Show 8 f 1 11 L I k is Howell He H e s L Lone one lIt golf O I 1 Capture Reveals S Bold BoI Mysterious la laS T Career 01 Crime By Frank A. A Hunt end of of the trail has appeared to Jefferson Howell 45 years THE of age perhaps the most successful and daring bandit in the United States Sorely wounded he lies in a hospital at it Yreka Cal Cat under arrest following the robbery of the Trinity County bank Lone Wolf robber of gold mines banks and Ships while at large in Salt Lake gentleman and mining engineer engineer such such was the life led ledy by y Howell for a period of twenty years Somewhere in Salt Lake the police believe to be hidden immense im- im mense wealth in gold securities or jewels the proceeds of his ill ill- rotten gotten gains Howell his wife and child formerly resided on I street Startling disclosures came rapidly today following the news of his liis arrest It developed that for two years Chief of Police J J. Parey Parley Parey Par- Par ley ey White aided by Detective Herbert Leichter has played a I. I long distance game of chase with Howell and that the trail has led from Alaska to the Panama canal and across tile the th continent several times And always Howell has just evaded arrest always he left a trail of bank robberies ship robberies and other startling crimes leading his double life and seeming to enjoy it immensely Until at last the long ar arm aria n of the law reached out and he is now a prisoner m going to get before the fifteenth fit ti- of the month wrote Howell ina in ina a letter not long ago SO to a friend The letter fell tell into the hands of ot Chief White On the thirteenth of or that month montha a bank in Butte nutte was held up and the lone lono bandit secured Jefferson Howell is Is' believed to have been the robber GOLD BULLION A FAVORITE Gold bullion was the favorite loot of ot the bandit and he disposed of ot the metal to government assay offices In Salt Lake San Sun Francisco 1 and the East Fast Receipts Re ne- Ite- Ite in the tho hands of ot the local police show how that Howell through an agent disposed disposer of ot worth of ot the gold bars In August and September of at 1916 to the the- local federal officials who are Jre authorized to buy gold for the tho mints On November ember 13 13 1919 at noonday when only the tho teller was left in the Trinity County bank at I Ca Cal a a. man who later Inter gave ga his name as 1 T P. P Davis suddenly appeared He lie wore a It black mask and a. lovelea le a revolver rc at atthe atthe atthe the tellers teller's head A message to Chief White toda today said Maid that Davis admitted that he was Howell GOT THERE The young oung man was forced to back Into Inlo a a. vault and tho the bandit closed the thedoor thedoor thedoor door upon him Ho Ito then secured and mounting his horse dashed from the tho scene Hundreds of ot aroused citizens citizens citi citi- zens copos composed d a ps posse wh- wh which I pursued the fugitive Into the ne Blue lilue Ridge country country country coun coun- try fifty miles north of ot He lie abandoned his Ms horse and fled Cled on foot toot On November ember 31 he was shot In the 1 leg l-eg K and Sheriff W W. A. A Bigelow had him carried to Yreka where the leg was amputated There according to the tho police the bandit confessed to the robbery of ot the Mining tUning company company com corn I pany at Boise Dolse City Ida I a. a the tho Waldo Valdo Mining l company at ataldo Waldo aldo Ore Ora and several other crimes crimps along the California California Cali Call fornia coast He lIe stated that he went East Bast after acter each robbery and posed as asa asa a mining engineer WIFE TIPS IT OFF A letter sent by Howell H's Hs wife to a friend In Salt t Lake w was s Intercepted by Chief Chic White Poor J Jeff ff the she wrote Con Continued on on n nl page l oge 0 9 I II I T EFFERSON EPPERSON H HOWELL 0 W V E ELL L L I J J whose d dual af personality rivals that of the f famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of fiction fic fic- tion i ir r I |