Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-06 | Page 2 | Bandits Are Identified by Victims Prison Pictures Connecting Link

Bandits Are Identified d by Victims I O o t Prison Picture Pictures Connecting Link Link I I GEpRGE EORGE DYER alias Bad Bail Eye e alleged brains of I Ithe the the band of robbers arrested at Ele Eleventh East street and at right Billy Coffron alias Little nill Billy r under tinder arrest in Havre Mont l as one of the tile alleged lea leaders ers of the gang of Utah Montana bank bai burglars p Y t t ri k I 0 0 3 ir 5 k 5 54 l c Sheriff Smith of Bozeman Mont Arrives and andI I Will Make Further FurtherS Examination of Shack and Premises on South Eleventh East Street 0 ii 0 Through the medium of ot a prison picture Billy Coffron under arrest In Montana as as one of the leaders of the Utah Montana band of ot bank burglars has been positively fied-by fied Ed Wright watchman at the Utah Junk company's place of ot business busi busi- ness as the man who forced him at th the point of a a. gun to sit in theoffice the office of the company compan while a gang of robbers broke boke open the company safe about a month ago The photograph of Coffron was also positively identified as that of ot i the theman man who held up and robbed Jim Boo a Chinese celery grower I of ot 2329 Third East about a a. month ago The robber secured from Boo two gold watches watches and about 26 26 In cash At the Utah Junk company plant the burgl burglars rs broke Into an empty empty safe Coffron CoUron better known as Little Billy was arrested at Havre Mont with five other men and two women in connection with a bank robbery In Montana during last July Coffron Coffron Cof Cot fron it is reported had Just completed completed com corn a a. term in the Montana state prison a short time before the bank burglary for which he Is now being held Both Wright and a a. partner by the name of Norman Korman who were watchmen watchmen watchmen watch watch- men men at the tho Utah Junk company Continued on page 6 G. I BANDITS ARE Continued from page 1 plant Identified Coffron's picture as being that of the leader of of the gang that blew the safe se o of f the Junk com cont- pany Jim Boo victim ot ot a robbery rObber about the same time r recognized the te picture picture pic pie ture at once and two of his companions companions com corn who were victims of the holdup also identified the picture Deputy sheriffs of Sanpete county county county coun coun- ty arrived arrive last night with wit the three thee bank robber suspects arrested areste at Mantl Manti Mant including John Alen Allen Vie Vic I Swanson and T. T F. F Ferrell Ferel These men are ae being hold held hod under suspicion in connection ol with wih the recent robber robbery robbery rob rob- bery of the Moroni bank and a ber thorough investigation of ot their records records records rec rec- is 18 being made made Today Sheriff Sherif James Smith of t Bozeman Mont representatives of the Burns ag agency ncy and the sheriffs sheriff's office will make further search of the premises at South Eleventh East street where five alleged members of the gang of ot ba bank rob rob- bers were arrested last week week A A. search serch yesterday revealed worth of stolen Montana school bonds and it i is believed beleve that further loot may be found concealed about the place v The shack has been the te home of Adolph dolph itinerant t peddler and alleged member of the robber gang f for r sever several l years yeas past past it I Is said but cut has been used recently as a a rendezvous by George Gerge Dwyer al alleged alleged alleged al- al leader of the te Utah Uth branch of the gang and four or or five other members of the alleged robber ring