Show WHO Io REALLY eMPLOYED iove OUTS DE DETECTiVE IN I NIi RO 6 RY CASE CASi 9 i When rhen interviewed with wit i regard to the char charge c of attempted blackmail made against him hini by hy a morning newspaper J. J V. W. Cou Couglin lin mann manager cl of the SnIt Salt Lako Lake Secret S Service Dg agency ncr ma made c an nn emphatic denial of the char charge e. e His statement is as follows s Shortly after the news new of the tho robbery rob rob- bery of the illI Utah National l kID hank bank I be be- camo caino public Harry T L J Robinson nn an at at- atI attorney torney sen sent t h his 1 stenographer to JU my my and requested mo rue to call enil on him I did sc so and was employed by bv Robinson as M I supposed d to i solve soho the mystery of oI the tho bank robber robbery I was told a n. number number num num- ber her of oC circumstances connected with the bank and its employees which Robinson Rob Hob I inson jason thought Sh should be investigated i Robinson led Jed mo mc to believe that he lie was the attorney nf of W W. S. S i president of th the Utah National bank and that I was in reality working for Cor i Mr Ir T I was instructed by Robinson to ill eti investigate the connection of Burl Armstrong with Attorney Booth and Cashier Strong as A Armstrong rm was believed to be he getting information as asto asto asto to the action tal taken n in the ease case which should not linn hare been eru available u for out out- siders I 1 was va also to investigate ate and aud shadow Mr Mi- Nelson Mr Ir Stron Strong and Doc Doe Londoner the head bead of the Pin Pin- horton kerton detectives employed on the case I r was to trace ay ap anonymous letter sent to the tho bank bauk and opened by hy W. W F. F Adams which read ic-ad as ns follows fonow Have got lot ticket for S. S P. P Will wm take boat Signed 1 T. T Letter From Prom Ogden This letter Jetter was sent from O Ogden den and Robinson told me mc that he lie suspected sus sus- that it was sent by hy the tho Pinkertons Pinkertons Pinker Pinker- tons as IS a blind nud anil that this suspicion suspicion cion was alt albO o entertained by Mr lr Me- Me c- c Cornick and Mr r. Adams I was also asked to investigate a woman who wa was described to mo mc and who was suppo supposed ed to be lie closely associated ap with one oue of the officials of the tho bank n and tl who was accustomed to visit tho the bank bauk frequent frequent- ly h I started to make the tho investigations investigations requested of mo me by y Hobin Robinson on and made reports to him We Ve could not a agree r e. e however el on the way of hun handling Jing the tho case casc Tho rho anonymous letter let Jet ter tor was never neer shown to me an and I could not secure it from Ro Robinson imon I found that tho the woman in question had no connection connection con can with the bank official Ho He Left Loft Case U As As I could not han handle le the case in iI mv lily my own wa way I severe severed my 01 connection with ith the case ease and aud sent in my bill hiU Pa Payment Pay Pay- ment meat was refused 1 by hy Robinson nn and Ithen I Ithen Ithen then wrote oto him bim tho the letter lotier as printed in inthe inthe inthe the morning paper I h had every ery reason renson to believe that I was working for M My McCornick Mc- Mc McCornick Ic Cornick so I took our correspondence together with the bill hiJI to Mr nick who denied that he hc had bad anything to do with Robinson and said that Robinson was not his attorney I 1 told Mr Ir McComick McCornick that J felt that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was released front frontany any pledge of secrecy on the matter anI and int intended to give it to lh thc 1 lie Ho told toM mo run I had bettor better see eto Mr 11 t Adams Il first Lirt I had no knowledge l of I II I Mr Adams in in connection with the ease case we I and have hn ne never ner r met him 1 I wa was not Dot I und r tJi tho impression sion that I was wasI I working for Adams i I Mr Mi- 11 Coughlin said aid that he had been i I employed b by tho the Pinkerton agency J I three and md a half years nail and nd worked a n year and eleven months on one ono of their bi biggest st cases in iii Butte He Ho also aleo f says flays I that he lie was w employed under J J. A. A Wilher Wai- Wai i J k her r r of the United States secret ser ser- serj j i vice four cais veal'S Ho Ito exhibited from front the chief of at of Spokane I I and the tho prosecuting attorney of Coeur 1 Alone dAlone 1 AI nc City Ida Ila as is proof of or his his' standing and aini reputation on and referred to a number of other prominent officials in iu Spokane S 'S Denial Harry Robinson is reported at his office as out of the thc city and was waa not found for fol a statement f President McCornick of tho the Utah XaI National Na Xa- I Honal hank bank said aid bat that he had hall not seen I or heard anything of Robinson since the tho I last session of the J legislature and that ho knew nothing of Coughlin in ha having I t been u employed by hy anyone until cou Cough Cough- lin ha presented hi his bill and the cone conc I h-I with Robinson W. W x F. Adams denies absolutely any connection with the tho matter He lie said aid The story printed in tho the Inter Moun tam tain tRin Republican is absolute absolutely false c. c I 1 have have- never employed I any detective c in connection with the bank hank robbery Robinson Rob Bob inson is ia not my 1113 attorney i j J. J X N. Londoner assistant of the Pinkerton forces when interviewed and told the tho details of I Coughlin's Coughlin Js story ston simply laughed and observed that the tho story stone was as too trivial to merit attention He nc did say sa ho bow bow- over aver that Con Coughlin hlin had been discharged from the tho Pinkerton forces a number of years a ago o nn and that since that time had bad given tho agency much petty anno annoy annoy- an ante ance e. e |