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Show COLORADO SLEUTH HAS VANISHED His Alleg-ed Prisoner Cannot Be Found in Ogdon City Jail. I E. H. Wilson, tho Pueblo detective who claimed to have arrested In Ogden Edward Easterly, thc supposed loader of the Cripple Creek, Colo., dynamiters, seems to have left no eluo- behind, cither to his own whereabouts or thc place whero he concealed his prteonor. Wilson boarded an eaetbound Rio Grande train ln this city Saturday night, after having told a friend ln confidence that he had Easterly in Jail In Ogden and intimating that he was likely to oapturo sevoral more of tho alleged dynamiters before leaving Utah. He claimed that the Colorado authorities authori-ties had positive evidence that Eart-erly. Eart-erly. who was secretary of the Altman Miners' union, in the Cripple Creole district, dis-trict, was tho man who actually eet off tho Infernal machine under tho dpot platform at Independence on June 0, which sent eleven non-union miners into in-to eternltj-. He further claimed that others who were- In the plot were known to the authorities nnd It was believed thai several of them were ln IhiB State. Wilson was In this city Beveral days the last week and It is known that he made at laaut ono trip to Ogden. He wan very mysterious ln his movements and so far as could be learned, took none of the city or county authorities here Into ills confidence. To an Intimate friend, however, he confined the object of. his quest and the Information that he had Easterly ln custody with many cautions that nothing bo said to the newsnaiier. It is known here that Wilson Is a detective de-tective on the police force of th& city of Pueblo, and tho Information has- also been received here that a man named Easterly was suspected of having been implicated in the Independence dynamite dyna-mite outrage. These facts con&idered together made the claim of the detective detec-tive In regard to the arrest of Easterly appear plausible, but the detective's' sudden disappearance at a time when his large Game was alleged to have been caught, and the further fact that no man answering Easterly's dlscrlptlon has recently been Incarcerated ln a Jail at Ogden, throws doubt upon the story of the capture. When Detective Wilson left his boarding board-ing place In this city Saturday night he Intimated that he might return soon, but in doing i?o maintained his usel air of mystery, insinuating that there was nothing at all certain about It. There nre some who believe that Wilson told the truth when he said that Easterly was ln custody, that ln consideration of a division of the $7000 reward said to have been offered for the fugitive, he made an arrangement with some official of-ficial or ollielals at Ogden whereby the-arrest the-arrest was to be kept quiet, and that In the meantime, while awaiting the arrival ar-rival of requisition papers from the Governor of his State' upon the Governor Gover-nor of Utah, he is scouting about the mining camps of this State In the hope of apprehending more of the dynamiters. dynami-ters. There are others, however, who believe be-lieve that Wlleon is something of a hot air artist: that he wanted to Impress his friend with the idea that he was a great detective, and thought that by imposing secrecy in the matter it might neer be known that he had not accomplished all that he claimed. As to his having claimed that Easterly was captured there Is not the slighest doubt, but the questions which at thts moment cannot be answered by local sleuths- "Where Is Easterly, and what has become of the detective who apprehended him?" |
