Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-11-30 | Page 3 | Sheriff Thinks He Has Train Bandit

SHERIFF THINKS HE HAS TRAIH BANDIT lorn Short Identified as (hie in the Great Northern Robbery. SEATTLE. Nov W.-ln the arrest of Iem Short. Sheriff Smith Is satisfied that he has one of the bandit who held up the Grc-it Northern overland train three miles north of Ballard on the night of October 2. Ho has been identified an the man who brought the food for the bandits' ban-dits' camp; he has practically admitted h stole the horse and buggy from Cal-hM.n's Cal-hM.n's barn at Kent on the nlstbt eforc the robbery, which w;i used hv the bandits ban-dits In niHkinp their escape from the scene of Ihe crime. Bought Two Revolvers. Short h.xs been Identified by a clerk In the Seattle Hardware store as one of the men who bought two revolvers on the morning of the hold-up. ' K.-rr m,-. Corty, who Is known to the Plnkertons as the man who crawled over the tender and hold up the engineer, the hardware clerk says, accompanied Short when he bought the revolvers. Short and M-Carty were joen near the hold-up less than an hour before It took place. Deputy Sheriffs Hill and McKln-non, McKln-non, who made the arrest, will claim re-j re-j wards of