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Show IS SSID TO HAVE IDEJOfESSl Fellow Prisoner .Declares Harry Wood Told Him About Holdup. " ' Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. 16. Information that Harry Wood, convicted by a jury on a charge of assault with intent to commit com-mit murder, confessed his part in the attempted street car robbery of October Octo-ber 30, 1916, to Charles Chambers, another an-other prisoner in the county jail, became be-came public today. Wood was taken to the state prison yesterday to enter upon an indeterminate term for his crime. Wood 's alleged statement to Chambers follows: I was bleeding like a stuck pig from a wound m my side, so the first thing I thought about after starting t.o run was to stop the blood. I jumped over a fence into a field not far from the end of the car line and kept going until I came to a barn where some farm wagons and tools were stored. Among the wagons I found an old pair or overalls. I stuffed my shirt into the hole in my side to stop the bleeding, put on the overalls and rode a street car down to Twenty-fifth street. As soon as I got down town I started to mooch along Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street. After I told a hard-luck hard-luck story to one guy he gave me all the change he had 60 cents. Another fellow gave me 40 cents and I bought a ticket to Salt Lake as soon as I could get to the depot. de-pot. Then I made the rounds of the employment agencies and Dixon agency snipped me out about fifteen fif-teen miles to Bingham to work. I had worked five or six days when the wound in my side began to make me sick and I told the foreman I would have to quit. He thought I was bluffing, so I had to show him the wound. He said I was sick all right and I went back to Salt Lake. When I went to the police hospital for treatment treat-ment they nabbed me on this Og-den Og-den deal. Sheriff H. C. Peterson says he has every reason to believe that Wood made the statement to Chambers and that he could easily assure himself of such by investigation of the employment agency records and at Bingham. He does not believe that such investigation is necessary, neces-sary, however, in view of the fact that Wood has been convicted and taken to the state prison. |