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Show warn BLAMED FOR B1H0BB1 Bert Heaton, in Confession, Calls Him "Brains" of Raid. Bert Heaton, charged with having held up and robbed the Bingham State bank of $16,500 on the afternoon of December De-cember 29, declared when he was arraigned ar-raigned before Judgo E. A. Rogers in the city court yesterday that the mas-tor mas-tor mind of the dariug venture was Scott Cunningham. Hia statements in this connection came as a surprise to everyone except members of the county attorney's staff, who had alreadv read Heaton''s confession, made 1'riday night, that he was the man who had entered en-tered the bank, tied employees and made away with the money. The stolen cash was recovered at tho time Heaton.' was arrested. Heaton insisted that he had not con- i ! f essed under duress of any wort, fie explained that he had entered a pica of not guilty in tho hope that Cunning- j ham would arrange for his release on bond when, be declared, he would have dropped out of sight. Ho said that he had met Cunningham through a man known as "Blacky Smith," a gambler. It was Cunningham, he said, who had planned tho robbery, and had even fur- 1 Dished him with maps and diagrams of ; tho vicinity of the bank. Heaton, in answer to a question, admitted that he bad served time in the Oregon penitentiary, peni-tentiary, but the objections oi his attorneys" at-torneys" to his stating the nature of the crime of which he was convicted were sustained. Cunningham, who is under $4000 bond on a chargo of complicity in the bank robbery, and $1000 on a "charge of carrying car-rying concealed weapons, did not take the stand during tho Heaton hearing. Wilson McCarty, deputy county attorney, attor-ney, moved for an inquiry into the bonds which ho had turnishod, and JurUre Rogers set the hearing nn this i point for tomorrow morning. IT is sureties sure-ties are his mother and a brtoher-in-law. At the conclusion of the hearing J. .T. "W hi taker, who. with Xevlii Jensen, is defending the prisoner, moved a dis- i missal of the charge of robberv. Judge Rogers announced that ho would decide the motion tomorrow. NfeCarty asked thn court to have Cunningham Cun-ningham remanded to the custody of the wherifF pending investigation of the bonds under which he is eninving his liberty, but Judge Rocm decided thnt, inasmuch hh tho accused had mado no effort to leave the state ninco tho bonds were approved by a justice of tho peace ; at Bingham, this was unnecessary. |