| Show MURDER PLOT TOLD Bt FIVE BAD BOYS Quintet of Tough Youngsters Confess When Captured by Officers ADMIT MANY BURGLARIES ONE SAYS HE TO ROB HIS OWN BROTHER ER Confessing to scores of ot burglaries and even a plan to commit murder Ernest Howard age 18 15 James Jamas Whyte age 15 Elmer Eimer age 17 Dennis age 15 and Clarence Howard age 16 were arrested at Halliday last night by Dep uty Sheriff s wf Isaac C Emery and Juvenile r Court rt n Officer Charles Sperry Acting the part of fallen highwaymen and wearing an air of defiance much S after the nature of P portrayals by dime novels of f really desperate characters the youths boasted that they had broken Into the Hiram Neilson grocery in Halliday 30 times since last summer that they had on various occasions entered the Granite Mercantile company on the county road near Seventeenth South street and the Anderson Grocery company on the county road between Seventeenth South and Eighteenth South streets and also of the residence of at Mrs Anna Anderson in Halliday where they secured 15 from a trunk To Rob Own Brothers A tragic portion of the confession was was made by Ernest Howard and James Jams Whyte They admitted that they had schemed for weeks to secure th earn arn ings of Howards older brothers who are employed in brick yards in Halliday and regularly turn their wages to their aged mother Assuming bravado with flashing eyes Howard and Whyte said that they had planned d to hold up Mrs Howard shortly after her sons had turned the earnings over to her and that they would have shot to kill if she had hesitated The band of five desperate youths had taken all the necessary precautions of ol concealing themselves from authorities In a bank of Spring creek they had a dugout in which they had stored their loot and established a most complete li 11 of dime novels The dugout was equipped with tables blind doors can dies and the walls wails were hung with wi h crude weapons All had revolvers either on their person or cached In the dugout According to the youngsters the little dugout was originally intended for the breeding place of rabbits until the thought of a robbers roost and dime novel li Ii occurred to them Two days ago authorities were In Informed informed formed of the robbery in the residence of Mrs Anderson in which a trunk had been pried open One of the youngsters seemed to be well supplied with money yesterday afternoon He entered the Neil Neilson Neilson Neilson I son grocery and spent 60 00 cents for candy and cookies It later developed that other members of the quintet of robbers were also well supplied with money None Liked Work None of their parents had given them money and they are rarely known to have worked Suspicion then developed and the attention of authorities was called I Assisted by Juvenile Officer Sperry Deputy Sheriff Emery went Into Halliday yesterday to make an investigation Al Almost Almost Almost most instantly evidence began to pile up against the five fhe young men It was learned earned that the dugout in the bank of Spring creek had called for much of f their attention This was Investigated and scarcely had the Juvenile officer and the deputy sheriff entered the dive than they had become enlightened as to the source of recent robberies in Halliday In the hut was a quantity of silverware gloves and similar articles stolen from the gro gre grocery grocery cery stores and an abundance of trin trinkets trinkets trinkets After the investigation of the robbers roost the Juvenile officer and deputy sheriff scoured Halliday for the occupants occupants occupants pants and finally placed them under u der ar arrest arrest arrest rest Confronted by Sheriff She rift Joseph C Sharp in the county Jail jall the five youths seemed Willing to tell the tales of their past mat lives unfolding them much after the nature lature of a dime novel story |
