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Show JAMES M. HELM, JR., one of the three youths arrested yesterday yes-terday at Ogden in connection with the murder of a San Francisco rent car chauffeur. YOUTH ADMITS COAST MURDER Weber County Sheriff Says Alleged Fugitive Confesses Con-fesses to Crime. Trio Arrested in Ogden Wanted for Killing of San Francisco Man. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Nov. 7. Following the capture cap-ture here today of Carl Cole, 19 years of ags; his twin brother, Fred Cole, and James Kendall, alias James M. Helm, Jr.. 20 years of age, wanted in San Francisco Fran-cisco for the murder of Michael J. Need-ham, Need-ham, public rent car chauffeur, Carl Cole is reported by Sheriff H. C. Peterson to have made a confession of the crime. According Ac-cording to Sheriff Peterson, Cole said that his brother struck Needham over the head with a hammer and that the two Cole boys arid Fred Kendall, now identi- Oft g7? IdI I he was bound and gagged and left, and they immediately started for the east. Car Is Traded. Carl Cole said that they continued on the trip through Nevada, and at Wen-dover Wen-dover they traded the Marmon car, carrying car-rying license number 97676 and taken from Needham. to J. Conley, proprietor of the Wendover hotel, for a Paige car and $250. The money was given $100 cash and a check for $150 drawn upon the National Copper bank at Salt Lake by Conley. After leaving Wendover the boys drove to Kelton, New, where the Paige broke down, and they sold it to E. H. Jones for $125. claiming that the cost of fixing it would be too much. The boys then came into Ogden on the train. At the time the automobile was sold to Jones, J. Frank Gimlin is reported1 to have seen the deal and the paying of the check. Gimlin is conductor on the Southern Pacific train that brought the trio to Ogden. Today the boys met Gimlin Gim-lin on the street and asked him to go to a bank to identify them. Gimlin went with them to the Pingree National bank and they cashed the check. The information was then telephoned to the sheriff's office that the suspects were there. A response was made by Sheriff EL C Peterson with Deputies T. H. Blackburn, Curtis Allison, George Allen, Bert Crites and Joe Chadwlck. Arrested in Theater. "When the officers arrived at the bank, they found the trio had gone to a vaudeville vaude-ville show. As Kendall was wearing the uniform of an overseas soldier, the description de-scription of the trio was made easy, and the officers had no trouble In locating them. As soon as the boys were taken Into the theater lobby, the officers placed them under arrest and they were taken to the county Jail. While being searched by Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Blackburn. Helm was asked for his automatic pistol and he said he did not have one. A search by the officer resulted re-sulted in finding of the revolver. When asked his name, the suspect sajd It was KendalL A minute later the officer found a card of the armv bearing the name of James M- Helm, Jr. During the searching of Helm and Fred Cole, the latter did not remove his eyes from Helm. Both boya took a cigaret and while lighting his smoke Heim'a hands were trembling ao that it was too difficult for him to secure a light. Cole, noticing the trembling hands, struck a match and lighted his partner's smoke. As the officers proceeded with the Bearch they found 32-callber automatic auto-matic revolvers upon Carl Cole and Helm, while Fred Cole carried a 38-calIbcr Colt's revolver. fled as James M. Helm, Jr., through army discharge papers . found In his pocket, bound and gagged Needham and left him unconscious. The arrest of the three youths was made In a theater here this afternoon by Sheriff Peterson and deputies from the Weber county sheriffs offices following the receipt of descriptions of the suspected sus-pected murderers sent by the police department de-partment of San Francisco. The advices from the Bay city stated that the trio are wanted for their suspected connection connec-tion with the murder of the chauffeur at Baden, near San Francisco, October 31. Check Leads to Arrest. The clew which led to the arrest of the youths was furnished by a local bank at which the fugitives cashed a check given them at Wendover, where they are said i by the sheriff to have sold Needham's automobile. The banks of Utah had been warned to watch for a check drawn on the National Copper bank of Salt Lake. Needham, who had been strangled, chloroformed, cut and beaten to death . when he fought with robbers who stole his new automobile, was discovered by means of a partially unwound ball of string lying in the road near Baden, San Mateo county, California. Speze Benota, a vegetable peddler, noticing the string, got down from the seat of his wagon and winding up the cord was led to a clump of willows, in which he found the body of Needham. Needham's assailants, with his car, had fled. The car was found at Wendover, L'tah, yesterday. The Utah Stat Automobile Automo-bile association and the sheriffs office of Salt Lake county played a part in tracing the fugitives. The theft of the car In which the accused made their escape was reported to P. L. Bingham, In charge of the insurance department of the Utah State Automobile association, and he In turn notified every city and town in . Utah to be on the lookout for the stolen car, a Harmon. Watch for Check. Sheriff John S. Corless's office In Salt Lake was advised that the men answering answer-ing to the description of the alleged murderers mur-derers were on their way to Salt Lake with a check payable at the National Copper bank. Sheriff Corless then notified no-tified the Ogden sheriff to watch the banks in the Junction city. Previous to the arrest in Ogden. the only clews which the San Francisco police po-lice had obtained were a button from a soldier's uniform with a fragment of khaki cloth attached, a bottle which had contained chloroform, and the broken handle of a small tack hammer. Eleven dollars in cash were gone from Need- nam s pocisets. a gold watch was found untouched on the body. Carl Cole gave a brief description of the murder, according to Sheriff Peter-Hon. Peter-Hon. Cole said they had planned on leaving leav-ing San Francisco for Uintah basin, Utah, where they were to hunt and trap . game all winter. He said Needham had been agreed upon as the man whose car was to be taken. He declared to the sheriff that when he heard his brother, Fred, and Kendall talk about using the hammer, he protested and suggested that they use chloroform. The others Insisted Insist-ed upon a light blow from the hammer to stun the driver. They secured the car In the evening and had Needham drive them out of the city for about fifteen fif-teen or twenty miles, when Fred Cole utruck Needham on the back of the head with the hammer, accordfng to Sheriff Peterson. The car was then stopped. Cole told the sheriff, and Needham taken from the cr to the side of the road, where Check Found. Carl Cole 'had the check for llGf) and about $5 in change: Fred Cole rjad about $50 In currency, and Helm had about $70 In currency. That Fred Cole will make a complete confession, as wilL-hls brother and HHm, la the opinion of the officers. According to Sheriff Peterson, Fred Cole told him he would have some tiling to ted him later. He wanted to have a little time to think. The sheriff said Carl Coie and Helm admitted their gulf: and the attack upon Needham. Chief of Police D. A. White, at San Francisco, was notified early this evening eve-ning of the capture or the trio. It Is expected ex-pected officers will arrive from the coast during the next few days and take the trio back to that city, where they will face the murder charge. Carl Cole and Fred Cole are of the same height, five feet eight Inehes, and they both weigh 137 pounds, have black hair and dark blue eyes. Kendall Is IW feet nine Inches in height and weighs 149 pounds. He has sandy hair and brown eyes. |