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Show S. L. Kidnap Suspects Arrive, Threaten Attempt at Escape Woman Victim of Abduction and Robbery Tentatively Identifies Edwards Threatening to "take any chance" to escape, Einar Johansen, 26, and Harry Edwards, 34, were kept under constant guard at the city jail Saturday as police sought definitely to link them with kidnap. tured with Johansen and Edwards near Grand Junction were held in Provo for investigation of auto theft They are Ralph Myers, Dan Shea. 6A. and Jack Shea. 18. The three denied knowledge of theft of a car at Psyson. The machine ma-chine was found with the five men when they were captured while cooking breakfast in an arroyo 25 (Continued on Pan Three) (Column Four robberies here. The two ex-convicts, manacled hand snd foot, srrived st 9 p. m. Fridsy from Grand Junction. Colo., where they were recaptured after a jailbreak Thursday. A crowd of 200 persons surged outside police headquarters as an automobile bearing Johansen. Edwards Ed-wards and three police officers drew up. The manacles were removed and the suspects were hustled inside, where they were booked formally snd lodged In separate cells sfter their clothing had been searched carefully. A special showup was held for them Saturday morning, police questioning them on their former records. G. A. Brown, local attorney, who la named In a court complaint as hsving been kidnaped and robbed by Johansen and Edwards, attended at-tended the showup. He made no comment after viewing the defendants. defend-ants. Meanwhile, three companions cap- They'll Take 'Any Chance' for Freedom :.--r-. - '-.: : ' I . ' '" .- '' -- " r -'-ySji SUSPECTS SHOWN ON ARRIVAL AFTER TRIP FROM GRAND JUNCTION Einar Johansen and Harry Edwards, manacledi Detective H. Fred Lee. V . IT .. ( : K I . -: v ' GETTING READY TO HAVE CLOTHES SEARCHED Einar Johansen starts stripping for police SUSPECT PAIR RETURNED HERE (Continued from Psg On miles west of Grand Junction early Thursday. They said they joined Johansen and Edwards, two of whom they knew in prison, somewhere near Payson. Edwards was grinning broadly when he was led into police headquarters head-quarters here. The grin faded for a moment when a bystander shouted a "wisecrack." Johansen'a face was expressionless expression-less and he did little talking. Both men are nautrally blond, police po-lice said, but Johansen'a hair had been dyed black and Edwards apparently ap-parently had undergone a henna wash. They said they had gone to a hairdresser's, but refused to say where. Edwards and Johansen said they would attempt escape again if the opportunity arose, according to police. Edwards said he is suffering from ulcers and colitis and that he has been told he cannot live more than a year. "I'd rather be killed than go back to the Utah prison," he assertedly remarked during the ride from Grand Junction. When the five were captured, possemen found a complete outfit of women's clothing and cosmetics in Edwards' possession. Officers said he has a formerly used trick of dressing as a woman. Edwards told officers that of five years spent in Utah's prison, from which he was released last July 1 upon completion of a term for burglary, bur-glary, two years were spent in the "hole" the solitary confinement dungeon. Brooding Related He Indicated he had brooded and, when he was released, was ready to "kill anyone and everyone," police said. Johansen complained about prison food and aaid prisoners had to buy at the prison commissary to "get enough to eat," according to the officers. Edwards told police he and Johansen Jo-hansen had "no chance" both times they were captured in Colorado. The first time, when the five were caught possemen surrounded tbem. Edwards had a pistol, but it was broken, officers said. After Edwards and Johansen sawed their way out of the Grand Junction jail Thursday afternoon "everyone in town was after us," Edwards said. "We didn't dare move after we got to the edge of town," he said. "Once we were mistaken for a part of the posse. Someone asked us if we had any spare guns." Contrary to first reports, Myers snd the two Sheas were not in the cell from which Johansen and Edwards Ed-wards escaped. Salt Lake City police po-lice said. Police said Johansen and Edwards admitted last week's shooting affray af-fray in which the two escaped from police pursuit Detective H. Fred Lee and L. B. Gifford received minor wounds from shotgun fire. Mrs. Retta Berghout. 173 G street victim of a recent kidnap-robbery, viewed Johansen and Edwards at a second showup Saturday afternoon. after-noon. She tentatively identified Edwards, Ed-wards, police said. Mrs. Berghout was forced to drive a man through Liberty park, where he took t from her and fled to another an-other machine, containing two men, which had followed her car. A third showup was to be held Saturday afternoon, to be attended by Dean William H. Leary of the University of Utah law school: Dr. Mildred Nelson, stats heaJtb. official, e and Vaughn Wightman, also recent kidnap-robbery victims. Johansen and Edwards arrived here In custody of Detectives Lee and W. E. Eggleston and Patrolman R. S. Cahoon. With Patrolman C. W. Farns-worth. Farns-worth. Patrolman Cahoon last week obtained th. original "lead" on the two suspects. They arrested Carl Pearson, 19. acquaintance of the pair and who told the officers Johansen and Edwards Ed-wards would be at a beer parlor in Murray. Officers went to the beer parlor, but Johansen and Edwards sped away in a stolen machine, peppering pursuing police with a shotgun. Detective Lee said Edwards did the shooUng. Neither suspect would say which on. wielded the gun, bow ever. |
