Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-27 | Page 1 | Murder Suspects Closely Guarded

MURDER SUSPECTS . CLOSELY GUARDED Men Charged With Slaying Bank Cashier Cash-ier Are Taken to Stronger i Prison. STERLING, Colo., Feb. 26. Charles Thompson, who is charged with shooting shoot-ing and killing John Brunks in a robbery rob-bery of the Farmers' State bank at Haxtun yesterday, and Charles Rose, held in connection with the crime, were secretly removed from jail at an early hour today and taken to Holyoke. Throughout the night the Sterling jail was heavily guarded by officers and citizen deputies. Thompson denied that he was the robber rob-ber of the bank, saying that the bandit fled in the opposite direction from that which he toolt. Witnesses at the coro-j ner's inquest over the body of Brunks,' however, identified Thompson as the; man seen to come across from the bank, ! carrving a small, heavy sack, mount a : horse and ride away, spilling money i along his line of flight. j