Show c- c I recovered 1000 for the Boswells The rhe I chief hl r. r through speedy dete detective work discovered that II planned to g goto go goto to New York lie He set a a. trap for tor hl him t I there but through the treachery of of ot aman a aman aman man whom Mrs Unwell Rowell had taken into her tier confluence confidence Novell Howell was W warned lIt In time and eS- eS escaped Prom lYom New ew York Howell took pas passage the sage on a steamship through Panama canal and VP tip p to tp San Diego Cal where he spent time wIth his Is wife Irom that point he went up the Pacific co coast t. t SHIP IS ROBBED About thIs time a box containing thousands of qt dollars In gold coin was wap taken from the Great Northern steamship steamship steam steam- ship at Seattle according according- to the 10 local fil police Howell Is believed belle to have hae been tho the robber L Letters came Into the possession of Chief White which save gave av evidence that Howell was lug a a. mine in Alaska shortly afterward afterward after after- I ward but app apparently r only as a a. blind to his criminal occupation Chief White then carpe came into communication with Howell Howells How ells ell's wife Joung Toung I Boswell gave the tho chief the power rower t tact to toI act a as his attorney as he was going going- to toI toRance I I France Rance with the he the army arms arm Chief White opened m negotiations with the bandit through the wife for the return of ot the remainder of ot the tho s bullion which Howell Howett had apparently app not yet d dc- dc posed of TRIED TO COMPROMISE According to the police Howell hail had never ne been identified as the min man who had robbed so fiO many gold miners for fifteen years earS until the Joswell robber rob rob- ber bery In con consequence quence the bandit was as anxious that the char charge against him be dropped dropped- JJ He Hp expressed a a. willingness to return the value of pf the gold Chief Chiel White se t the e promise of the district district district dis dis- attorney at Holland Ore that the case casa would not be pressed The bandit was told of ot this through I letters letter to his Ills wife but he then insisted that the charge be officially dl dismissed and asked that he be given three years in which to pay back the value of ot the gold This an angered rel the and they Instructed the chief to use every effort to capture the bandit MOST DAN DANGEROUS EROUS CRIMINAL I b believe this his man to be the most dangerous criminal the cite world has haa ever er everI known wrote the younger oun er Boswell I I would rat rather er see leJ him apprehended than recover reco the value of ot the gold The Boswells then proc proceeded to offer otter I a a. substantial reW reward rd for Cor the capture of ot Howell Bit b by bit Chief White and Detective I Leichter traced the history of or tho ban ban- dit According to the officers they thy found th that hat it he had watched ely miners ml- ml nera ners pouring gold 1011 Into bars while he stood on a cliff with a pair pall of ot field glasses g A At t the pp psychological mom moment nt Howell would appear masked and with witt witha a rifle in his hand nd and carry away the proceeds of ot the miners miner's labor NEVER A KILLER LER It is said that Howell boasted in letters letters letters let let- to his wife wiCe that he was never a killer however when Do po Witt was In in Salt Lake he Implicated In i Howell Hawell In a double murder at Leland Nov Nev Tho The murder took place In 1909 i I and a a. Mexican was convicted of ot the crime Warden Worden II II H. P. P Hendriks of ot the I state tat at City has always maintained ned that the Mexican was In InI Innocent In- In I of or the crime Mrs learned of ot the accusation accusation accusation tion of at De Witt and in a a. letter to Clef Chef Whito she Bhe stat stated d that Howell was US guiltless of ot the murder as he lie was II in iii Salt Lake alto attending the funeral of ot one of ot his little sons at the time limp the crime I was perpetrated It is doubtful if It I II I J rowell ever killed a man according I to the police pollee I The detectives of ot a score pf oC Western Vestern I cities titles are arc busy tracing the long erupt crimi criminal I nil nal career of or this most notorious of ot bandits If It Howell survives the amputation amputation am am- of or Ills his le leg 1st which physicians consider necessary ln he will be tried in Trinity count county for tor the robber robbery of ot the Trinity ban bank Ho ITe la III not flat a n ung mal man and It is III probable bable that hat he hn will die lie in n prison If h he hp 1 survives r the he sentence which may be Imposed upon him hint in California the police state that there area are a a score of at towns within I u days day's train Journey pf It the place which want I him frn for r bank robberies and other oller crimes Jefferson Jetterson Ho Howell well ha hag hJ 1 reached reachel the i end of ot hi tm trail II |