Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-06 | Page 14 | Cook Identifies Men who Beat Him

! COGK WIRES : MEN WM II Quintette, Arrested in Wyo-; Wyo-; j ming, Are Taken to Og-j Og-j den by Sheriff. I Special to The Tribune. , j OGDEN, Aug. 5. Identified by Nel-! Nel-! son Cook as the men who bat him into j j insensibility and then stripped him of ; i his clothing, five men arrested at ! j Evan st on, Wyo., early yesterday morn-. morn-. I ing were brought to Ogden by Sheriff T. A. DeVine and Deputy Sheriff J. L. Hobson today. They pave their names ; j as Albert Johnson," George Duncan, Adolph Schwartz, Harry Miller and i James Rose. All are between 19 and 23 i vears of age. All are charged with highway robbery. Cook identified every man of the five as one of the number who attacked him in the local railroad yards. One of the fang wore Cook's new clothes, another is Bhirt, and a third his shoes. All 1 j five denied having ever seen Cook. The ; men arrested bv the Evanston authori-! authori-! ! ties at first refused to make the trip to Ogden without requisition papers, but finally signed waivers. Sheriff DeVine while in Evanston discovered that the men who robbed Cook had thrown the revolver taken from him into the ice compartment of the refrigerator car in which the conductor con-ductor locked them during the trip from Ogden to Evanston. The Wyo-! Wyo-! . ming authorities failed to locate the re-! re-! volver holster, watch and several other i articles alleged to have been taken from Cook before" they locked him in the box car of the eas'tbound freight out of this city.