Show Any citizen of Salt Lake who has the desIre or the curiosity to learn something some-thing of police work in its most interestIng I inter-estIng phases cannot put a day to greater advantage than by gding through and inquiring into the hIstory of the hundreds of clesocontained in the cabInet of testaments to crime at police headquarters The assortment of stuffthe collection of thirtyfive or forty earsls so varied that Itis difficult dIffi-cult for the average mind to compre llend hat of what there is in it Placed upon the scales in a mass It would weigh perhaps a half ton and sold for all it is worth would bring a sum sufficient suffi-cient to support rl family for a good long period Anything from a counterfeit coun-terfeit Scent pIece to an infernal machine ma-chIne can be seen there and the crude manner of construction of some of the relics are interesting studIes There are about 2000 keys of all shapes and sizes taken from prisoners prison-ers or found on the streets fifty Is a close guess at the number of serviceable service-able pistols two or three dozen bowie knives hundreds of assorted cartridges drills files jimmies dark lanterns slingshots masks brass knuckles and other articles to be found among burglars burg-lars and thugs abound In countless masse and the gruesome is well represented rep-resented by the upper half of a skull whose body was never known Enoch Davis Crime One of the most conspicuous objects in the cabInet recalls the crime of which Enoch Davis was convicted five rears ago that of wIfemurder He was executed In the southern end of the county Sept H 1894 and a section of the back brace of his death chair f has been preserved telling a mute tale at justice A piece of paper which happened to be a blank prescription of Ji Dr J S Witcl1er was placed over the s dead mans heart with the bullseye 01 ink None of the shots fired struck the i bullseye fair but one penetrated Just on the outer edge while the paper was twIce pierced to the side of the smaller target as shown in the cut TsseT I fLqcEo I JovE J-ovE I Ji1thiL j Section of the back brace of Uie chair 1n which Wifemurderer Enoch Davis was Shot The bullets penetrated the board threequarters of an inch after passing through Dais body The paper shown in the cut was placed over the murderers heart These same three bullets passed through Davis body and buried themselves them-selves in the hack brace Davis crime was fiendish After striking his wife in the head twice with some sharp instrument he buried the corpse in an ash pit His defense was that he found one Dr Butler In the act of criminal Intimacy with his wife and had struck at him but it was shewn conclusively that Dr Butler was not in the city at all The scene of the crime was near Vernal In Uintah county Grave Robbers Skull By some old tradition among the police po-lice the skull and the battered helmet shown In the drawIng are linked They are among the most ancient objects of the collection and nobody connected with the police force in this late day appears to know from whence either of them sprung I t 1 r Helmet and skull pointed out as belong lug to John Babtiste the gravedigger There is a certain amount of mystery shroudins the real history of the articles which are among the oldest relics in the cabinet The most harrowing theory Is of course thc most interesting so the police po-lice are content to call It the headgear worn by John BabUste the grave robber rob-ber banished to Antelope island many ears ago and the skull they point out f as being that of the same individual found ten years later with the brand thle sun on the forehead Others have it that the skull was dug up out of an excavatIon and that the helmet i i was among the loads of clothing taken by Babtlste from the dead and discovered dis-covered in his house in the Twent first ward The helmet still carries a yard or sos so-s of gilt cord to which Is attached a tar eel The number 16 Is displayed In a wreath on the front The Born Boras flora bora is a name originating in the fertile brain of exDesk Sergeant Jim Adams and applied to all clubs and weapons found in the jail There were many of them too Jailer Kimball during his long service has discovered about fifteen formidable black jacks in the bunks of prisoners doubtless intended in-tended to be used upon him Luckily thc opportunity never came but as each one of the crude weapons was discovered discov-ered it was given a place among tile relics and quite a collection is the re suit Some of these are works of Ingenuity In-genuity A broom handle usually served as a substance with a section of sewer pipe or pkee of soldering lead bound to one end by a strIp of a blanket blan-ket A hole was cut through the other end and a piece of buckskin looped < through making it almost Impossible I to disarm a man when he once had It on his wrist The round of a chair with a piece of hoe coverIng it con fitltuted another The rora bras weighed usually about ten pounds each Broke IDs Handcuffs James Griffin a partially demented man held for burglarizing the Bountl IuI postoffiee performed nn unusual seat In the spring of D2 breaking by she r force the mapacles that bound his wrists GrIffin was a desperate criminal crimi-nal While standing in the desk ser gcant room after his capture he brought his tWO sts dovn on an Iron railing with such force that the handcuffs i hand-cuffs snapped in two He then made a t dash for liberty but was intercepted r by two otllcers at thc door While he was In the pen GrIffin invented vented a door key as a protection against burglars The ordinary key left in a door can be turned by pincers pin-cers from the outside but Griffins proposition prop-osition had a swlelUke end that made the use of pincers Ineffective The ratchet or safe drill and lat tered combination lock shown were the property of Tames A Ransom a no torlous safecracker He was sent up i T ecTr TTT for four months for having burglarS tools In his possessi Several pounds of dynamite was ound on his per 82 e 5S 1eapons constructed by prIsoners and intended fOI use in jail delivery 2 i Handcuffs broken by Burglar James i Griffin 3Safe drill ana dilapIdated com binatlon lock found on Safecracker Ran I uo na iw i som 4Base money and melting spoon used IJy Counterfeiter Hibard 5Imita i i Uon gold nugget GPadlock IlIad off jaIl door 7Knife used by Morgan Thomas in attempting suicide I son Apparently he was fully equipped for an expedition a The ratchet could be placed In front of a safe door and the drill worked by a crank Its quality was superior anI it is estimated that the drill could be run through three inches of the finest steel In one hour Counterfeiter John Hibard was arrested ar-rested in 1893 with Dan Hines and James Patterson in a room on West Temple street by Detective Sheets who turned them over to a secret serviceman service-man The room was filled with instruments instru-ments Including plaster paris moulds and casts and base money Most of these articles were sent to Washington Sheets savingalong melting spoon and a handful of bogus nickels as mementoes memen-toes Hlbard got six years and his I1artners shorter terms Bogus Gold Nuggets The prettiest imitation of a gold nugget nug-get ever seen was taken from the looted room of a fleeing confidence man one day several years ago It was a simple piece of lead are chipped and gilded and would deceive most anybody not familhr with the metal in Its native form Notorious Sam Grice and a companion compan-ion once effected their escape from the city jaIl by sawIng a padlock off the corridor door It was a clean job very cleverly worked out One man reached his hand through the bars and held the lock securely while the other sawed it through The saw was smuggled into the jail which Is a very easy performance perform-ance not half the prisoners being searched under their outside clothing when Incarcerated Detectivc Sheets once found seven jail saws sewed in a prisoners necktie and three others in the crown of his hat Early last June a young man named Morgan Thomas who was under Jailer Klmballs treatment for the morphine habit cut his throat The knife used had only a twoinch blade and the jagged edge literally sawed Its way through the unfortunates throat He suffered a great deal but did not succeed suc-ceed in his rash attempt The knife I belonged to Eph KellYl Infernal Machines I Salt Lakers remember well the three infernal machines the police have had Ito I-to deal with and the diabolical plots I foiled by their discovery The more I recent attemDts UDon the lives ot Warden War-den Dow md Judge O W Powers aeq fresh In the minds ot the pUblic Three years ago a man by the name of Pfltzer nearly succeeded In blowing several souls into eternity by the use of dynamite dyna-mite Pfltzer cherished an old grudge aJalnst his brotherinlaw whose name was Icyers and placed a real infernal machine in the basement of the latters home on Third South It was a cylin dershaped affair filled wIth dynamite and black powder with the top Screwed on A dozen matches were on top of I 3 i Infernal machine placed by Dynamiter Dyna-miter Pfitzer under his brotherInlaws house 2A ptring of hypodermic needies taken from prisoners under trmtment 3Qplum pipes coni1cated in raiding hop joints the cXDloslYes and a piece of sand paper pa-per layover them A string was attached at-tached to this and tied to the doorknob door-knob so that when the cellar door was I opened the sand paper would Ignite the matches the matches the powder and a terrific explosion would result I Ierers escape was hairraising He DulleiJ the door aDen one day but luckily the string broke Nevertheless the sand naDPr bore marks of having nassed over the matches The breakIng break-Ing of the string was all that prevented the tracedv Officer Shannon carried i Burglars equipmentaarl lanterns masks and brass knuckles the deathdcallne Instrument to police headauarters where It was opened bone b-one of the BrownIng brothers Pfltzer Is In the Montana penitentiary doing time for defrauding the government bounties Opium smokers paraphernalia constitute con-stitute a good part of the collection Even time a mint has ben raid d all thc Ioods have been confisCilted and besldee a big bundle of pipes there are lamp and cooked pills needles and all the other peculiar Implements best known to the Chinese The hyp needles used by morphine fiends are kept on long strings and the number Is constantly Increasing j With the exception of a Jimmy a dark lantern and aflCe mask are the most likely articles to be found In a burglars possession There are many of them in the cabinet One of the lanterns shown in the cut was made from a tomato can one side being cutout cut-out and a candle Inserted It was taken from a desper te housebreaker several ears ago The braSs knuckle ISacommon weapon weap-on Thecrude one of the two pictured was turned out by a blacksmith and is of iron A man could bq klllefby a blow with It The cabinet contains many pistols connect with local tragedies The sixshooter with which Llday killed his 3vearoldchIld and himself the gun used by Van Gunder In slaughtering his two children and killing himself F J I111s pistol and J H Ben brooks murderous weapon are all there There are relics of the Francis Herntans horror the bones of Miss Clausen found In the furnace of the church being well Dresened |