Show r i ig Special litter Inter Republican l o g n ii in r Iii n. n V Utah State News Service Ice j WRECK VAULT AT FARMINGTON BANK Three Men Use Explosive But Get Only for Their Trouble SUSPECT UNDER ARREST Telephone J 11 ii I Held hII I for fOl I lo c ini Affair c Great 1 ei t I it t Uy fly Staff Star Correspondent nt lon April I 1 IT i-Afler i A After Eter scrapIng scrapIng scrap scrap- Ing the dragnet over country roads anti and railway lack tracks th the posse of lt del dei I Iules titles ules and citizens tola today lan landed land land- ed six Ix tramps only one of or whom I Is thought to have 1 e 1 been heen connected with wih the robbery of o time the Davis County bank bani here earl early this morning Dan Brinkley Brink Brink- hey ley a telephone lineman who cannot give a good account of himself is beIng being be be- ing lug held hell and the authorities believe e ho hu was implicated In the rOh robbery er The town own was thrown Into a convulsion convulsion con con- of excitement at a 3 o'clock this morning when a loud explosion wrecked wreck wreck- ed the Davis ls Da Count County Thieo Thi-ce men who made a Job of breaking batik ing fled Act led down clown the he main street toward th time the Oregon Short Line tracks Immediately after th the explosion lon at it the time bank ban It and amid piling upon a handcar which they had previously taken from the time section house hous the they disappeared Jl tow toward d the tile south The rime handcar hand hand- hanl- hanl tam car was waR ditched In a lake lak at at at- Becks Beck's s 's sHot Hot Springs two miles north of or Salt Lake CH City and was found Cound there late hate this afternoon by a section ecton foreman Attack on ott I BUil Bank Although the trio of or tyros at the theart theart art of ot wrecking bank worked more ban an hour heur their In pay amounted to toS S 20 which was Ivas taken from the till tillit ti at it the bank bani It was said that the they 4 I r 1 A i- i t r 4 nl 1 DuUs Count County flank Dank Showing How Glass Glas Was Wn Blown Out By fly obtained securities from the safe but ul tho the cahier cashier A A. L. L Clark denies this this Subsequent lunt developments d. show that the men entered the section house hou withdrew the handcar an and ph placed ed it 11 I in readiness for Cor flight They borrowed three crow crowbars hals and as many picks and made a detour to the back of the bank building mal letour which Is shared by the Farmington Commercial store on the corner The rear window was wa braken broken bro bra IO ken open and a trail trai of or blood shows that at least one of the thc burglars was cut by 1 the glass glas While the tile little safe ac at it the tho rear of the store was being of Its Is contents ono one of the men dug a hole through h the brick wall ail behind behind be be- behind hind tile the vault ault of the batik bank A mild explosion followed the charging of the store safe e and this tills was heard by a ar r resident ll nt of oi the neighborhood AF As i 3 was aa raining the noise was thought to tobe tobe be bt thunder I Papers Paper were o obtained from the safe and were later inter sorted out beneath a tree In front of or the store where the they were found after the robbery A Asal small sal amount of or money Is missing The he back of the store was Jarred out of or plumb glass gloss was shattered and the safe was ruined The Tile loss will wi amount to about The burglars pecked away awny at tile the th brick wall wail wal behind th the bank safe aCC until un un- til tl ii they toey found build that there was yet an another another another an- an other barrier to time the vault vaul proper and anti giving the Job jol UI up they went around to the front of the tile bank lank an arid and pried the tho thedoor door open with a n crowbar Blood on Oil the handles s of or the crowbars Crowbar an and pickaxes pick pick- mu mixes axes s shows shows' that some on one nite was too excited to j stop top toe the How ilow fow from flom time the tl wound II IL I was an cas easy matter matei to open the front door anti and once in the bank loO th time the burglars lost no time Um in charging the vault vaul door with wih niro nitro One of them tapped the time till tl and cleaned clean clean- ed up overlooking 20 O which In lay on the tile counter I Interior Is 11 Wrecked It I must have been an normo charge of or explosive for Cor the Interior of the time hank bank was wn literally wrecked Tho Time door doom of the tile vault was thrown into the time middle of oC tile tho tle room tho the walls wals and anti tiLe the counters Is I's mattered 1 bv tho Conchs concus stan sion The Tile front windows were blown out an and glass scattered red across the tle wide street Th Time Tho clock was turned backward backward back back- ward wart in Its Il flight of time rile Tho sC safe was wa revealed to th the tho ro robbers bers ant and amid when the they saw sw another barrier between be he- tween thom them and easy street they tied fled making no attempt to get at the time coin Joseph Miller with wih scores of others was aroused b by the time noise of or the time ex- ex ex explosion explosion and emerged from Crom Ills hits house Just In tm time to tn see seo three men fleeing feeing westward lie He did not get a glimpse I of their features It I took about two minutes for Ca' Ca to transform itself from a town tovim of ot tranquillity kiLo Into a vortex of or violent excitement Marshal Mar Mar- Robinson who vho is also host at nt the principal Inn arrived at time the bank before be bo- before boI fore Core the smoke had hal cleared away awa I anti and there were ro scores of ot others who wito formed a Q posse poso to pursue the tue h burg 1 rg- rg f. f k f L t t. t NL N lars larf Sheriff James Ware are Jr flagged ed edth tho timi th early arl train and followed the th direction tion taken by the thu wreckers Deputies ties ls l were IC sent ent In Jn every u direction but hut tho til culprits had hod made good their es esca es- es ca cape i III e Cute Cantos Incitement The Time excitement had imad not hot subsided with the depar departure ule of the posse pose posse for women anti and anc children ren braved the thc Inclement Inclement Incle Incle- ment weather to in satisfy thou curiosity lt Lights burned until daybreak In In Iii the town and at the coming of or dawn housewives e forgot they were burning extract of Standard oil Daybreak merel merely emphasized the Importance of or time the burglary and accentuated tho tue I ap- ap i 1 t cr I ri- ri a 4 2 41 v nan Dan of the crude manner In which It I was committed It I certainly was not a finished artist artst who executed orders on that thal Job Early this oils morning three hoboes were gathered In in but each ech of or them gave a good account of or himself an and amid later latem In the da day all al were ore released The little jail jai was as popular as a fizz fountain fountain foun foun- cull cull- tain at recess anti and noon and awestricken awestricken awe- awe stricken children gazed through t the tho thohas lars bars has ha's at the men who vho ha had been held as suspects rhe They rhey were brought back hack to tn earth again by being driven off of th the grass gra ra s of or the courthouse lawn Statements The Tile lost handcar was wa a puzzle to the authorities and not until late this aft aft- af- af was as It ma made e certain that the the- the wreckers fled toward Salt Sail SaI Lake City It I was about noon when Alonzo Pierce former Cormel deputy deput sheriff accosted Brinkley Brink Brink- Je icy ley near Hot Springs Brinkley Immediately Immediately Im Im- mediately opened the tho subject of tho bank robbery and twIsted his statements statements state state- ments In such a manner maimer that the tho suspicion suspicion sus sus- of the big biS deputy deput was aroused BrInkley said ald he had hud stopped at the Lincoln rooming house on First South street In Salt SaH Lake Lako o Cit CH when the robbery robbery rob Iob bery took tonic place but o. o u telephone sage to time the Lincoln hou hoube shows v ho that thai no man of or that name nante stopped there thero In other othea Brinkley maOu madu con con- conflicting statements statements He was wa discharged dis char charged cd from Crom rota tho the employ of oC a telephone telephone tele tele- phone company a n week ago He lie had worked as a lineman and hail had traversed traversed traversed tra tra- tra- tra versed Davis county count often oren stopping at Farmington He lie I is a short thick set red haired man maim of about 25 years and andI If I f ho had a n shave sha e he lie would woul not look 1001 half bad He lie v wi ill be hel held until It Is conclusively shown hown that thal he was not In the wrecking of the bank ank An attempt to get el a confession from rom him him tonight failed If I the hills his above c Farmington started a sized life sized ply four eruption it I t Is doubtful If I the time town would have shown such a high fever re er of or excitement excite excite- mont ment as lS was shown today Country p people ople flocked In and amI heard wall the news all ni over again for fo the tenth time In the excitement of th the robbery rohber Lizzie Lizie izzie Brown Drown tho the postmistress for forgot ot that hat she had hal something like Ite 70 locked up In tile the wrecked vault ault and along in iii the afternoon it I dawned upon her with wih some force Coree that sue she sh shwas was due clue to make matie an accounting ith wih Uncle Sam She Sho worried for a few hours and anti finally came caine out of the dilemma dil dl- dl emma by borrowing the mone money from flom a n hank bank until affairs can be bE straightened out at the FarmIngton bank jank Cashier Clark stood guard at the time doorway of the bank from the time h he le divorced himself from rota the arms arias of or until this timis evening when the tile shiH was changed County Count Treasurer Treas Treas- Blood who the ulel places county funds In the wrecked bank was told toh that every evry cent of or the time count county mone money had been heen previously taken takemi L to tb Salt Sni Lal Lake e City Cily and that there was only about 2500 in Iii collateral at the bank Residents of or Farmington say ay a stranger ha had been ben watching the bank lately and a n man luau of or his description will wi Iii bo lie very welcome at this place for Cot forIt It I Is believed that he ime knows something of the time robber robbery He was seen at nt Rays Kays Raysville vl ville Saturday but out has since |