| Show CLEARING UP THE TE E MYSTERY Selby Smelter iMay y Be No Secret i SAID SAm TO fO II HAVE YE CONFESSED IA T lor Slip Min holed to 1110 Toll rohl Where the it Is I ISlIn San SlIn Francisco Aug Au 10 The mystery 1 of the lie great bullion bulon robbery rob ery at tho the Sel Selby Selby by smelting works will trill wi probably bo be en on entirely cleaved cleared up tip 11 before night and the missing gold may all idi ni bo ho recovered It ItIs I Itis tho ho sue sus suspect Is believed lolle t lint John Winters Winter sUI Pert Jeet now nw In III custody c hits his made mado lado a ful fuli ful confession and bag hal ima declared I that tin the Is lying In tip t C shallow water Wlter of ok straights The rime confession Is la Iad end d to have In III th lie oleI of uC Captain of ot Detectives Seymour af at after It ator ter or the thA prisoner had hud been examined at nt great length by Iy of Police Lees and Superintendent Bayers Sayers SIt of ot the Pin Pini i lr on agency The Th officials then lieu char chilI chartered chartered tore u a I tug and und taking Winters with them went up tho the bay to 0 the tIme Smelting works work Hero itero soo 1 detectives were ivere taken on oil Oi board bJ and the tho tug tUi proceeded roce lel to Crockett where It was vas S proposed to upend the lie night Hero Here trouble occurred d db between b time the Sun Son Francisco ani I Sheriff herr Veale Valo of ot county In which tlC ho robbery was wa n committed Tho rho i SherIff IHrl demanded the tho lie custody of o the prIsoner ami anti this being refused yv tm I cured it search warrant A truce true was WIB I arranged however and early eally this i morning the lie entire party part boarded the ho 10 tug tu and started for Martinez the coun county I It ty t seat Real ent Winters was wal handcuffed and 1111 guarded with wih the utmost vigilance Sheriff Veale stated that he lie un that a u complete confession had peon een i ima made ma e antI and a Superintendent ent Von Der er Horn HOPI said Thank honk God our la Is lq over oer we will wi soon have the tle gold gol back back No more definite statements have been baCh le tl made but a hi gasolIne launch haunch has hasbell been bell sent to Crockett and amI the tho tug til Is provided with wih grappling apparatus which It I Is understood d will wi be put In use today The two bars bare of ot gold found round on time tho beach lay III on tho lie rocks just beyond the hI hIeM end eM of ot the tho railway tunnel farthest from the works To prevent the hie tide from washing Into Its Is roadway rO the time Southern line hat his dumped of Dt tons of ot boulders along the tIme beach hunch an as ana ni asa a n breakwater The rime bars of ot gold were found un on these rocks and nM In the ha hay Just off oc this point Is where the time gold cold col Is In believed to have been heen hidden Time The water Is In shallow and as the lie bul huh bullion bullon lion lon Is parked packed In iii leather sacks which would easily resist the lie force of or orthe the time tide and could not n f be le carried Into time the channel hannel the recovery recover r of or the time gold goI It Is 18 thought will wil ii be e a undertaking antI and especially us ns Winters Is expected o to point out Its Us exact la ho laIt hotI ClI t t tIt lil tI n It Is still a whether the time ns l the type of or one man manor mal manor or of several 11 rl Many circumstances ei that have hae come to seem seer to Indi Indicate rate cate c te time the complicity of o name someone one within the time works and nul the manner In which the he theop op nw was mias WA drilled In th loor of ot the safe In Is II thought to show such Ilch a knowl of Its Is Interior arrangement ment its Is could not have been ben possessed po by Win VIn Winters tore tors Ij nry proprietor of ot the time boarding house near the Selby works work Is confident n tent that that there were pickets at both ends of or the railroad tunnel tunnel One night about two weeks ago ho he was returning from frol Crockett rockett In company with bis 1113 1111 wife le and ami as all they the approached the tO railway tunnel two Iwo pistol shots wore Were orO fired fred He lie le also says he line has heard In the night that his boarders hutte also tio spoken of hearing shots hota and whittles hl p |
