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Show ROBBER SUSPECT SEJPSON Officers Believe They Have Lay-ton Lay-ton Bank Cracksman in Willard Springhurst. ALSO THOUGHT GUILTY OP HOLDUP AT CLIFT HOUSE Curly Thompson, Pal of Spring-hurst, Spring-hurst, Will Probably be Captured Today. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Juno 1. After' a tcrrille struggle strug-gle In tho Broom hotel tills morning, shortly aUor 12 o'clock, Deputy Sheriffs Axel Steele and Samuel No well of Salt Lake county overpowered Willanl Spring-hurst, Spring-hurst, who Is wantted In Sale Lake City for the alleged robbery of ihc Cllft house clubrooms and sevoral other crimes there, In addition to the attempted robbery of the Lnytoit City bank and the holdup of a saloon at Park City. Salt Lake ofllcrs nave been shadowing shadow-ing Sprlnghurst for several days, and located him TuesJay nJght Just after ne had returned lrom an automobile ride. With a companion whom he picked up since coming to Ogd.-o sovorul days ago, Sprlnghtirst was on his way :o his room al the Broom Hotel when he was grabbed by the oftlcers half-way up the staircase. stair-case. While Deptuy Sheriff, Nowcll pinned his arms behind him, Steele snapped the handcuffs. Sprlnghurst refused to talk, but the of-IlccrTsay of-IlccrTsay they can connect him with the crimes mentioned, .is veil as a numbe: of other robberies committed in Suit Lake In the last few months. Sprlnghurst had left I1I3 revolver in Ills room, bat a handful hand-ful of .38-callber cartridges were found in his pocket. - , , A $C00 diamond taken frOni ono of the men at the Cllft house was left at a local pawnshop Monday. Tuesday Sprlnghurst Sprlng-hurst returned with the pawn ticket, which he sold for $315. The Salt Lake officers aro now looking for "Curly" Thompson, Sprlnghursl's pu and expect to Und him Wednesday morn L lug. Thompson Is wanted in Salt Lake City on the charge of passing a number of forged checks In addition to the part alleged to have been taken by him in the other crimes. Sprlnghurst was formerly a lineman, and through this training would have been able to cut out telephone communication after the attempted robbery of the Lay-ton Lay-ton bank as was dono by one of the robbers. rob-bers. Sprlnghurat's homo is In Taylors-vlllc. Taylors-vlllc. whore It Is said he Is well connected. con-nected. He arrived In Ogden several days ago and has attracted considerable attention at-tention by the reckless manner in which ho has been spending money. He will bo taken to Salt Lake City this (Wednesday) morning. |