Show FIGHT OVER THE REWARD OFFERED trill at Vernal Will Hold Cald Caldwell Caldwell well and Fraughton THE MEN DECLINE TO TALK CONFESSION ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN MADE Special to The Herald I utah Feb 23 via Price VERNAL V Albert Caldwell and David Fraughton the two men who have been identified as the Cody bank robbers were Interviewed b by p The Her Herald aid ald correspondent at the toda When asked if th they y had bad any state statement statement ment to make the they answered that they had not any more than that they were weve not the men men who held up the bank and killed Cashier They have secured the services ot of Attorney T L Mitchell to look after ater their In Interests interests who them in the jail today and they were no doubt act acting actIng ing under his instructions when hen they refused to talk Th declined to state whether they would fight the proposition to take them to Wyoming also refuses to dis discuss cuss CUES the case Waiting For Wyoming Officer Sheriff Horton is still here the arrival of ShA Sheriff riff Fenton of Big Horn count county WyominG W V L WaIts Walts who identified the men is a lawyer residing at Cody and at sev several eral times during the fracas Since seeing th the men again he Is more post positive tive than ever that they are the men wanted He identified Cold Cald Caldwell Coldwell well as the slayer of the cashier and andas andas as the man who fired at him Both Horton and Waits Walts have been very guarded in their statements realizing that thai both men have numerous rei rela relatives a atin tin tives 5 here Despite the bold front tt that at both men amen have assumed It can be seen beneath it that they are worried especially Caldwell Alleged Confession Sheriff Sherif believes that he has something that make it very Vcr dark for the two men which is nothing less lesa than a confession made by the he two men to Joseph Labrum of Deep Creek In this county several weeks ago ugo La Labrum bruni brum claims that they told him lIm that thE they were in the Cody bank robbery and fired several shots while in the theban ban bank k Labrum asked them it if they had killed anyone and the they said they did not think so Labrum lives fifteen milts northwest of Vernal on the outskirts of civilization and it was wl while le they were wele biding around that they ran across Labrum who is a dis distant distanti tanti tant relative of Caldwell Labrum will ma make e art an affidavit tomorrow to the statements that he has made concern concernIng Ing the story told to 10 him He states that Caldwell did the bhe talking and Fraughton merely endorsed statements is Had Been in Wyoming It is known that thit the men came front from Wyoming shortly after arter the Cody affair whIch tallIed w th the statement made mado at the thEt timEt b tho that the men had gone south uth after the robbery The story told by Caldwell to Labrum of his shooting at a man in the bank corresponds closely to the story told b by WaIts VaUse Today Fraughton when hen interviewed by The Herald corre correspondent correspondent stated that he never was in Cody In his life Caldwell merel merely stated that lie he was not implicated In t e rob robbery robbery bery They first signified a to be taken to Wyoming for trIal but when asked today It if the they still felt th the sa same ne way declined to talk The They evi evidently dently realize that the lines are ekes clos closing lug ing in around them and are fearful of saying something that will wili so go against them Sheriff Expected Today Sheriff Fenton of Big Horn county count I Wyoming is expected tomorrow or next da day to further identify them He will probablY aSk the governor of this state for requisition papers but there will no doubt be a legal fight for the ens cus custody tody of the men because of the reward for their capture Sheriff Prece claims to informed df d their connection with the Cody robbery when he made the arres arrest 1 and he will claim the reward He Hc stated today that he would not give the up un until til the matter of reward was settled Sheriff Horton will contend that Cald Caldwell well was not in custody when he arrested him at the court house be beIng big Ing out on lall for the he larceny larcen case It Itis Itis is not Improbable that If It develops that they have the right men that tha the case will go into the courts it Is settled |