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Show UTftHN HELD FOR BANK Jefferson Howell Is in Custody Cus-tody in California Hospital. Letter to Wife in Salt Lakfi Reveals Indentity; Many Thefts Alleged. ' J-AVrnon 7owf:;i, for wliom tLa Salt 1 l..,k! have nought f"r l:en rr.Miih.-'. wautfe! an a La.uk roli!i-r, and ! all. to hav !;: n artU'.j In I he Htt:.i.l- lra; of ,M l.ull.on from mlncrd thnr.-h-oi;t tiift nor: li wrHi.m r'..u, Is in cuh-to-!y in a honpttal at Yr..-k.i, l.'aL Ho is n .-i'-'iiiK tn-atm'Mit for a Kimuhnt womul tn hlrf U-k, r..c.:iv,.. In a chaHw from a puiwo H.-eklii him for a $L",0n0 Lanlt io.-ht;ry, io.-ht;ry, a'TonlLiK to Information i-ij"olv.l hy (.hlif of I'oll-.u J. IJarl.y Will to. Ht.n Iff'; 1m mo La'lly i-ruliDfl that amputation may N? r.c.-..-i".-(.uT, It U nal'l. Should ho rt-i.r.vnr, h may Hpr-nrl tho r'.-st at hi da In prison, a'"i'OfJii;c; to Chief of t'u-iicft t'u-iicft While. 'A h.-n a:-rt-Htfti1 la California Howell was fl.wn- from a t'h-rlf f '.i py" uft-.-r ho la I ttli-n:d to have h-M'l up a bank in Weaver-vllhi. Weaver-vllhi. a town near Yrelcu, Novcmlier U, and fiiiiKll-haniloci rohhi;d tho eatablish-rn;nt eatablish-rn;nt of ?lu,0;i). Whim taken into custody, cus-tody, the first tlmo that ho in known by the authorities to have ever benn In do-t;ntlfn, do-t;ntlfn, ho fjavu tho muno or V. U. Pavlu. Traced Through Letter. Mih. Howull, until .jeinbur SO, was a refluent, of Salt Lake. A letter to her, written from Mnutnyuo, C'.al., a tnwn near Yr..ka, w.ih obtaintd by Chi:f While. The lutuw k;ik1 thai. llowell'M condition could bo 1-attR'd from aucountM in the California (!a;irrb. It wili Irarmid that Havbs, a bunk jobber, was h.M In eu.stody. A Lid.-fc-ram v.ih Btdit to Slitirlfr" A. S. Carlson of Vr.ika, atiklni; him to accuse taviH of belli Iiowoll.' A tfilornm received yesterday yes-terday morning by Chb'f White from ShiMii'f Carlson mad: "Iavia makes lull coiil'cy.-don to Billow." , I lowed f irnt came under the notice of the Salt I-ake police department when Wt.-sb-y DfcWIU was arrested and was al-1 al-1 lt'cd to havo confessed to tho authorities authori-ties that he and Howell were renponyl-; renponyl-; Mo for the theft of three bars of gold 1 from H. l;oswcll and his son at Grant'a Paws, tire., in May. 191$. Following DoWltt's arrest you no: Pos-i Pos-i n i II and a deputy sheriff came to Salt Ivtk i w here they stayed for some time, wachtiikf tho 1 1 o well home on I street In the hope that Howell would ft.-turn so they could t-fffct his capture. Instead of golni; to Ills home, Howell, it was lator lea rued, stayed at a downtown rooming house, where he was visited by his wife. ' When a $JOoO draft from Howi-il, who had j,' one to New Orleans, was Intercepted by Chief White on Its way to Sirs. Howell, and a letter obtained In which 3 lowed la alleged to have said he sold only one of the bars, as he was a f raid i to excite suspicion, efforis were made to ha e Howell return all the gold stolon. Asks Time for Payment. ! , When How. 'II, it is paid, answered ! through his wife that ho would like three years' time to pay back tho stolen sold, Hon well refused to consider any further delay nnd on leaving- for Franco with the army he placed tho matter in Chief While's hands for prosecution. With PeWiti, Howell's career of crime la said to have commenced twenty-five years ago at Marysvalc. I tali, when tho :air are alleged to hav robbed a saloon. Howell Ks now about 52 years of age. He has a wife and two hoys, one 18 years of a To. by a former wife. During- the last dnht or nine years his family lived In Salt Luko. Howell and DeWltt both posed us mining men. Tt is by using this subterfuge, it is sr. id, they obtained access to the Bos-well Bos-well mine in Oregon, posing as prospective pros-pective purchasers of the mine. Howell is said by Chief White to have beta in Alaska last year. Chief White sent tele-rams to all the cities along the coast warning of Howell's possible appearance ap-pearance there. Howel! is alleged to be re-ipponsiblo re-ipponsiblo for the robbery of a hank in U'.ittn, Mont., of Jlo.Ot'O; of the robbery of t he Notobrlek Mining company at Hotye, Idaho, and tho "Waldo Mining com-;i:y com-;i:y at Waldo, Ore. Posing as a mining engineer, Howell Kent numerous shipments of gold to has wife to sell. Approximately SoijOO worth of cold bullion, representing si sales f-om December It, 11 1. to September 2t. I? 17. v as sold by Mrs. Ho well in Salt Kike, it is alleged. Chief White said It was his belief that Mr.1:. Howell was not aware of her husband's hus-band's operations until she received the letter from New Orleans with a SaOO dtai't, in which. Howell said he was afraid to sell all three of the bars of gold then in his possession. |