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Show Hit Shannon, io Reminiscent Mood, Telfs of Pseudo-Holdops II Bights ago a colored man polico headquarters and recited jtorj of how ho bad been rob-rer$i00. rob-rer$i00. Tho man was dressed lit and Tumper, which were cov-i'a cov-i'a white powder, plainly in-tjliat in-tjliat he was a plasterer by liter telling n story of how the mocked him down and snatched v.from him, the man ended bis irinjj that he bad intended" to irifo somo money and was very i he could not do so. That leirct of the whole affair. The framed up tho holdup story ptr would nave an excuse to his, wife about tho missing riu'eh. without doubt, did not for dollars. iUct the colored man to hcad-tedled hcad-tedled to the mind of Liou-Hciard Liou-Hciard Shannon a number of utanccs, where men had lost )j gambling and framed up lories to keep the truth from Ifnj; about some of the in-jfeutenant in-jfeutenant Shannon said: "It r it fnnnv what , men will do sUUinjj their wives tho truth Kir fiianev affairs. Some tirao '.man telephoned polico head-, I tlat he had beeu bold up and ind one of the robbers had Gred l,iitn, tho bullet going through iKl. Two detectives were quickty Jyie man's homo and there they supposed victim of the rob-wf-preat excitement. Tho mau Bost minute description of the ind told in a most realistic ifcjast what they did in carrving f ioldap. After the mnn "had mipeakiBR his wife asked him if niB that ho bad told the of-TOtrytlung. of-TOtrytlung. Ho answered that bo surely had. Then tho wife informed ' her husband and two detectives that she had something to tell. Tho woman said she was standing in the front door and saw her husband coming up "tho sircot. Just before ho arrived in front of their home sho saw him take off his hat and with his revolver fire a bullet directly through it. She then walked through the house to the back door and met her husband there, and when he began tolling how be bad been hold up and came so close to being killed, she simply kept quiot. Tho shot through tho hat was so close to the brim that if tho bullet bad passed through the headgear head-gear when in place it surely would havo killed him. n "Another man camo running into the desk sergeant's office one night with a big scar on his bead saying he bad been hit with a club and robbed of a big roll of bills. Well, when the truth was learned, tho man admitting it himself, it proved that he had been in the northern north-ern part of the state working and when he arrived iu Ogden joined in a gambling gam-bling game and lost ail his earnings. Whon ho arrived in Salt Lake he felt ashamed to go homo without any money so took off his hat and bumpod his bead against a tree. Investigation showed blood and hair on thfe bark of the tree tho man had bumpod against. m "With his coat completely covered with dust a man came mnning into the station ono night and said he had been knocked down and robbed. Wo asked him to take off his coat and bo did so. In the insido could plainly bo seen footprints whero the man "had takon off bis coat, laid it in the street and then stamped on it to get it dustj'. His bat was not. in the least soiled. U 1r M "Why, I could sit here for hours telling tell-ing you about men who have been robbed, according to their own stories, but. investigation showed they were only j trying to dodge a board hill, "alimony or I accounting to a wifo for money lost over the green plush. - . "Another thing which scorns strange to me is that a person that gets robbed j cannot givo a better description of the ! highwayman. Then a man who gets j robbed will nearly alwaj's say that he I lost $50 when bo never had but. $5 in j bis pockets. j "Of course, we have to investigate , these holdups regardless of how untrue l wo think the stories told by the victims are and out of overj' live cases roportod I it is safe to say not more than two aru robbed. ' ' |
