Show REIGN OF OF TERROR RECALLED y y y 1910 NOTED CRIMINAL YEAR A ii I. I I II T 1 II a 1 F. F f r. r it 9 i. i faN 0 it M i J t j. j t. t M J S SA Si Si JP f 1 i 1 l JJ ft f i iiI iiI-h t i A 4 Noted crooks caught by police of Salt Lake during reign of terror in in to 1910 Top row left to ri right ht John Furey John Delaney and L L. L E E. E Driskell Bottom row loft left to to right Harry Thorne Thorns Thomas Vance and arid Riley Hayes I I I I I i I I I I Thrills Were Recorded in Police History Almost Every Day The year ear 1910 will long be remembered In police annals of Salt Lake as aa one of ot the busiest In tho the history of the department de de- de Readers Headers of Salt Lake Lake- newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers were given chen more thrills each elch da day during that year ear than probably ever before so 50 far tar as criminal news was ns concerned A former police reporters reporter's diary shows i that practically the last day of 1909 I December 2 19 29 to be exact started things humming On that day dat the steel teel structure structure ture ure of the tho Hotel Utah was waa dynamited January 1 1 1910 Fred 1910 r Fred ed Wilson and John ohn Delaney arrested In connection with tho the Hotel Utah case Januar January 12 Undesirable 12 women woman driven riven from the city January 14 H- H HIrs 14 Mrs Irs Newell attempts attempts at- at tempts suicide January Patrolmen IS-Patrolmen hitting bulls bulls- eye eo yo In target t. practice January 17 A. 17 A. A O. O Maeser found dead silverware stolen from Mrs H. H Hanauer Hanmer Han Han- mer auer 1111 East First South recovered January Januar 19 19 Miko 19 lIko Austrian murderer picked ed up for tor Chicago b by sheriff at Bingham January 20 Street 20 Street car holdup on Wn Waterloo line Januar January 24 Tony Ton Tony flagman for tor or the 0 O. O S. S L. L slashed John W W. Jones JonE Motorman A A. E E. Davis goes crazy died January 25 January 2 25 Street 25 Street car up hold-up on Second West Vest line Officers Griffiths Carlborg Armstrong Rhodes Sullivan and nd Sergeant Johnson trail Charles Charlet Mur- Mur ph hy and nd George Georgo Redcliff car ups hold-ups In n snow to Bountiful January 25 Police 6 Police dog doC Bob tr trapped a burglar In the basement of or the Brice drug rug store stOIC k Counterfeiters William Morgan and Frank Prank Sprague arrested by RIpley Curran and Chase January Four Foul Four con men caught In n an East Third South rooming house ono one being Doc Doc Cameron of ot Faynes Fanes 1 jewelry famo farno January 29 Hemenway 29 Mos Moser r dismiss their action In slot machine case casu ca o Wilson and Delaney alleged 1 dynamiters placed on trial and argue their heir own cases February 1 Conrad I-Conrad forger located at nt Colorado Springs II February 5 Officer 5 Officer i E E. Johnson has an attack of ot pneumonia Had an operation opera opera- lion Ion on his lungs without anesthetic March larch 7 7 February 9 9 A. A. A Johnson Jumps from Luna theatre sign to street W Wilson II lIOn dynamite suspect set free Delaney given six months In the tho county count Jail February Two H-Two 14 Two bandits hold up Second West car February Razor Iii Razor Jack J J. J RIchardson Richard RIchard- son a negro sentenced to fine or 01 days In elt city Jail for tor beating his mother Prisoners plot to escape from county Jail L L. L E E. William Morgan nn John r Furey re Dominic attempt escape F February 18 18 Tracy Tracy pleads guilty guilt to passing passin tools Into county Jail February 19 Harry 19 Harry Williams threw a handful of cayenne cRonne pepper In the tho eyes cell of ot Jeweler In an ln attempt to ro rob b him M M. W. W Wilcox attempts suicide b by slashing his throat February 21 21 Poplar Poplar Grov Grove C CAT car U ran mn Into nto freight train at Seventh South N None No Noone o one Injured d February 27 Body Bod Body of Cleveland Clevelan d Coombs 17 11 years ears of ot ago age found In Perrys Perry's Perry's Perrys Per Per- rys ry's 18 Hollow February r A. 8 2 A. A H H. Scott Inventor arrested b by Detectives es Wheeling an and d Schultz for tor San Bernardino authorities Charge embezzling diamonds from Mrs Mra A B B. Marlon of ot that city March 1 l Chief shakes shakeR up department t h by firing tiring Patrolmen E E. W W. Price Georg George e Harris W. W H. H Clough and E. E F F. F Rhodes Rhode March 3 John I-John John Furey Furer on trial for hoMIng holdIng hold hold- Ing up Finch cafe November 12 12 1909 Sentenced to serve twenty year years March 14 14 Archie Fane Fano shot b bv by LM I r. M. M Duncan negro neTo watchman for Kennedy Y Construction company compan Died March 18 March 15 Trial fir Trial of ot L. L E E. scell charged with murder of or Special Officer Office r C. C C. C Rile Riley begins March Creeks 16 16 IG-Gr IG Greeks start labor riot not a at t laying of ot water mains main on Second avenue avenue ave are nue between en It Land and nd N streets March 17 17 Laura Laura shoots shoot a Private P Paul Patel IlI Shaunty at Fort Do Douglas U f 8 Anthony Woods saved from lynching b by Y pollen police Ho Ito Is alleged cd to havo have assaulted d a child h March 20 Organized 20 gang of ot chicken chicke n thieves arrested March 22 22 Home Home of or J. J J J. J Wallace ran ran- sacked Jewelry stolen March 24 G. 24 G M. M Quincy of ot Scranton Pa PI tawes strychnine March 25 L. 25 L. L E E- Driskell found gull guilty guilt ty of ot murder In the first tint degree March 26 G C O. O W W. grocer ir killed bv by John Hayes Haves Harry Thorne an and id idid d Otto Morgan Curio Curley Hayes Hau an and id ides d Thorn Thorne arrested within thirty minutes minute es esin a aff after r holdup March Thorne 28 Thorne signs Igns a confusion confession n In Fa Fassell sell murder case March Dan 10 1 30 Din n Grow Crow attacks Proba Probation tion 1 Officer C C. C Sperry while being taken take t to court March 31 31 Sheriff Sheriff Sharp expresses hl his S thanks to Chief B Barlow for tor assistance e rendered In protecting county prisoners prisoner a from mob violence April 1 L. l-L. L. L E. E Driskell given life Ute sen sentence xen- xen tence b by Judo Judge Lewis Thirty eight t felony flon ca cases canes on locket docket awaiting trial April 3 Antonio 3 Italian Italia n robbed April 5 John 5 John Furey f given twenty y years ears cars In state prison April C C Westminister 6 ter Presbyterian in n college entered and valuable vl books an and photographs destroyed by vandals April 8 A 8 A lone df desperado l made a string of ot seven holdups In a a. single nl night ht April 9 John 9 John Schnider h hams himself f In ht basement of 11 State street Harry Harr y Han Hall fatally Woun wounded td at San o states he lie held up un Youngs Young's C cafe In Sal Salt t Lake and the street pharmacy phar phar- macy maco t S April 10 Haydn lo Haydn Smith conference S Y visitor drinks laudanum J. J L L. Hamilton Hamilton Ham Ham- ilton mining brok broker r. r shoots himself In Inthe Inthe the D. D F. F Walker building April 11 Negro It-Negro Negro convict William H. H Brown brought back to Utah state prison on from Kansas penitentiary after absence of ot twelve years rs el A A. A H. H and P P. G O. Lund confess to destroying Presbyterian Presbyterian Pres Pres- college e property April 1 17 Grand i-Grand Grand jur Jury returned indictment Indictment Indictment Indict Indict- ment charging ne Navajo Indian with murdering Charles Fritz at Hefferman's Hefferman's Hefterman's ferman's terman's Trading Post November 8 1909 April 18 Another 18 Another dynamiting at nt Hotel Utah April 2 20 Start 20 Start to enforce curfew law taw April Jack 21 21 Jack Davis holds up Fourth North car with rifle rUle April 24 24 Laura Laura released by grand Jury April 26 26 Mrs Mrs Amelia Davis ls died from overdose of laudanum April 27 Bones 27 Bones lying In city Jail i Identified as remains of ot Mother Angel April S. M-J. JO J. J C. C Walker alker of ot Kansas City out of ot diamond stud valued at and a a diamond ring rinK valued at 3 He fell tell for tor the Heads I win tails you lOU ou lose game Dan Harrigan section tore foreman man Inhales gasoline fumes during a I. I spree Died May 1 1 Ia 1 May 1 Savant I-Savant Seventy 1 children arrested by probation officer Seven automobile accidents accidents accidents ac ac- In April May In 2 2 George George Martin brewer shot himself Motorman Youn Voun Youngberg berg ber takes gun away from holdup on l' l Fourth North car r. May 3 A 3 A. A E. E Vaughn electrocuted at Eighth South and State Stat streets rIa May 6 TonG 6 Tong war In Plum alloy alley ley May 6 6 Lewis Lewis Carr Span Spanish Amer sh Amery ican war veteran arrested as lS deserter b by Patrolman Carstensen Ma May 9 Claud 9 Claud H. H Clive former Salt Lake officer killed W. W Wilcox at Mill Milt Fork for tor paying attention to Mrs Mr tI Clive l In May 11 James ll-James James Marsh found guilty of assault with Intent to murder Mrs Irs Mo- Mo te- te Newell Ma May 12 12 of S coliseum col colla collapses la lapses su and many men dropped Into wa wa- ter May tay 13 SlIm 13 Slim Gilchrist asks Frank for tor his gun tun and then robs him of or watch and 50 0 May M 13 13 Fifteen Fifteen tons of or dynamite explode explode ex- ex I In the tho 0 O. O S. S S L L. yards at Becks Beck's Hot Springs May Ia Foreigners 14 14 go on strike at Utah Fire Clay Clat Brick company compan I Ma May 19 19 George George Crocheron 85 yearn yeAr of ot a age e makes four tour attempts to kill himself May Ia 22 Three 22 Three earthquake shocks hocks felt In ell city May IR 25 Two S-Two Two men hold up club rooms In the Clift house May 26 Willy 26 Willy Beyhl Deyhl kills himself ina In Ina a gully gull on Eleventh Ele avenue between L Land 1 L Land and M 1 streets May WlllIam William William Morgan counterfeiter counterfeit counterfeit- er cr makes escape from Deputy Riley near noar Ellsworth Kan n. June 1 I Bringhurst arrested at Ogden by Deputies Steele and HeW Hewell Hewett n for Laton Layton Layton Lay Lay- ton bank robbery and house robbery rob rob- bery bert June 2 Intz 2 Inez 19 19 commits suicide sui sul- cide clde b by strychnine route Juno M 6 6 G- G M. M r. r Karth Earth butcher assaults wife and antI then attempts suicide June 8 J. 8 J. J R. R Hicks negro kills kilts Joe Smith bootblack ck June 11 Unidentified ll Un man commits suicide at South Second West b by taking carbolic acid Juno Joe li-Joe 14 Joe Davis D' street car holdup holdup hold hoM- up makes his getaway geta from county Jail Republican Herald cited for contempt In publishing confession of ot Harry Thorne June Trial 10 Trial of or Thomas Rile Riley murderer murderer mur mur- derer of George Geon e W. W Fassell started June 24 24 Willard Thompson J Layton ayton bank b. robber arrested at Butte June Juno Thomas 25 2 25 Thomas Riley found guilty guilt and must die says saga JUI Jury Juno 29 29 29 W. W Thompson sentenced to serve eano twenty years Jul July 1 I-FA I Edward 1 ward Wilson attempts suicide suicide suicide sui sui- cide with revolver July 4 ont So prisoners removed remo from old county Jail to new Jail jai In East Last Second South street Jul July C 5 harry CHarry Harry Thorne on trial for life lite July Thorne 10 Thorne elects rifle bullet as death penalty July 16 16 William William W W. Hampton Rampton kills himself at Casa Cant L. L John A A. Jones postal employee kills Arthur Sheppard at nt Wellington hotel hobl July JUI- Thomas 24 s Riley RUey elects bullet Peter Marls Marla arrested In Salt Lake and Is la wanted for or Astoria Waldorf-Astoria hotel rob rob- bery In New Now York July 28 Leonard 28 8 Leonard onard pro Piro bartender murdered by two assassins In James Tedesco's saloon August 2 H. H. H Hendrickson alias allas C C. M. M t Yoo Woods s who duped produce farm tarm- ers era arrested Au August 4 Speedy 4 William Jeffries kills Tom Churchill In tho the Heidelberg saloon August William I Mason shoots him self In Pioneer saloon August Detective If Joe JOt Burt dies of heart failure Au August 19 19 Thello Is M Evans EVAn of ot Kansas Kanas Kansas Kan- Kan sas as CI City t arrested here hue on bigamy charge charlo August AuguRt 20 RW 20 Ro Roy Armstrong negro shoots John Brennan who ho dies two das da's days doya later AU August Soldiers 22 22 Soldiers clash with t social ov u fit 1st speakers speaker on Second South August 23 23 White White slavers rs arrested In Salt S. Lake First time slate since law went Into effect by y national government P P. P P. P shoots two Greeks Louis Loul and Gust Poul s next day August 2 29 George 29 Georgo U. U Alech h shoots himself August 31 31 David David S R. R Murray jumps from the Deseret National bank buildIng building build build- ing diving head hend first nt t from the roo rf root f to the tho cement curb of or Main street September 1 J I-J J D D. Diehl looses es 10 worth of ot diamonds in hotel September 3 3 Mamie Mamie Fitz Fitzgerald erald gress shoots shoats Sire Mrs Alma Johnson We- We green e ne nee ne- ne September 6 6 J J A. A Jones arraigned on murder charge September 14 Charles H Charles teases to fourteen burglaries in con- con iJu Lake The Rev He William T T. Brown Drown Salt rested leafed b by Charles Chlrles Pitts Pitta rown ar ar- September 21 21 Wilson Wilson Graham nn an nn Alaskan prospector Picked up a I. I sim SUPposed SUP sup posed lOO purse belonging to Peter Jeter Carlson ot of Id Ida Th Th Lb had returned from Alaska broke and found the gold in tn the streets of ot e Salt Lake September 22 Charles 22 Charles 2 B Bean an Tennessee Tennes Tennes- lost his mind for six elx weeks Picked id up see in Salt Lake and could recall nothIng noth noth- ing S September 26 Melvin Melvln Karth Earth attempts attempts suicide for tor second time Nine downtown downtown down down- town offices looted i October 7 1 7 persons Injured in tn trolley wreck on First South October 12 Thomas 12 Thomas R. R Karrick 14 H. H killed In his homo home by robber October l IS Julius hi-Julius Julius admits entering home October 26 W. 26 W. W Nieme Ginn Glnn killed Sam Finn in Commercial Bar saloon s. John Kribs mentally mentally unbalanced unbalanced un un- un- un balanced tries to drown Joe Joo Sleater 6 years of ot age son of ot Officer Sl Sleater October 25 T. S T. T Vance has now trial for murder October 30 Try 30 Try to smuggle opium Into state slate prison November 6 T. 6 T. T Vance found guilty hullt of or assault with Intent to commit murder murder mur mur- der sentenced to twenty years cars ear November 7 Harry 1 Harry tec er and Elmer J on arrested for making making C. C B. B Q Q paymaster checks John Schultz a Great Falls FaUs farmer loses In a D. fake take foot race taco J J A A. A Jones on trial November 10 10 J. J. J A. A Jones exonerated by jUf Jury A A. J. J Leichter shoots himself November T. ll-T. 11 T. T Vance asks for tor third trial November 15 15 George Rowl Rowley y takes shot at Charles Howorth whom he ao- ao of ot deceiving his daughter Later Howorth marries the girl Mrs Florence Florence Florence Flor Flor- ence Moss of ot Bountiful struck b by police auto No em November er 19 19 19 Mrs S S. S C. C Hull found dead from suffocation |