Show i OFFICERS fRS SEEK ACCOMPLICE f Of WOUNDED THUG JHU Search Covers 4 States Holdup Man Lying Near Death RECORD UNCOVERED Three Salt Lake Robberies Robber Robber- ies Cleared Up While Frank Watson alias Stan Icy ley Hudson 35 hovered between life and death Thursday in the emergency hospital police started a manhunt in four western states for fora a gunman n and believed to have been an accomplice in the attempted attempt attempt- ed holdup Wednesday morning of the Capital Loan office 42 East Se Sec end ond South street Watson and Detective De- De Walter W. W Griffin were seriously seriously seri seri- wounded in a gun oun battle fol I lowing the robbery attempt Three Salt Lake robberies were definitely cleared up with identification cation o of Watson Vatson Thursday DJ Dc E E. S. S Pomeroy positively identified him as the man who came Into his in Feb Feb- offices the Judge building 3 of and aud an ring and nd took the doctors trousers to prevent Felix Orlando the othe Venice cafe West Second South street saId Watson Vatson was the bandit who held up the cafe three months agO and who reappeared last FrIday in a a. robbery attempt Orlando said that Watson struck him on the face and fled When he feared eared he was Detective Jack Jacl Brown unearthed clues to Watsons Watson's rooms but the suspect eluded arrest RECORD UNCOVERED A long criminal record was uncovered uncovered un- un covered against Watson with check of records in the state and national identification bureaus Chief of Police Po- Po lice Robert F. F Reed o of Denver wIred that Watson served a prison sentence sentence sen- sen tence In Walla Valla Walls Valla Wash Vash in 1914 and shortly after s f ur years ears for robbery in the Wyoming state prison lie Ile was arrested in Denver during a series ot of holdups the message said but he was released re re- leased for or lack of evidence Watson operated under a long string o of aliases lIe was kno In Denver as Bert Watson Vatson and Is i isaid said to have a a. wIfe VUe living there In Salt Lake he lived at South First West street under t the e rl nie of Stanley Hudson A woman who Continued on page 4 4 OFFICERS SEEK ACCOMPLICE OF THUG f t i ContInued from page e I 1 f f r IcI she was as Mrs Hudson It man In the emergency hosP hog hos- P pta al Wednesday afternoon She sal said he A Is f. f ft a by bv that Ithe ho Shad had lived JI with Viti him In Provo Provo for foT several se years ears before coming to Salt Lake a len lew months ago She Shepard yard pard he has a sister living Jiving In Berke- Berke Ie Cat Cal f Watson Vatson will wUl be by other robbery robber vIctims In an attempt to clear up some of the sixteen holdups hold hold- ups reported since Jan January uary I 1 De- De i e Chief D. D H. H Clayton said Thursday GRIFFIN BETTER The shooting Wednesday started When Watson entered the Capitol Loan office and h ld up Louis Grossman Grossman Gross Gross- man proprietor Charles a a. watchmaker and Ben Rose sales sales- man Grossman refused to obey orders or or- ders and the bandit fIred while Grossman grabbed a revolver re and returned fire Watson turned and andra ra ran from the shop pursued by Rose Nathan 1 athan Grossman brother of Louis Detective Griffin joined the chase ase up Regent street and Grit GrU- fin was wag shot when the bandit was cornered When the bandit again ran ran Grossman emptied his revolver at him one ot of the bullets pIercing above the heart cavity Jt It was at fIrst believed that Louis Grossman had been shot In the rIght wrIst but ray X-ray show showed d the Injury was caused by a a. splinter ot of glass The was not seri serl- ous Griffin also escaped l Injury and was reported considerably considerably consider consider- ably Improved Thursday at the Hol Holy Cross hospital Three men were arrested following follow tollow- Ing the holdup as suspected accomplices but wIll probably be released released re- re leased according to Chief Clayton The men gave the names ot of Ed Westover 35 Thomas Steele and J. J l F. F Tate aU all believed to have been friends or of Watson atson |