Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-15 | Page 1 | Broker, Well Known in S. L. , and $6,000,000 Missing

1 A 4 BROKER WELL KNOWN A IN S. S L L. AND L SING MISSING Youth Kills Himself After Being Quizzed On Monroe Robbery wF Puts Bullet Through Head After Denying He Staged Holdup LOOT NOT FOUND 2 Women positively Identify Iden Identify den Iden fy Body MONROE Oct t 15 Special A Special A A year old d youth wh who hd up and rab robbed d the Monroe State bank Tuesday Tuesday afternoon shot and kill killed dl himself today r rather than face the thel music music The youth was Merlin Hendrick Hendrickson son on formerly or of who ho had bad been ivin beeri-ivin cen living with witt his father In ma a a. boxcar boxcar box- box car ar on en the D D. ic R. R G. G W. W tracks tracks' at Elsinore about the lYe mU miles mIk s from froni here Hendrickson's 1 suicide clos closed d his career of or crime Inspired by live Ive thriller ma magazine stories he head had ad been becIl reading rending f WC weeks according to Investigating Investigating- officers A magazine magazine- cont containing a story o oa of ofa a bank robbery closely paralleling the tho 10 one he lie successfully staged I Tuesday was found In his hIB bun bunk In Inie Inthe th the ie boxcar opened to a page lase where the he robber robber cl closed his own car career er erot ot of crime crime- as dramatically and as tragically as did Hendrickson him him- self elf FIRST SUSPECTED Hendrickson first was suspected I of f the robbery when residents o of Elsinore reported to Deputy Short Shor- Shor Itt t A. A O. O and nd City Marshal Marsha Roy oy Lloyd early this m thai he e answered the description of ot the robber The officers left teft for Elsinore this morning and entered the boxcar to question the youth He denied hav- hav trig ng been in Monroe Tuesday ac according ac- ac cording to u the o r but said be he heas was as willing to go with them if Monroe bank officials believed they coUld identify him He Ite walked inton into an n adjoining room of ot tho the car sup sup- p sedly edly to get gel a a. hat A Ashot shot rang rang out and Hopkins and Continued oh on page 8 S. Jn Youth y ou h Kills Kils Himself After Aft Being Be g QUI Quizzed zed on D Monroe Monre Robbery Continued from page 1 Lloyd rushed Into tho room to find H lying on the tho floor t tIe e revolver ho he used in tho the robbery robber cl In bi his his' right hand band and md a bullet hole in his temple A doctor was summoned but ho bo died an hour la later Inter FATHER QUESTIONED QU The Tho officers questioned HendrIck sons son's th the robb robbery ry but unable to learn anything about the tho case Tho The father Is employed em em- on a railroad rl section gang gangat at Elsinore A search of or the car failed to uncover uncover- tho tIm loot of oC nearly ho is alleged ed to have have- obtained In tn tho the holdup Tuesday J Tho rho body was t iu positively Went MenU ted fled as that of or th the bank robber Jh afternoon afternoon- by by Mr 15 V Vera r Sin Smith It h bookkeeper and Mrs Ella Bowman a n customer JW who o were iere alone inthe Itt the bank wb when n i he ne entered He I locked eked tho the two VO women In In tho the vault while ho he made his getaway Officers era had had- not yet found tl the money late Into this afternoon hut but we were working on the theory hendrickson cached the lo loot t near hear the tho car after atter ho he returned from Monroe Tho The youth officers said came camo t to about ten en dO days s 's ago fro from tho the Carbon county cod cOllI fields with wit his father The father and mother are arc nrc said to be divorced