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Show that the coast was clear In Salt Lake and that they might return to this fliy without fear of further scrutiny. They did return and ao did Clemens on September til. Then, after week j of watch inn and wafting, the police I finally rot one member of the cans; c,-o fnttng with the trio to talk. He told of the diamonds having been sold, in either Rawlins or Denver and Rave : other important details Implicating the trio. CLUE UNEARTHED. In the meantime Weiner had disappeared. dis-appeared. The police waited for him to show up, but he did not reapietr nd efforts to lonte' him failed. Then the arrest of Wallace was made. .fuM before thin, however, a moat 1m -portnnt clue had been unearthed one thnt Khowed the rlevernena of the kH H oViectivea to no mean degree. The detectives located a ir.an named A. A. Robinson, who had at one time lived In the same house with Walters J and Wallace. He had mlflsed a null- i fiifte und. strflnire tn mttv. this suit I STORY OF CAPTURE OF ; LOCAL DIAMOND THIEF f. STIRS WITH INTEREST if . ! TALE of offificncy iii detective work equal to any vr un-1 folded in the annals of the aecrvt wrvice-or any of th grtat fletective? apenoits has been rpveald in the story of thf armtt and Conviction here last Meek of Josrph Wallaee for the asaault anil fobbry of David n.Miu'i.a in a loral hotel on the morning fjl'; tember 3. 1 To member? of the Salt Lak drtertive foree pos the credit Jor the unraveling of one of th mowt. niVHterious, darinfr and brutal: crimes ever .committed in Hah. The story in one of week of J avatchin? and trailing; of the final breakiiiff up of one of the most 1 I Cane turned up In the room opposite to that occupied by Clemens and from which the bandit who assaulted and robbed him appeared. It appeared thnt this suitcase must have been I stolen by the bandit trans; and left in i the room by the one who committed i the robbery. It was learned, too, that 1 Walters purchased a sultcuse just af tec the robbery. I From thene clues the detectives de-lu-ed the fact that the robber had j rented the room some dayji before the aaiit; that the suitcase had been stolen by ejther Walluce or Walter, and that a lel!herate plot had bred I laid to rob Clemen of the diamonds. That the assault had been mane at the time and plare was held due (o the fact that Clemens had told Walters of his intention to leave town the next day.. TRAiL-lS-TOATUOUS 1 In supKrt of these facts, the detectives detec-tives learned that a taxi tlrlver who drove Wallace to Morgan, I'tah, Immediately Im-mediately ufler the robbery hnd disappeared,- Then Hubinson lfcXi the city. Wallace was arrested on October 2. but the state's most Important wlU ncoiildTiobeln Jlangerous gang of criminals In the ountry. and of criminal deductions and clue untangling that rival the iales of Kherlook Holme, hk-otlund Jl rd nd the I'nlled States Becret wervice. It was shortly after midnight of Jidny. Septemler J. (hat David 7lemens left un elevator of the hotel t which he was stopping to go to " Jils room. He had Just turned into; . Ihe corridor lea dins; to bis tUHrtersj Jrhen a man stepped from the door-Kay door-Kay across the hall from his room. ' As he passed Clemens he shoved a Jig automatic (run Into his face ami ' -om mantled him to turn over two diamond rings. Instead of comply- 'ins; Clemens grappled with the bnn-fjit bnn-fjit and In the struggle which fl- ? he revolver bull. ( i AVRCNCHED FROM FINGERS. t j I All but unconscious, Clemens wnsj t orceif to jiernilt the robber to wrenrh I he rings from his flrmeis. The ban- J 3' It then fled down ihe inside fire es-5 es-5 a-M? and fled from the building via ejmtMfVrlMiblr He win "n dropping to the ground by a pasMtr-by. pasMtr-by. but disapfteared in the night. From this time the police begun the search for the bandit, u search that extended from Halt Iake through the North wexr, to Denver, to the Pacific j coast and back again to Halt Ljtke, j u search that has revealed the per- j i Histrm-y of local detectives and po- lice as has perhaps no other similar j I t-ase. i j From Clemens, the Irtlm. came i I the single clue the detectives hsd to work upon. He suspected Kyi Walters, Wal-ters, an old acquaintance, to whom I he had shown the diamonds a few J days before and to whom he had been talking ten minutes before the holdup. hold-up. He told the police of his suspicions suspi-cions and they tegan a, systematic watching and trailing campaign "TtK-aTTWT TlIhl' nnoIgTlMsorTJites. 3oj Wallace and ti man named Weiner . were among these. The trio. It Is I alleged, left shortly afier the roblery for Kawllns. Wyo., and from there went' to lenver. As n ruse Clemens went to Poca-tello Poca-tello and friends of the trio swul-JvUrMpwbdhin W a i 1 a e'ji "c onv TcThj h" V a s" "s cc i i re if "nT -' moHt entirely upon his positive identi- j ficatlon by Clemens as the man who as-j vaulted him und u on hs own conflict- J Ing statements to the police. He first . stated that he had been In taitfornla I up to within ten days of his arrest and i In un affidavit, asking for a contln- i uance of his case, salt he had two j witnesses who could prove that he was In lenver from August SO to Hep t ember em-ber 6. The police found witnesses who saw him in Malt Lake October 11 and Wallace failed to produce the two men .to support his Colorado alibi. J To Detective M. D. McCilnnesa. whoj : for weeks followed the member of the 'gang who gave the Important clues, ! land to Detectlven Roy Larson and C. W. Rosencranic, Is given much of the credit for the remarkable work done I In securing the conviction of Wallace and the breaking up of a gang that I for months had been a menace to Salt Lake. The diamonds stolen from Clemens, valued at close to $3000, hnve not yet been recovered, but the police ji re still In hopes that they may be Incatml. |