Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-20 | Page 5 | Six Held for Mail Robbery, New Year's, '21

SIX HELD fOR MAil R ROBBERY NEW 21 AIl Alleged ged Accomplices of Rev Herbert Wilson Serving Life at San Quentin Apprehended CHICAGO Jan 19 Government secret service operatives today arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested Kenneth I D. D Anderson of Evanston jn Ill on a charge of complicity cons com om Jn In the mail mall robber robbery in Los Angeles on New ew Years Year's day 1921 r for for r which Rev Herbert Wilson is serving a a. life term In San Quentin prison n Cat Cal after being convicted of r murder urdel and postal robbery y 4 Anderson was nas arraigned before United States Commissioner James JamesR R Glass Glas Gla and placed und under r bond lie Ie will have a hearing Tuesday Tuesday u with five other men who haie been arrested here in connection connection tion with the same ame robbery and who havo have been secretly These are John Grahame Wal- Wal Valter t ter ter r n Jr r Lehner Haldane Haitians Clemensen Michael J. J Rowell and William Serpas Serpas Ser Ser- pas all of whom hom have navo been released d don on 10 pOO 9 00 bonds pending the hearing hear hear- ing FEDERAL COURT CASE Indictments against the six men were returned ir In California but they will be tried in the local federal federal federal fed fed- eral court on a removal warrant One Ono of the defendants Dr Haldane Haldane Haldane Hal- Hal dane Clemen Clemensen en a convicted wife murderer whose trial was a sensa sensational one several years jears ea s 's ago ago in Chicago served a term in Jollet Joliet Ill penitentiary The robbery for which the men were secretly arrested during the week occurred on March 14 1921 and was an extraordinarily bold boldone boldone boldone one A gang of f bandits bandits' stopped a snail mall truck at Alameda and First streets in the California city shot and killed one of two drivers and fled with a cargo cargo- of ot mail mall of ot an estimated value of ot GRAFT RING RING AL ALLEGED EGED DES MOINES la Ia Jan Tan 19 Half Half Halfa a a. million d dollars was stolen from the city of J pcs Des cs 1 by a a graft ring which involved several prominent prominent prominent nent people some whom still are Inthe in inthe inthe the city's employ Ed Thayer counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel for tel Russell Russen Cockburn alleged city hall payroll asset asserted ed In his big opening statement today TV when hen Cockburn went on trial here Thayer said he would put before the court evidence e to show who the brains of ot this big steal were Al Allen Allen Allen Al- Al len Munn for the state auditor auditor auditor au au- au- au was one ono of the first witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses testifying regarding alleged Irregularities he and coworkers uncovered uncovered uncovered un un- covered In city hall books Cockburn faces a a. charge of ot embezzlement em- em He Is a former parks I department clerk clerk- and was extradited extradited extra extra- recently from Missouri It I has been charged he defrauded the city of approximately 80 ALLEGED BANK WRECKER LOS ANGELES Cal Cat Jan Tan 19 By ByU U U. P.-Forrest P. P Forrest Nelson vice president press press- I dent of off the tho Whittier Boulevard I State bank here was arrested today today to- to to-I to day on telegraphic warrant from Great Falls Tails Mont charged with wrecking the American Bank and Trust company of that city a year jear ear ago The arrest followed a recent In Indictment indictment in- in voted by the grand Jury fury meeting at Great Falls the ad advice stated Nelson was president of the I defunct bank