| Show lONG HARD CHASE FOR A CRIMINAL Detective Joe Days Pursuit by byS byI I S Sea and Land of Port Portland Portland land Offender CAPTURED IN LIVERPOOL CROOK INJURED BY JUMPING FROM TRAIN John Thomas Thompson who was cap captured captured by Detective Joseph Day ot of Port Portland Portland land In Liverpool England after atter a chase lasting three years and extending halt half halfway way around the world and who on Thursday morning leaped from a flying passenger train In a desperate attempt to escape was brought to Salt Lake yes yesterday yesterday morning after his recapture by Detective Day and passed several hours In the city jail here Ho He was taken to Portland last night Thompson Is charged with the theft ot of horn flom Villiam Winter the ot of the Log Cabin saloon In Portland on Oct 16 lie He was wa em empo employed po ed as a bartender In the Log Cabin saloon aloon at that time On that date tel ter wert on a fishing trip giving Thomp Thompson son the combination to the safe and placing him In charge of the saloon As soon a he had ascertained that Win Winter tel ter had taken the train out of town Thompson opened the safe and took from It 1600 worth of diamonds and t cash After stealing the money and dia diamonds diamonds monds he disappeared Located In Edinburgh A month later hp he Was located In Edin Edinburgh Edinburgh burgh Scotland The Portland officers cabled to the authorities In Scotland to arrest Thompson Before the officers were able to reach him however he had left the country The next place he was heard from Was In Oklahoma Three hours before the police reached the hotel at which he Was stopping Thompson lad ad again aJain dropped out of sight After a lapse ot of several months he was seen In San Antonio Tex last October by a man named Healy who kne knew Thompson and knew that he was wanted In Portland Mealy Heah pointed Thompson out to the po police lice Ike ot of San Antonio and he was arrested The Portland authorities were notified but through a misunderstanding the chief of police at Portland lid did not reply and Thompson was released In the meantime a reward of had been offered for the capture of at Thomp eon It was later reduced to 00 A Toledo man who knew Thompson when he lived at Toledo located Thompson last spring at the Porter hotel In the City of Mexico lie He notified Detective Joseph Day of the sheriffs office In of his lis discovery Requisition papers were and Detective Da Day started for Mexico to get the fugitive When the officer reached Tc Tucson son Aria Ariz he received telegraphic communication from the po police police lice at Mexico that Thompson had once more eluded the flue officials Chased to Montreal Through the postal posta authorities it was learned that Thompson had gone to Mon Jon Montreal treal Detective Day at once went to the Canadian city arriving there only to learn that his man had gone to Liverpool After reaching Liverpool Thompson sent word ord to the postmaster at Mexico to for forward forward ward his mail to the Lion street station In Liverpool The postal officials notified the Amer an ambassador to Mexico and he In turn wired this fact to Secretary of State Elihu Root The state department through Ambassador Reid asked the British officers to aid In the search for Thompson At the same time Detective Da Day after arranging the necessary official red tape necessary to extradite the fugitive set sail for Cor Liverpool When hen he reached there Thompson was in France The or of officer continued the chase to Paris and learned that his man had returned to England Detective Day had crossel crossed the channel from Crom Folkstone to Bordeaux and the same da day Thompson had sailed from to Dover Warm on the trail the detective found that Thompson had stop stopped stopped ped at the New York and London hotel In hI Paris and had ordered his mall mail sent to Edinburgh Back to Edinburgh the detective pur pursued pursued sued his fugitive arriving there a few hours too late Once more the postal authorities came to the res e and through them It was learned that the much wanted and much pursued man had returned to Liverpool leaving word that his mail should go as before to the Lion street station Together with some Scot Scotland Scotland land Yards detectives Mr Day lay In walt wait for Thompson Capture in Liverpool After waiting about three hours a jaun H dressed man walked Into the post postoffice postoffice office and asked for mall mail addressed to John Thomas Thompson He was at once arrested At the time ot of the capture which was on May 19 Detective Da Day had been scouring the British Isles and the continent for two months always close behInd his man manIt manIt It look ook thirty da days s to get the official papers necessary to obtain the return of the fugitIve to America A warrant signed b by President Roosevelt for the ar arrest arrest rest of Thompson had to be obtained and anda i a permit to take Thompson from Eng England England land bearing the royal sea seal In the mean meantime meantIme time the prisoner was detained In Brixton prison arraigned and remanded twice by bythe bythe the justice at the Bow street station During his stay In London Detective Da Day was given an audience with Uh the king and admitted to several royal functions While awaiting the government processes the officer traveled through Ireland and Wales Vales On June 9 the officer and prIsoner set sail for America on the Campania arrivIng ins Ing In New York a week later Thomp Thompson son flon was detained at the Mulberry Iun rry street station two days before the journey across the continent was begun The trIp was until the they left Den DenYer Denver Yer ver About three miles out of at Denver Thursday morning when the detective was preparing to put the handcuffs on his man Thompson suddenly threw him himself himself self from the train through an open yes ves vestibule The train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour and It seemed os as though he must meet certain death Officers in Pursuit Again Before the astonished officer could have havethe havethe the train stopped it had gone a consid considerable considerable erable distance beyond the place Thompson had leaped from the train It seemed more advisable for the officer to to Castle Rock the next stop stopping ping place miles farther than to walk back to where he had lost hilt hiltman hi himan man At Castle Rock Detective Da Day wired the Denver police to look for the tho thoman theman man and ami he caught the next train back bac to Denver In the meantime the desperate leap ot of Thompson had been witnessed by a num number number ber of Rio Grande th the track and by Dr Horace S Hooper of at 70 0 Jason street D nver Who was drivIng driving Ing back from a call at Valverde Col The rho doctor and the railroad men hurried hurrle to the place where the man had tall fallen en Thompson was as apparently suffering much pain It was afterwards found that two ribs and his collar bone was broken and that his scalp was severely lacer lacerated lacerated Dr Cooper took the injured man to hi his office and dressed his Injuries Thomp Thompson son Ron gave his name to the doctor as T TV TW W V Lawton ot of 1213 Tremont street Den Denv Denver v ver r He said that he had been ill III an anIn and andIn In n a moment of at dizziness had leaped from the train In payment for tor the doctors doctor services Thompson gave the physician D pin set with diamonds and garnets an and valued at ZOO 00 He pawned his watch In Ina ina a lower Seventeenth street jewelry store stor for and bought a ticket for Chey Cheyenne cane enne His Injuries caused him consid conald considerable erable pain and at Che Cheyenne enne he gave himself up to the conductor of thol th train trail Friday Frida morning Detective Day reached J Cheyenne two hours later and brought the prisoner to Salt Lake Said He Tried Suicide Thompson is a well dressed handsome handsom man 43 years ears old He said that he had haIJ Intended committing suicide when hE leaped from the train He said that hE was sorry he had done so Thompson s sd Id he Intended to plead guilty to the UIE charge of grand larceny against him il in POrtland Of the taken by Thomp Thompson son iW still remains and this the pris prisoner prisoner oner said he would return to the state to pay the reward for hs hIs capture an anto and to pay a portion of the expense In the search for him The reward will go to I Ithe the Toledo man who first located the u tive In I L 1 |
