Says it Was a York I Ernest Osterloh the old man nian whO wha was i beaten h has been out of the hospital sev several oral eral days His Injures injuries soon healed al although although though ver very He maintains that it wa was who did te the bad act act Why demmit he s says s I saw im standing right over me wih with the rocks in Is ands I knows im The officers at Provo when told of the contents ocer of Holts leter letter lat last night v von n tat that York himsel himself is it its autor author Nobody down tere there knows Christa Hol Bolt although there is a family by name name of Holt living Iving In Provo on the other hand Is wel well kown Were Vere t there therea er era a Provo boy oy wante wanted for the many crimes the ol credis credits himsel himself wih with there Is doubt that the sheriff of Utah county would know now of him |