Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 1 | Bandits' Bodies Now in Pittsburg

BANDITS BANDITS' BODIES NOW IN PIllS PITTSBURG BURG Gr Crowd Crowd-at d at Depot r rin in ill Scramble to View 5 the Coffins 1 PITTSBURG Pa Feb 3 The The re remains remains re- re mains of Edward and John Biddle Diddle the dead bandits arrived at the Pittsburg j Western railroad station at 11 o'clock this morning A thousand or more persons persons persons per per- 1 sons had gathered at the station When When the train drew In there wasa was a rough scramble to get to the platform of the r depot during which several were I 4 bruised by being crushed against the stairway y The morgue wagon was waiting waiting- and the bodies were quickly driven to the morgue for identification An immens Immense immen crowd d soon gathered but a large detail of police prevented them from entering the building The remains of the murderers murderers mur mur- deters were turned over to their brother broth broth- er Harry Biddle Diddle who will wUl give the the proper interment in the South Side cem- cem The funeral will wUl be conducted as privately as possible and Rev Father Sweeney the priest who tendered spIritual spiritual spiritual spirit spIrit- ual advice to the Biddies while they i were in the Pittsburg Jail will wUl conduct the services I Dispatches from the Butler hospital this morning report Mrs condition condition condition condi condi- tion as unchanged While it Is believed she will get set well the danger Is not v passed and on account of this uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty In her condition nothing Is being done In the wa way of preparations for hez her removal to Pittsburg If It she lives in Jn addition to answering to the charge ot of aiding prisoners to escape she will be be confronted by charges of furnishing th the Biddies Diddles with firearms and aiding the felonious assault upon the jail guards and the officers who effected the capture capture cap cap- ture In Butler Mrs has written to a prominent Pittsburg attorney to engage his ser ser- vices Her father Is said to be quite well to and as her parents are arere re relenting relenting re- re lenting she hopes to receive aid from them The prison board Is satisfied Mrs Mrs had assistance within the prison and before the Diddle Biddle incident is finally closed it is probable there will be an p. p almost entirely new force of attaches at j the jail The county authorities donot do not not- believe that Ed Biddles Biddle's dying dyIng- stat ment meat implicating Jennie ij jt j Kahney murder and it is not any pi action will be taken by them L