Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-06-07 | Page 3 | Campbell Says He Was Hold-Up

i I i i CAMPBELL SAYS f I I I HE WAS HOLDUP 0 I II II j I Ij I Y Youn Dung Man Admits That He Robbed Men in Lobby of Reed Hotel IRo Ro Roy Campbell who was atTested arrested on Tuesday evening on suspicion of being the bandit Hin tt who held up men In 1 the lobby of the Reed hotel botel early Tuesday morning ye yesterday e confessed feill ed to being beins tIN the and directed the officers to where they might find the money and gun gon He says he played a lone hand band but the police are of a 8 different opinion and believe belief that there were others who hada had K a hand in the game e Campbell according accord accordIng Ing to hk his own stor story did not expect to have to go up against five men when he be turned the trick but was figuring on landing the money mone that was in the ho hotel tel tat safe He needed some ready money moner to leave leae this part of the country He says he be hid In the grass back of the bl block Ck where the deed was committed all of Tuesday Jt t rained hard bard a greater eater portion of the day da but this did not drive him from his concealment When ben night again came on Campbell burled the money and the gun un at th the foot of a small knoll and then endeavored to reach hI room in the Opera house block with without ith out being S seen n The police were wait alt fug and the arrest followed The amount of money found in the place named was decidedly le lees s than that claimed to have been taken from those held up It it is thought that someone in his hig excitement nt counted hIS cash twice tice before he be it over