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Show rOOELE OFFICERS INCLINE TO BELIEVE CASTLE IS INNOCENT Special to The Telegram) TOOELE, June 12. The prisnners. John t.Mle and John Vining, arrested in Gar6eM on suspicion of being the robbers of the Tooele Commercial hank. have not been identified by Cashier l- 1 ei.f.. l . fnnirr, nor ov any 01 tier per son in Tooele, aa having been in the town befor thev were brought here yesterday "by the sheriff 0 Salt Lake county. The men were taken before Cashier Shafer vurday, but he said that he waa not vAnc to gay if either was one of the pair who held him up at the muzzle of a revolver and then gagged and bound turn, afterward looting the Vdl-lt. The opinion ia growing steadily that some person in Tooele, thoroughly fa miliar with the town, the topographv of the surrounding country and with the customs in the bank, planned the ro.bry. and ptrhapa assisted in the crime, concealing the money in the town, where it will remain until after rht fg rltemrnt "Tilnw river. 1,1 Thia theory i given strength br reason nf the fnrt that only one per aiu was sven on the afternoon of the crime who acted at all suspiciously. Tht was 'be rran who rode to the offices of-fices nf the Tooele Improvement com pcinv nnd fakcd ns to the whereabouts of Cashier Shafer. No person in Tooele has ever Been Castle and Vining in Tooele, except in the custody of the officer, and no local case can be made against either man. on what ia now known of them. It waa learned today, when the jewelry jew-elry found in Castle 'a trunk waa examined ex-amined by a jeweler, that the whole lot could le bought for $10 and then th Ituvcr wruld get no more than his mrnev ' worth. Castle had considerable consider-able money n his possession when ar 1 rested, also tome clothing that would not fit him. It has been learned that Castle is a native of Georgia and that be worked for the United Railways in St. Louis until January 1 of thia year, when he was discharged. He then changed his name to Jesae Ross, as he could not get a job under hia old name. He took the name of John Hice afterward and came to Salt Lake City on June 5. He haa a brother in Heber, Cl-i and a sister sis-ter in Wilkins. Ark. It has been shown that Vining is a genuine tramp, and, since he cannot be connected with the crime in any wav. it ia likely that he will be discharged from custody in a day or two. |