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Show BANDITS HELD FOR GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION Gang Connected With Crimes in All Parts of Country; Held in Salt Lake for Trial W. L. Payne of the department of justice, Captain Smith of the United States marshal's office, R. H. Wooton of the bureau of criminal identification, identifi-cation, and Deputy Sheriff Roper of Utah county, came to St. George last Saturday morning to question the prisoners captured by Washington county officers and posse last Wednesday, Wednes-day, ilid iieid in jail here, and to make an investigation. Roper was endeavoring to connect the prisoners with the murder . at Spanish Fork a short time ago. The federal officers returned to Salt Lake Sunday with the man and two women and they will be held in jail, there until next April when the grand jury will act on the case. In the meantime efforts are being made to link them up with crimes in several states, east, south and west. These range from petty larceny to murder. From information received it is suspected the gang murdered an officer of-ficer in Ohio about a month ago, the captured man admitting they engaged in a running gun .battle and that a man may have been killed. -A number of states have wired officers of-ficers here asking that the remaining members of the gang be held for (Continued on page 3) SUITS HELD .bK0R filUND JURY INVESTIGATION' lCoUnuod from Pai: 1 d congratulating the nuthori-l1; nuthori-l1; the capture. nv conflicting stones were to d , , the man and the women. As W60", could be learned the con-nfl,r con-nfl,r nf J U Snvder, alias Wil-i0s Wil-i0s printed in the News last K is correct, except that, it was r' brought out the women were t H up near Reno. Nevada, m- of in Kansas. 'tr escaping from the state peni-Afl peni-Afl ' nt Jackson, Miss., on Sep- i the two men 'i unu-Ccoupe, unu-Ccoupe, the property of M. Bul-r0' Bul-r0' ' of HatUesburg, Miss. 'W headed north and west, steal-. steal-. Applies along the way. They ""J up the two women and went P1C o Eoseville, Calif. There they Inrd the small machine, broke ab3nTraSe. stole a Dodge sedan fflt Pitched the Mississippi plates to a, rj00e According to advices Tm California they are suspected , minv other crimes m that sec-The sec-The Dodge was stolen on Sep-Ser Sep-Ser 26, and the four started east fitting burglaries on the way. El the Dodge was a moving picture Lliine Snvder says this was thrown "rem the highway into a deep ravine near Ely, Nevada. Thev passed through northern nun " Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio' Kentucky, West Virginia, Vir-lia Vir-lia Tennessee, and on into Miss-Lopi Miss-Lopi 'ere at Tunica they abandoned aban-doned the Dodge and took the Packard Pack-ard sedan which they were driving rtien they arrived in St. George. This machine was the property of Mrs. L. . eny Mlly a new car. They then went to Arkansas where they are suspected of robbing a bank at McGehee. They have confessed to fourteen burglaries. According to the women in the party the men often said they would never be taken alive, which leads officers to believe they are connected with more serious crimes than burglary. After being fingerprinted the bandit who was killed in the chase was buried here last Saturday. |