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Show J'SAVAQE'S 'BUS Y LIPP I Ncfiro Who Confessed to j ; Robbery of Salt Lake Post- f office lias a L0113 Record of I Misdeeds, Running Back to J? His Boyhood Days Siii'it'1i(ii(:'iC-'i4ii Now thit Chnrlts Smnge Is anfelj stowed uwaj In the penltentlnr) f"r thne und one-half years the police of nvernl cities will bteiithe ouster. Charles Is n xerj bail negro Kiel alnee he una n child he lias j uraueil n xireei of i rime His long Immunltt from nt nat was due mil to Ills good behatlor but to Ills remarknble shteMil-nes shteMil-nes nnd nerie It would be Impossible 10 pioie hla guilt of mill) of the crimes iittiibutid to him, but enough 1ms been protect to show thai lie Is capable of almost al-most ury irlme fiom snenk-thleietj to murder The offense that led to Ills recent sen-tome sen-tome wus tho robbery of the Salt Lalto liostofBte Inst July Ills poiltlon as ele-Mttot ele-Mttot bo In the Dooly block gave hlin .xirptlonnl opportunities lo become fR- lllllllll wun tn. Dutiuing onu ue wita uui llu nun to ni gleet Ills opportunities MAH. rtMl'I.Y VANIBlini) On th- 1 th of last Jul) live tankages of rcglsti cd mall msterlousl dlsup-1 dlsup-1 euied from the olUct The mail simply xnnlshod und thete tins no the slight-est slight-est 1 1 no ns lo who took It The missing puckages contained J14I On the night of Iul list folloulng eleven pnekngea or r.giatcred mull were tuken from the lorker In the leglatry clerk's olllce In lhe bitsement nf the building Thla time the munnei In which the theft miib (nmmltted was not unfalhomnble llie locker was direct!) under a window on a lei el with the ground of the nllej. The window wus not protected by a si teen Mot col er the thief dropped sotiH Imlosi les ftotn the pni kage In the ulky nnd threw it torn registry eniclojie ner it feme Into a buck tard abutting on the allot, 1'ocKiiTEooK thi: iikst ri.ru The best clue found b the officers wus u leuthei pockethook picked up on the door In flout nf the loiker It wns empty und neemlngl) affordeil no clue, but lifter sexcrul hours of the ilosest study Postofrlce Inspeitor V (.' i-liarp found .onu lead pencil tnutka on thn leather which when held nt the right nngle from nn electric lump, were muda out to be ' I' 11 Putnt) " After tho name wus n wonl beginning with 'CI ' It looked like 'aitcn' or Olrnrd, ' the Inspector iruld not tell which. Ho found that thete wete lint two towns in the I'nlted States called ' (lit en ' and nt neither w ia the name Putnej known The machlner) of the secret sen lie wus put In motion nil oier the lnhd and there was on exhaustive search for "V I'utncyB Two ot them weie found one In Lo Angeles and the other in New York but neither toull Bile any explanation of the laickeihook I'INDl.N'O OP l'UT.MIY. Mr Sharn then ttansferred his attention. atten-tion. to 'Qlrnrde' and at Glranl. Jxan , he found the Hi nt encouragement A mun named F II Putney liud formerl) lived there but had reiuoied to (Itinnl-Bim (Itinnl-Bim Colo, where lie wus In lhe employ of the lllo (Irande railroad Mr hh irp went to Gumilon and prosecuted a (iulit Inicatlgutlon He lenrmd Hint a xoung man In the emplo) of J'titne) hail laen In Halt Lnke attending the futiinl of hla mother nlaitit tho time of the lohber) nnd he looked for n further Hue In this direction, but ho dlacoierid Hint the joiing man lind left this city four I'ayit before the right of lhe robber) Mr Sharp then called on Mr Puttie), shotted him tin poekelbook nnd naked him If lie had eier owned It Mr Putney Put-ney snld he hud owned thnt book or one Just like It and related how he had lost HOW P0CKKTI100K WAS LOST On Octnbei fl 1900 he tins in a Pullman Pull-man sleeper going fiom Kansas C'lt to Denver He had a small grip (ontnln-Ing (ontnln-Ing nmoiiB nlh.r things of small alue the pooketbook, a night shirt nnd n small revolver Ah Topeka ho left tin. grip in the seat next to an open window und went out on the platform of the ear with Congiormnn Shnftotli of Colorado to gft n bicath of fresh ulr When he returned to Ills sent thr grip was gone He i, ported Ills loss to the Pullriun (oinpuny but had hentd nothing mure of his piopeily Mr Sharp went In the Pullman head-quarters head-quarters and the Kansas Cltv police and leuimd Hut no trnee of Mi. Putney's grip hud exir hxii found b them The Inspector wns fnlily lertuln that the in in who stole the grip was the man who robbe 1 the postofrlce but he set mod to be up asnlnat ll since It was no eas-' Icr to find lhe one than tho olhir lie had learned, hottivei. Hint he must look for a crook who hud once been In 'lo. leka DIAMOND ItOIiriKHY IX I'OitTLAND The next clue as to lhe robber) of the postofrlce wus In conuei Hon wllh a big diamond robbiry In Portland A lit-brew lit-brew drummer named I.oim nthnl had tome alu ibhs In his room at the Portland Port-land hotel One night the room was cntcnd nnd n traj of dlimond-nel Jcv-elr Jcv-elr Milued at 5JS 000 whs tuken A fi w lti-ika Inter u colmed vvoinun ut Oinulit miillul u draft for tUtQ to Hnvuge a mla. Ircas ut Denver She wua In piiaNiaalmi ot u unite amount of J.w.hy nd when cprmnsl b the k,II, she (onf.aaxl thul It wna part nf the jvropeit) stolen i t Ihi Pen Hand hoiol Her slot) Impll-(ai'dSiMig. Impll-(ai'dSiMig. and Kill) Wile, iinnther '"gr. from Salt Uikt HiiMigj had It sppenreil, sieineil work !,! io"i h" fi. V1" huul I'""ured a Key to Loin nthal a room tukiu Hi diamonds i nd glvtn thnn lo WH, . 'it, lulter gave sum of them to the wnnmn to dhipoae of When ah. r uehed ()lnB. hn she hn I realized $C00 which ah" mail d lo Dimcr Three thousand dol-liia dol-liia wottlt of the dliimonda were le-covcrcd le-covcrcd nnd there Is u good prospect of B' tung the lest of the swag PAWN TICKKTS AH CI.UI.S The confession of the woman led to lhe urieat of Savage In Monti en 1 When he wis lnl en buck to Portland the olll- - - m?Wmm i xltMH Charles Savarje. eetR found In his pcaaeaalon two Malt Like tKiw n tkketa These tvtie sent tn Inspector hhnip, who found that they hud been given on a wnlth stolen ftotn the home of Dr i'enke nnd on u Htnlen Llka' (haim Mr Hhutp then remem-beted remem-beted thut Sivngo hnd been einplo,cl us ileiutni bo. In the Dool) block und ho begun to hio thtough the m)stery of the poatodlce robbcrv. SAVAOH S ATTHMPT AT MlTItDHP. He mndo n trip to Topeka lo see If he could connect Mnvngc with the theft of Mr Putnev s grip nnd tins gintlllxl lo leurn thut Savage hud been i-ceti In, tin KnnsiiH capital on the ver) da, the antehel was tnken lie also learned mat!) other things about the negioa Topeka record Ho was known thete ns Chnrles htevenaon and ns ltlll) rnotl At that time he hub budl, wanted by the police for nssuult on a noio fire-man fire-man whom he shot In the fin e on one of the main stieets of the cltj In Mn), IjOI Ho had had a row with tie flrem in over a woman On the (lute mentioned ho hum his rival lit a attect eo-ner diagonally nirosa from the tornir on which he wns standing He dret. n le-volver le-volver and fired six shots nt the lire-man, lire-man, one of which entered hla face nn 1 lodged fo close to the jugular vein that the surgeons did not date to remote it The flrem in leiovcred but he cnrrled' the bullet In his neck when he left the hospltul iiih cAitnurt Aa klkvaiou ijoy. After thla estnpade Huvnge left lo. rekn and enme to Suit Lake He li gan work ns elevatot boy In lhe Dooly block Jul) "th and worked until the ISth One night In November, 1901, nf-ler nf-ler the Piitluntl Job n negio policeman wns Mantling In ti bnrber shop In Knn-ras Knn-ras fit, looking out of lhe window when he saw Huvngi go li, on the sidewalk side-walk He ran out nnd pursued Hut ago for several blocks and llred a number of shots but the fugitive got nvta) hnvuge hnv-uge afterward told Inspector Sharp tint one of these bullets went through hln hair oir his car. AitrtrsT or thi: nhgro. The (1 lence already secured con-V con-V Inccd the nstnl authorities of H iv age a guilt and the finishing touches were put on tho euao b) the statement of Savage Sav-age s mlstrera made lo Ins eclor Shurp, nnd tho ollkers concluded tho time hue' come when they thought It desirable to tnke the Joung man Into utsliid), A wnnant wns sworn out In Denver wheiu Kuvogo had gone after hla aenulttiil of the dlutnond lohber) charg. at Portland Port-land It was predi ted that the vvar-rint vvar-rint could not be served In Denver be. cause Havnge had no mnnv avenues of tciiie and ao mun, friends In that city, but lhe Inspector located him b) ineaiw of a letter to a vvoinun find the poatu! Inspeitoia and Plnkirton detectives traced him on the night of June 111, UOJ, to a colored naslgnutlon-house The, Mirroundcd the house und one of the of. llcers kolng to the door of his room vvhlaiiercsl his nnme This brought him to the door and lhe moment It was opened a levolver was thruBt Into hla fno Savage ami his female companion mined an outu, that disturbed ev.r) Inmate of the house and acnt Hum all cetiiolug Inivuid the doms 'lhe olll-coin olll-coin nn guard met them villi drawn levolv.is nnil permitted no one to lenvu until Savage wun honed and brought out He was regarded as a. desperate man and over, pneaullon vvna tnken until he wns snfel) lodged In the Arnp. ahoo count. Jail He had n heating lie fine Iho United Mutes Coinlnlasloni r In Denver und was committed for tilul In Via It SAVAOH'S ("0'I'i:S3ION. He vvna awnre thnt the nuthorltles hnd niiiile evident i nn which In convict him ami he decided that It mli.ht be In hla bent-Ill to inuke a clean luiaat of 11 He aent fot Inapectot Sharp and lelit-xl lelit-xl the nnitlculira of the lohbei, of the Jlat Ho anld he watched hla chnnee vvh, n lhe leglatry dirk una away mil ellmbPd down Inln tliu poatolllce lust. incut tttuiiig tun niiniili of legl.tued latkuges fiom the lorker he put Hum on the window Kill .limbed out, picked up his plunder and sliirlxl down the alio) al-io) tovvptd Pl"rpniit Micit one of tho r, glaletxl piickuges contained merchandise merchan-dise und wns eoiniwhnt hnrd In ttirr), in he Into II opi n. distributed Iho con-tiiitn con-tiiitn Ihrough his (HickilN nnd tossed the envelnpi over the fence Into the jaul where It wua found tin, ni xt iluj On emerging fiom the nlli, he went to hla bniiiillng-hoiiae on I'runl.lln avenue ave-nue uml examined his plunder lie found I1I In mah a diamond ilngn. tied at 5 iiHrcliiindlsp worth $sco. cltnftB for MOOO nnd a I'm lllo i:xnieH nitini, older 'Iho drafts nnd money order were, of coiitse, vnluilisa lo him He burned all Iho tm elope a mid other Iniilmliuillng e vldenie I'm iiulle a while Suvagi lefuaed lo ndmlt the inbbei, of the 1 ah. but whin In liecnini mllslled that Inapt elm Mmip know all about It ho told of that crime nlao Ife suhl he hud pnnured a key from lhe lobbj of tK. i)ny i,iotk Inln lhe iKiatolllce ()me In the oillco he was utile to rulse Iho lalch leading Inln the ui'lstis iliiHirtiiunt with u plieo of win With tho live lmrlniHi's of mil) he letinied his sleps locking tho door behind him nnd went lo lhe ,ri, whne in examined lhe letters took out tin 5111 mul illicit tho icmnuiilH iivvuy Siivui, ,,irad.,l Ktillt, on hi, tllul to the lobbei, of Iho 31st Hi expected to get tlkhi or ton . " 'W'" linn i iti(i , ' in mi .. annouin I ,h,n , ., ' "' Jo m , hive h a.' ....ihatiiiv ' " ; vteic only In i , ", ' IP , To beglnW born about iit , ' n s Ills fnth i s r, ni " li h Ills mother tr r i, ' k i , age and I h ,u t , '.'" n mine Aa a I t hu1" '' newsboy, b, ll i,o hn various tim, , . 'nit bu, U Inn h. u c , ' ' I cloned ll s til . l ' I' bet in e ki jivn hurt I "tor In ihc r,'"'1 r l' Id nee nil ! , " f kot lilt u) wn , "' JOO oriio , i ' r whit wns t 11 u ,"" r i ling Han r , i , '' k ui Bro criminals ,'mt" , lilf the rltn 3 , , ' ' ' It was whu, h ltIfl t Bung that ho hi i .... I, Savage lro b Pl, ) thief i:tcncllnn the n i lntlona he c nir" , V' was a pntti , , , m rbs Lcitinlng th t ,h -, u,l b an Iq m , ur , , lado South rnjurusSVaV'" MAUL lir0.i, t Hilly Hcno the i' Southern d to in ,, ,u, r the ,ard looklnc for J,,'.1'" ' eaine upon Sat g XiJl" entrnt cc Into n c r li" r, at themi'iobutlni.toadofniin lattet drew a are rnoliJ .1 It loose In Hone .V,,1, lite was i rcnslMi s h u so In lert tly-M ilv " f legs woull lurr, him ' cUl At one time th tolim ,k . hud mine whoroVh,' rhes got reliable Informal , was m a ceri In hou .i1 Dla e surround, d by ,. 1' but whin a .earcl, " wn not found lie had t, ,w' over tho roof or by a , ,! He en aped f r un in muniv Z sltuitlon In Toi ki m,, . iunilous munnir MAIL UOI1I I It in ropTu, On leaving Silt I ke last iai tutniiiir the ro-toin o mutr- his pal, Kelly W 11 ) v, , ' Portlutid A d , or two a i ris rived thir tn y m0 a txnn,-Istered txnn,-Istered mull from th mull tn k depot is It vv i abuut to t m uu. lhe trnnnor In which uu llluatrnl s hi vat. darlrir , AVhlle the tr iin w s Mandlpt t deiot and th1 m n ti.r ia.u. m ill the thi f cr led under iti car, gribbed the r gister pot li bin k under th car nnd ran tl the jnida At a pre irrati?! m, tin w the pouihoicruhlirhboirl to WH, y, who i as waiting on a er sldr Suvagi then threw Hi sue-s on thi truk and Joined T This robbuy only retted thun mono, . Tl'HNLD TltK K IN MFM1"E Snvnge st i,cd In Portland until dn,s after that diamond robber; went to Dinver and there n Springs Ark At the latter pk burglarized two or more honsa, whui business got dull tie rant" Memphis and pull 0 off nnoth r Job A m ill in gon 1 ft the der n load of tnall fur the ijostoffl i door was faatenrel by putting lh over the staple and the padlock tl tin hasp, but the padlock ira locked When tho postolrlce itji r the terlalered mill aut h wu (ot was found, rifled n few IiouriU the tontractors barn No one 1 how thli crime had been .mmr until Inspector Sh rp In follmlt the Silt l.ak. c e goi the ttorf Snvage'a mistress, who had lot him nt Hot Springs, Sivnge climbed Into lh mall" ns It was being driven up tail sorted over the pouih s until b the one ho w anted, got out on Iti i opiated the padloik ni It hadtv fore and dropped oft the n ij out nttinctlng lhe uttenii in ol ill er He then made his wny ulin tractors' bain, went through the nnil left tho Kiuih and letinl empty mall wagon to throw ror; on the drivers suhpix'thd or nn.N nn itoni: Prom Hot Springs SatiurepaUi to Tiipikn nnd It wns then thai at ch ised by the poll, cman Leavl t peka he vv nt to Montreal wherein ntrcslcd anil taken hack lo rw AftPt belmr nciiulttcd there for a evidence to convict him of the oH-robbery oH-robbery lie riturred to Drnver Oa ICth, a day oi two aflrr bli ti lhlrt,-eine picknges of resliterM wen taken from tho Denver pew tho thief irilnlng urecM by ffl' nlong a narrow coping nboie nnd gating throurh " "W window ThN crltno has not bi ought home to Suvnge hot til (era hive their auaplclon. Altogi ther Wnnl. n Dow 1 HM gruHiliitcd on hnv Ing such an If Pllshcd gitlat as Mr " lo be hoidl that he will not part him uny sooner than the lay """ |