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Show ROBS eiHGHIM BANK; CAUGHT M51 6,492 Holdup Is Perpetrated by ; One Man; Employees Are Eound and Locked in Vault. RELEASE SELVES AND QUICKLY GIVE ALARM Capture of Alleged Robber Is Effected Within Thirty Minutes; Money Returned Re-turned to Bank. The Bingham State bank at Bingham Canyon was held up at 3:45 o'clock ; yesterday afternoon by an tmmasked man and $16,492 in gold and enrrency taken. Within thirty minutes after tho commission of the holdup a man giving his name as Bert Heaton wag under arrest ar-rest ("barged with tbe crime, and tho money had been recovered and returned to the vaults of tbe bank. The robbery was one of the boldest ever perpetrated in Utah. At the point ot ft gun the robber forced Cashier Earl Randall, Assistant Cashier George Dob-son Dob-son and Henry Oddie, an office boy, to lie upon their faces on the floor, while 1 he tied their hands behind them. Ho then compelled Cashier Randall, on pain of death, to reveal the combination to the vault. The robber then unlocked the door to the Etrong box, placed the money in, a bag, locked the men in the vault and leisurely walked put of tho bank. Positively Identified. , After bis capture Heaton was posi- tively identified by the bank employees ! as tho man who perpetrated the rob- ! j bery. j Four men and four women Scott Cnn- t ! n Ingham, George Willis, E. J. Turner. F. H. Welsh, "Peggy" and Xorcna Dean, ' ! Lola Kendall and Odray Kemp are being ( held by the police as accomplices of Heaton, Hea-ton, and all except "Peggy" Dean and , Odray Kemp were brought to Salt Lake last night and locked in the county jail. Cunningham conducts the St. Joseph road house and the other two men are strangers stran-gers in Bingham, supposed to have been. i there in search of work. The women are , ; all residents of Bingham- j' The quick capture of the robber 1b due 1 to tbe foresight of the bank officials, who have long expected just such an emer gency. In anticipation of such an event, a hammer, a screwdriver and lamps had ; been placed In the vault, the vault slightly ventilated and the employees ' made familiar with the method of removing remov-ing the lock from the inside. Furthermore, Further-more, the bank officials had protected the institution by insurance so that even in case the money had not been recov- ercd neither tho bank nor the deDositora would have lost a penny. Boy Does Good Work. ; ! But the real feature of the capture I was a pocket knife given to Henry Od-i Od-i die, a 14-year-old high school boy, who : works in the banlt alter school hours and on holidays. Lying helpless in the vault, : the three men strained every muscle to i break their bonds, but to no avail. At last, in groping around In the dark, with his hands lied behind him. Oddie felt . the knife in his hip pocket. Stuffing both hands into the pocket, he managed ; to withdraw the knife. It fell to the floor. ' Dobson found It. opened it and, after several trials, managed to sever the rope that held Oddie's hands, and soon all three men were released. As soon as the men heard the robber close the door of the bank after him the men set to work feverishlv with the hammer and screwdriver screw-driver and in a very few minutes the lock of the vault had been removed and tho prisoners were telling the police what had happened. Heaton, the alleged robber, made no attempt to conceal his movements, evidently evi-dently figuring that the men would not be released for several hours, lie had rvt the bank, gone by the police station onlv two doors above, back of the station sta-tion and up the mountainside to the Copper Belt track of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad: foDowed the Yampa spur down the canyon and across the trestle, left the track back of the Star Livery stable, went to the stabio and ordered a Capture Is Effected. While the rig was being gotten ready 1 he crossed tho street to the yard of tho Bingliam Coal &; Lumber company and went into an outbuilding. Before enter- ; Ing the outbuilding Hps ton talked to Manager O'Shea of the Bingham Coal & Lumber company. .lust as Heaton entered en-tered the building O'Shea was called to , the telephone and notified of the robbery and told to look out for tbe robber. j "He's right here now," waft O'Sh-a's j A&'Hit the same time Patrolman White . I arrived at the yard on the trail of the robber. O'Shea told the officer where Heaton was. Tho word was passed quickly to Henrv Seblein. a teamster of I the Bingham Coal & Lumber company, and Rex Holdcn. a bystander. 8eblien ran Into the company's office aJtd obtained a gun and the three men advanced on the outbuilding. Piping through a knothole. knot-hole. White Haw Heaton cutting off his swea tor and overalls, underrn-al h which he wore a good suit of street clothing. Whito arid geblb'-n covered Heaton with guns" through the cracks in the walls inu ordered him to surrondr-.r, whilr TlnMn : broke in the door. Hastily dropping 'lie : money n nd Ids gun through a hole In the . floor, Heaton surrenripred without re- ! (Continued on Page Nine DM ROBDEDT BUT MDe RECOVERED (Continued from Pn.no One.) si-Mum-.-. Tim arrest was nuihn about i:it tind tht money r.-.-overeil. About I la Miniu tunc 1'epillv Shtrll f Al Pauif-ch uollcd that Scuti Cunnlinihatii wa. hurricdlv settmi? his a ut i m d l l-ready l-ready t,i leave town. Having inf-.rnui lion that Cunnlnnlitim n rd Heat.m had been toe,-tber tlif nlKllt bef.tre. und pnrt of e-torday e-torday iiKuntri, 1'autseh suindsed thai tho haste io leave at that moment, aflei-the aflei-the Miitomohtle bah been siandinn In front of tho police Million nearly twenty-four hours, had noine, connection ' with the robbery rob-bery and Cumiltmlium wan Immediai.-lv placed under iutcM. Further linvsiln.i-tlons, linvsiln.i-tlons, tin police pay. revenled that Heaton und OunnuiKham had bem with Turner, Welsh and the four women the ninht before be-fore und that one of the women stood on, the porch of the Plncham Mercantile com- pauy's More, ncros fiom t'ue bank, whll j tile robbery was hell: conuiilltetl. I Though all of the peion, un-ested em- I ph.uicully deny any knowle.t;e of iho rob- j bery, I lea ion hay not atisiuctortly accounted ac-counted lor having the monev In his possession, pos-session, and the police sny "they believe they liuve sutl'icleiit e 'Me nee to connect all thiae under arrest with the crime. The theory (hat the oifloers- are, working on Is that the robbery had hem planned for several days und that Cunningham was only waiting for the hkiimI that the deed bud been omuiiitd to speed down the canyon, pick up Heaton und niako for rial; Lake. Money Identified. The money found In the outbuilding was re t u r n ed to the hn n k and t d e n t i f i e d b v Cashier Randall. Tho bills of various denominations de-nominations w ery done up In puekuijes wrapped with slips bearin- the stamp f the liiutrham State bank. As a further identification, v.beii the packages of cur-I'fiicy cur-I'fiicy aiul tho baps of pold Were presented ai the bunk, cashier Randall to!,i to the dollar the amount m each package and Imp. Of tlit monev taken, $:o0 was in KoUt und the remainder In currency and sliver. Cashier Randall's Story. Tha t the i obberv- was cleverly planned and daringly executed. Is inds ated by the story of Cashier Randall which follows: Tho nun who perpetrated the rob-ben- htis been around town two or three weeks und passed himself off as an Italian laborer. Yesterday afternoon aft-ernoon about the time the bank was closed lie came Into the bank und told me. in the broken Publish of un Italian, that he had about SlhOO in cash that he wished to deposit this afternoon. I e made inquiries as to the safety of the vault in a suspicious manner common to foreigners. Jusi about tiie time we were getting get-ting ready to close up today, he appeared ap-peared uain with a good-sized bunhle under his arm. The bundle, he said, contained ihe money, but he did not wisa to make the deposit until the arrival ar-rival of Ids wife, who was coming in from the country. He told us that he wanted about JS0 in silver for immediate immedi-ate expenses und some to eend his :nothr in Pe'sium und the balance would be deposited in the bank. Waits for an Hour. j After waiting almost an hour ard until all customers had pone, the man said that he wouldn't wait any longer for his wife and asked that Dobi-on, Oddie and I should come with him into tiie cashier'? office to count the money. Expecting a considerable deposit de-posit of money of various denominations, denomina-tions, we brought pencils and pads of paper, prepared to make a careful coji t and check. No suoncr wvre we s eu t e d than the fellow drew a gun and oru-r-d the f ree of us to throw-up throw-up our bands. Then he threatened to kill us If we didn't he face down on the ilocr. Knowing tra t the bank was fully protected by insurance and not caring car-ing to lead any funeral procession?, we did as we were told. The package suppose-1 to have contained money-was money-was quickly torn open and enough rope produced to tie all of us. After f-inc our hands behind us. the robber ! carcfuliy closed and locked the door. Then ugain, on a threat of death. l" torced me to tell him t ie combination combina-tion io the vault. I mid him. lb-tried lb-tried three times without success to open the door. Then, swearing fearfully fear-fully and declaring that I had given nim the wrong combination, he threatened to shoot me. I tld him t:iat I Idd i veil him the n&ht information in-formation and that If he wasn't so nervous and would tr- carefully, the do r wouH open. He tr.ed ana in. more carefully and the door s.vung open. Puts Money in Bag. Orecdily he carrd out the toes of gold and bumJles of currency and deposited de-posited them In a bag. Having taken all that was in sight, he dranKtd the three of us Into tiie vault and locked tiie door. As soon as we heard the lo-k on the door sua p behind the robber we made desperate attempts, to tree our hands. Finally Oddie got his knife out of his pocket. Dobson opened it and foon we were all loose. Hurriedly Hur-riedly we turned on the lights and obtained tho hammer and screw- driver that had been left in the vault I lor Just such an emergency. We would hnve- been sat from harm, though, for several hour, as. hi anticipation an-ticipation of gettine locked in sometime, some-time, the vault bad been ventilated Mii'ucieiuly to admit air' enough to keep us ttllve probably all night. I was thoroughly familiar with the meehanism of the lock, and In a few minutes the lock was off and we were free. We notified the police immediately, and don't know much Hbout what I hf.wened after that until t he monev was returned. There is no ijutstlon ' that the man who gives his name as Heaton Is tne man who held up the bank. Corroborated Schweitzer. Then Schweitzer of Bir.pham wa in the bank Monday ufternoon when the alleged rub hi-r n.avin hii iirst appearance tnere, Aiiii tells the tame story as lold h' lian-clall lian-clall un to the occurrences at that time. speaking of the robbery last night, i both i're-ident C- H. Thompson and Di- j rector J. C Dugan of the Bingham State ba:;k said that they had Ions; feared a I holdup and had been fully protected by insurance and had made provisions for the release of the men in case they were lorKed in the vault. The officers of the bank are: C H. Thompson, president ; T. H. Quillen. vice president: Karl Randall, eafhler; C H. Thompson. T. H. Quillen, J. C. r'uean. A . P . Wilcox and YV. H . Shearman, directors. Brought to Salt Lake. i When news of the robberv readied the : sheriffs office in Salt Lake City, At ha ' Williams. David Guest and Riley Beck- j stead, deputies, set out for Bingham in : an antomohile at 4:45 p. m., making tho! run there in Ic-fs than an hour. All of the j prisoners were bein? held in the Bingham jdil. Two of ih.c women prisoners were left In Binsham, as there was not room! enough for ail of them in the three auto- I mobiles which brought the live men and ! two womn to the Salt Lake county jail. : The local deputy (sheriffs were accom 1 anied hre by S. &'. .lones, city marshal of Bingham, and Al rautsch. deputy sheriff sher-iff there. Tne party arrived at the county jail at p. m. The man giving hi; name as Bert Heaton, Hea-ton, who hiss been identified aa the one who locked the bank officials in the vault and made away with tiie money, appears to be a consummate actor. llo looked his questioners squarely in the eye. smiled continually and steadfastly protested . Ignorance Ig-norance of the whole affair. lie said that he came recently from Denver, but was unable to name any street there or call the name of a single prominent citizen. Heaton Denies Gum. He said: i 1 don't know this man they call Cunningham, and never saw him until our meeting here in the Jailor's of- , fice tonight. They said something j about a bank robbery when they ar- : rested me. but I know nothing what- ; ever about it. I was over in Bingham Bing-ham looking for a job. j Cunningham, In turn, declared that ' Heaton was a stranger to him. Asked to exolain hiy presence In Bingham for the past two days, during which time he kept his automobile standing on the street, he said that be had gone there on "private business." the nature of which concerned nu on but himself. He maintained that he had gone to Bingham in the company of two women, but that they w ere not among those arrested. Calls It Frame-up. Continuing, he said: I don't know what they are driving at, but H looks like some sort of a frame-up tu get me in bad. I have never been convicted of a crime in my life, though I admit that I have been under arrest a number of times. That package of jewelry taken from the bath-house at Saltair beach, about which such a row was made, was my own property. YV i i h r e ga rd to the stor,- about my having gotten away witli a lot of money taken in on the gale at the "stampede" a year ago last summer, I have proven to the (satisfaction (sat-isfaction uf all that I was nut the man who got it. I was secretary of the Stampede company, not treasurer. George Willis, E. J- Turner and I". li. Welsh.' who were arrested in connection with the robberv-. and brought to the county jail, maintained stoical silence, and refused to talk to officers or anyone else. C'itv Marshal P. S. Jones and Deputy Dep-uty Sheriff Al Fautsch of Bingham de-dare de-dare that they will be able to prove by dozens of witnesses that Cunningham, Heaton. Willis. Turner and Welsh were seen in each other's company a number of times during the past two da.. They also claim that the women under arrest belonged to tbo tame gang. |