| Show A. A Roy Eoy Heath victim of I slayer-bandit slayer and below Archie Wilcox accomplice I of Robert H. H McCoy conI confessed confessed con con- I f murderer i 4 I 1 i I ss F I AS S i M Coy Full Blame I for Murder Of Salt Lake Mat Mart Faces Accomplice in Bountiful Bank Holdup and Pleads to Repay Archie Wilcox for Saving Life Woman Is Released T I I OWE VE my life to Wilcox and Im I'm willing to lay Jay it down donn donni i for him Robert McCoy bandit and slayer of A. A Roy A.-Roy Roy Heath declared on his cot at the emergency hospital Saturday McCo McCoys so brain brau is worth more than my ray bod body said Archie Wilcox accomplice of McCoy in the holdup and robbery at the Bountiful State bank Friday afternoon For the first time since since- they separated at it Val Yal Yerda Verda Friday afternoon the slayer and his liis ac accomplice ac ac- Com pUce met Wilcox was tal taken en ento to hl hit his pal from th the police poUce station cell by officers As Wilcox gazed at his friend he was surrounded by Chief of or Police Joseph Joseph JosephE E. E Burbidge Sheriff George Mann of or Davis Da county and Detectives C C. C W. W Patten Patten Patten Pat Pat- ten and L. L I L. L Lars Larson n. n REPEATS CONFESSION McCoy reiterated his confession in the presence o of Wilcox He Ho de declared do de cIa dared red that he desired money to perfect a a. patent which he thought would provide a a. mechanism for perpetual motion This Invention ion he said was in addition to one ones for foran foran foran an oil cup Wilcox said he had hd knowledge of or McCoys McCoy's plans on n the he patent sled asked as s to where th ey y had be become become become be- be come associated d. d McCoy and Wilcox said that it was while th they y were in a a. amine mine at Conda onda Ida Tda It was while they were engaged engaged en en- in tHat work that Wilcox 1 tot 11 said to have saved McCoys McCoy's life Ufa by drawing draving him front from heavy timbers timbers tim Um bers which which bad T ad fallen allen upon him ina ina in ina a McCoy said that he assumed all aU responsibility for tor the staging and the planning of the robb robbery r It was as o that remark that h haf he stated he was willing to lay own 11 his lis s m lf ik kU Q WJ his pat pal J. J might b ns s pattern pe A i ma t hl remark Wilcox referred to fo c-C c y as as' as a a. brainy man and made th the comparison comparison com corn parison as s set set forth above HINTS AT SUICIDE A A. moment rater later McCoy dramatically cally exclaimed Ill In never pro go to trial which the observant officers Inferred meant that he would again attempt suicide Friday night he made a a. vain attempt to take tako his hia life by slashing his throat with a 1 apiece apiece piece of Un while he was confined in a cell It was vas this injury which caused him removal remO to to the hos hos- pita pital As a result a IL strict watch is now being kept ov over McCoy Wilcox it Is b ho he suffering from frozen feet teet The arduous climb over the hills and through the Ilea heavy snow sno 1 Is said to have saturated his lower limbs and he said he was suffering from his experience as a result of or his flight from font the officers TWO COMPLAINTS I Joseph E. E Evans district attorney attorney ney bf hf th the Second Judicial district with headquarters at Ogden announced announced announced an an- Saturday that two complaints complaints com cent plaints would probably be filed flied against both McCoy and Wilcox One would charge murder in the first degree and the tho other would charge robbery robber The Tho filing Wing of or the complaints however he said would would- wait walt upon a conference which he lie hoped to hold with Ezra C. C Robinson Robin Robin- son county attorney of Davis county late Saturday In the the- Continued on page 2 2 Assumes Full BIa Blame e for f o Murder 05 YS M Continued ud from page 1 meantime both men will be held in the Salt Lake Lalee city Jail Another development In murder mur- mur der- der dero der robbery o bery case was waR furnished Saturday morning when Mrs Irs Bessie Bessie Bes Beg sie McCoy wife McCoy wife of the slayer who lf Irad been held In jail overnight was was r released leased after she had been subjected r to rigorous questioning quest by police officers WOMAN RELEASED She d declared that she was home throughout h ut Friday on account of the illness o of l her er youngest child and that she ha had been confined to the house on that account for several days As a consequence conse- conse qu quence nce she sai said she had not been able to pa pay much attention to McCoy She said that her husband had con confided tided In Ia her that lu iLi wa was a whisky runner er from Montana ron Mon ron ron- tana to Idaho She said that she heard her husband a short while ago was alleged to to be Implicated implicated im Im- Im- Im In the robbery robber at the Orpheum theatre Ogden but said that she did not believe he was involved in that affair lr The wo an n said that McCoy told her he was going to get some mone money but he di 3 not not state b by what means She said that he had recently been worl working on a patent and that she believed this had caused aused him to become mentally unbalanced Mrs oIls McCoy said that her hus band met Wilcox two ye years rs ago when both men were working at ata ata a mine at Conda Ida She he s sOld said ld that Wilcox saved her husbands husband's life by removing some heavy timbers timbers' tim- tim timI j I bers' bers from him when a To this fact she scribed inscribed McCoys McCoy's reticence nc a at t first to reveal revell I Ithe Ithe l I the Identity of his partner in ini I Fridays Friday's s hOld holdup I I i I Sha Shadow o of the thee house lay lay I athwart the lives of Robert H. H Mc Me- I Coy 31 and Archie Wilcox 30 when early Saturday morning local police assisting Davis county authorities au au- au- au had cut short their careers careers careers ca ca- ca- ca as bank bandits and killers lillers and after a strenuous grilling at police headquarters had wrung from them detailed confessions of the robbery of the tue Bountiful State bank at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and of the murder of A. A Roy Heath local realtor whom McCoy shot as asa a t prelude to flight through the snow buried hills hiI north of this ctt city Sherman F of the Salt Lake police department has credit for the of 1 McCoy Wilcox wa was taken talEn by y Lieutenant of Police D. D II H. Clayton Reed Heed Billings and V. V OBrien O'Brien of the p purity squad McCoy McCoy Mc Mc- Coy was arrested shortly after atter 4 o'clock Friday afternoon In a ra ravine ravine raVine ra- ra vine behind Petersons Peterson's ranch and about two miles south and east of Val Verda Verde Wilcox after a gruelling tramp of more than ten miles over the mountains stumbled stumble stumbled ble bled l into the ahns of police officers off om- cers on the thc C City ty peek Creek boulevard Just behind th the the- state ata capitol LOOT RECOVERED So far as ha has been determined 1 l all aU of th the loot between 1000 an and 1500 secured in- in the In-the the bank robbery rob rob- bery has been recovered rOb rOb-j I McCoy has a wife wire and two small j I children residing at First avenue aye aye- j I nue has been residing with i his parents at Fifth East street I McCoy carried business cards idea den him as manager of the Mc McCoy McCoy Mg- Mg Mgt Coy Oil company Main street and Wilcox ruco carried cards representing him as an agent of I that c company By midnight confessions had been secured from both men as to their parts in the outlawrY IMPLICATES WIFE McCoy altered his hs story several times but In the final version he implicated his wife as an accomplice accomplice in planning and arranging de details details de- de I de-I I i tails of the holdup He charged that j she had gathered together the guns i I and ammunition used on the Job and secreted them at their l Home ome until until the bandit pair set out On this information Mrs McCoy 24 24 was taken into custody and was wasI held for Investigation She was re released released released re- re I leased Saturday morning Police are searching today for two men mentioned by McCoy in his first statements and who it Is believed made up with McCoy and Wilcox the quartet whom W. W V. V W W. Wilson president of t th the Sandy City bank suspected of inte intentions to at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt the robbery of t that t institution one hour before the Bountiful Job These men are believed to b bf an unnamed Mexican and a former Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den crook crool known as Johnson McCoy is said to have a police record rec record rec- rec ord in Ogden and local authorities rec-j rec believe that He lie named these in his earlier statements for for the double I purpose of shielding Wilcox and getting even with the other two for deserting the enterprise after It had ad been launched I ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Interrogation of the bandits was I conducted at various times by Police Police Police Po Po- Po- Po lice Chief Joseph E. E Detectives De De- De- De I C. C IS W. W Patten L. L L. L Larsen C. C W. W rantz and W. W M. M Madsea Madsen Madsen Mad- Mad sen sea Patrolman John Allen n. n and andI I Sheriff George Mann Iann of 1 Davis avis I county In his final statement o of ot C the crime I McCoy gave the name of Johnson as that of his accomplice but a moment later he changed that gh j j Ing Wilcox's name address and a minute description Wilcox was already in Jail About ten minutes later other officers of officers officers of- of visited McCoys McCoy's s cell and found him leaning over a washbowl slashing at his neck with ith a a piece of tin When Falkenrath arrested McCoy McCo he Is said to have pleaded to be killed outright and the Jail attempt at suicide was in line with i his desire to die rather than to tc face trial The officers overpowered McCoy McCoy Mc Mc- Mc-I Mc Coy and summoned Dr J. J J. J Galli- Galli gan who wo repaired the cut McCoy was kept in the emergency hospital ital under heavy guard and Saturday morning he was reported out of danger danger danger dan dan- ger from the attempted blood let let- I ting CONFESSION McCoys McCoy's confession follows You boys s appear to be pretty good fellows and now Ill I'll tell you the str straight of Jt it The man who was with me was wac named Johnson We Ve planned this Job together and andl l left rt the gUns up at my house last lass night This morning we went up UI up there and got ot them ithem th m man an and drove around a while going to to Sandy and I coming back to town Then we went vent to to Bountiful and arid stuck up the i I bank I After leaving the bank I had I Isome some difficulty in getting the car carI I I start started d but finally final did and drove I Ito to Val Vai Verda There the machine I ran off ore the the road We e tried to get j jit it started back but lt failed a and d decided de- de I elded to go rio t o a neighboring farmhouse farm farni I house and see if we could obtain a team or l chains The rhe other I Iman Iman man we t to one place and I 3 to another Then I met a young man I and while I was talking to him I I saw three e automobiles coming I told the kid to go Into a house that was nearby As the C cars s came up I fired the shots thinking they were officers Then I went vent with the young man over oer to where my pal was supposed to be WILCOX BREAKS DOWN Shortly afterwards afterward Wilcox Wilcox was as taken into another room for Tor grill grIll- ing Chief Burbidge advised adl him that McCoy had confessed implicating him and had then attempted sui sui- sui t. t The rhe prisoner was silent and Chief Burbidge proceeded proceed d t to point I Ithe out the serious predicament in which McCoys McCoy's statement placed Vii Wilcox coX Well Weir he is a fine fe fello 11 01 v isn't he Wilcox asked Trying to tomake tomake tomalee make malee me the goat Is he Chief Burbidge then plied him himI I with questions as to to his mo movements move e- e ments which Wilcox parried until Leland Sessions assistant cashier of j r rI the Bountiful State bank whom the I bandits loc locked ed in th the bank vault and others who had seen the pair pall during the afternoon arrived and I identified as one of the banI ban- ban I Then Thea Wilcox made a voluntary volun- volun I tary statement admitting his part I I I In Ia the bank robbery and detailing I events from that moment up until his capture I BROTHER AUTO VICTIM He identified himself as a brother I of Ray Wilcox 14 killed in a traffic traffic fic accident several weeks ago when an aut mobile belonging to Homer f foreman of The Telegrams Telegram's composing room collided with the boy r on Fifth East street Ills His family fam fam- I ily By only onh recently came here from Paris Idaho He begged ed th that t his I I spared as much as possible pos- pos i sible sibe I II I PLANNED THURSDAY j I Th The robbery robber according to Wilcox I was in contemplation several se days I Early in ip the week the bandits I drove to Bountiful to look over th ground The Job jot was definitely de decided de- de e. e c on Thursday and they made I preparations that altern afternoon on for the Friday raid I At 1 o'clock Friday afternoon President Wilson Vilson of the Sandy City I bank panIc which Institution was raided and robbed several months ago be became became became be- be came suspicious of four men who stepped dut out of a Hudson sedan and Behind d the bank ank H He believed from their actions that they contemplated ed a It holdup an and he called the sher thee sheriffs sheriff's i iff's iffs office Deputies were dispatched dispatched dispatched dis dis- patched but the car and Its occupants occupants occupants pants had sone gone before they arrived One hour later as Cashier Cashiel Sessions Sessions Ses Ses- ions s was transacting business with John A. A Brown of ville two i men entered the Bountiful State bank They went to the c counter and appeared to be making maling out deposit slip slips A moment lat later r rth t th they hey 3 went into action I 1 SURPRISE ORDER Ea Each h drew a revolver and ordered or ordered ordered or- or dered Brown and Sessions to hold holdup holdup holdup up their hands One One held these two while white the other ordered the two office girls Marie Pack and Loretta Loret- Loret ta Stevens into a back room loom With ith the two girls temporarily disposed of the bandit went around the cage e and began collecting the money He took the currency and silver and was going to take a bundle bundie bundle bun bun- dle die of checks when Sessions Interrupted interrupted Inter inter- interI I him i Dont take the checks they wont won't do I you any ay good Sessions said Shut up Well aVell do as we damn please the bandit said threaten threaten- He appeared to think threaten threaten-I better of It however and left the checks behind Can you live in the vault thirty minutes Sessions was waS' asked asked by byone one of the holdups No we Well VeIl well we'll put you In anyway FORCED INTO VAULT T. T The two men were accordingly accordingly forced into the vault and the door was locked The bandits then ran to their machine which was parl parked ell in front of the bank and and drove south along th state highway The two 1 girls In the rear room ran out and gave the alarm at this p point William Stephan gen general ral 1 bool bookkeeper who had been at a dru drug store returned and unlocked the vault ault liberating liberating- the two prisoners Wilbur Wright and Clarence two Bountiful men Immediately Immediately immedIately Im im- Im- Im mediately armed themselves with guns and went In pursuit of the the bandits Where the Val Yal Verda Yerda road runs lUn 1 I east from the main highway ia streetcar had stopped as th the t tufo bandits drove up This it Sa believed be- be frightened them and they turned into the Val Verda road The They were ere seen to swerve here bj by I Wright and Mayfield WARNED Wright right and |
