Show sheriff WELLING MAKES IMPORTANT IHU CAPTURE 3 on saturday afternoon sheriff job welling arrested a man who gave his name as frank smith and a woman who claimed to be his wife as they were endeavoring to get away from brigham city in one of joseph joeph i fullers taxicabs the evidence found on the pair leads the officials to believe that they were implicated in the robbery of the mendenhall bank at springville Spring ville last week in which app approximately roxi pate in currency and liberty bonds ve were stolen when three men entered the bank and forced cashier guy W mendenhall to lie flat on his lace t ice on the floor of the bank while they rifled the money rack and bond chest in the bank vault the capture of smith and the woman claiming to be his wife was effected thru information that was telephoned sheriff job welling by alma josephson at malad that official intercepted a party in a taxi coming from snowville Snow ville just outside of malad on friday and because of the suspicious action the members of the party sheriff josephson suspected them of being bootleggers in making a search of their car and persons he discovered that they had a tremendous amount of currency in their p oc k e t s there being three men and two women in the company upon finding no liquor sheriff josephson permitted the company to proceed and then became suspicious that they might be implicated in the springville Spring ville bank robbery he followed that clue and discovered that one man and woman had come to brigham city and the other two men and woman had left for lo 10 by auto he telephoned sheriff welling in this city early saturday y morning and that official got busy imme immediately diat elv by going over to the boothe hotel where he learned that a man and wornor hd had zan 4 ji that morning he was given the room number and went upstairs only to find the ro room oni vacant but a mal mais ls vest was hanging on a clothes hook and the sheriff then went bouc bouc onto the street to fird the owner finally locating him standing on the sidewalk near the golden rule store dressed in a suit of clothes of the same pattern as the vest in the room at the hotel but minus the vest upon lipon question questioning inz the man mail ahe sheriff found out that he had come from malad althou although arh the man first said he came from manilla manill a by the assistance of a little coaching on the part of abe sheriff he decided that malad was the place and stated that he was a stranger in these parts and had passed through so many towns that he could not remember the names of them all when asked if he was ever in brigham before the man answered no and yet he stated that he got into malad by train the sheriff asked him if he had not been to snowville Snow ville and left a broken down car at that place and the man replied in the negative more afore questions were asked and answered in a conflict conflicting ini manner and the sheriff then advised the man that if he would promise notto not to leave town for a little while his would not be disturbed but that if he did attempt to go he would be placed under arrest the offic erthen went to his office and communicated with sn lowville snowville Snow ville and an d received an almost perfect identification of the individual who was under suspicion sheriff williams at provo was also communicated with and more identification was giyen given and sheriff welling was instructed to arrest the ma man n about an hour and a aalfs time me was consumed in the telephonic exchange and then the sheriff deeded decided that tie ne had better heck up tip on the party ti questin cs he vent to the 1 oapl room and ald i omd it vae vacant j nt L upon rp theA the street treet nothing could be found of df the man so the officer an all auto and raced to the jejna le ie depot in time to intercept the train and found that hig quarry y had ad not attempted itta r 1 told tog a aay ia by that rute at that the el nt lie lic was informed that a granger had enga engaged engaged gei aoe joe T fuller tp show he and his fifa about in the taxi and a call at the T linnel advised the she sheriff r that fuller had gone to ogden wit gitya afa man and woman the sheriff ien headed south the overtook i the parey at perry where hass N arrested the man and woman brought them back and loald locked them up in jail Smiths was searched at the boothe hotel tel before going to jail andt relieved of most of ivsich was in currency the carand officer I 1 and his assistants did not search the woman but upon locking the th ellair pair in jail she was searched by sirs mrs louie douie frodsham p one of the lady employees at ait the hotel smith was waa searched at the jail and in the bottom of his shoes were found 2350 worth arth of liberty bonds it was also learned that he had expended for clothing for himself and wife and when taken into custody they were both rigged out n the new clothing Q hi guy uy W V mendenhall fi n d miss clark ar k a stenographer of springville Spring ville and mr R C willey representing the aetna insurance company came to brigham city on saturday evening and mr mendenhall positively identified the man a as the one who guarded the door at the bank while his two companions were getting away with the money mr air mendenhall also identified some of the liber cyb ands from private markings he had placed upon them when asked where he got ot the bonds smith stated that he was given them by a stranger just this side of ogden he also admitted that the big chandler chandl ell car at snowville Snow ville was his and that he had been with the car but was not at snowville Snow ville the officers from utah county returned to provo sunday with the man and woman whom they placed in tl the LI e county jail there the other three suspects were apprehended atla grande oregon as they stepped from the train being identified by their tickets and baggage checks which information was furnished by the taxi driver who took the party from malad to pocatello the officers feel absolutely certain that they have captured the robbers i of the springville Spring ville bank and cecur secured ed at least part of the money that was stolen |