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Show SUSPECTS ARE TO ' LEAVE THE JAIL Evidence Against Lewis, O'Dell and Companions Not Sufficient to Justify a Prosecution Murphy and Shafer Allowed Their Freedom Police Completely at Sea as to the Identity of Train Bandits. 1 That the police will abandon all efforts ef-forts to convict William Lewis and Thomas O'Dell of the robbery of tho Southern Pacific Overland Limited train and the murder of the Pullman porter, Wllllnni Davis, was mado evident evi-dent today when they released froai custody Thomas Murphy and Harry Shafer, the two men arrested with the suspects and held as Important witnesses. Thread bv thread the skein or evi deuce, which at flrat seemed so strong, has beon broken. When the four suspects were arrested, the officers of-ficers felt certain that two of the men would provo tt bo th Overland bandits It was also thought certain that tho mysterious Ilogan would be arrested In Butte nnd brought back to this city with the booty secured in the train robbery. Tho failure to find Hogan or to obtain any trace of such a person was tho first setback which tho detectives at work on tho Model rooming house clow sustained. Following this break In tho theory upon which tho suspects had been arrested, ar-rested, came the failure of tho train crew to Identify the arrested men and the shifting In the uncertain identification identifi-cation from Murphy to Lewis and again from Lewis to Murphy as the "tall man" of the holdup. Reluctant to admit tho possibility of a mistake in the arrest of tho men at the Model roomlng'house, the officers offi-cers have been trying In every manner man-ner possible to secure sufficient evidence evi-dence to hold the suspects to the courts and will not yet admit that there Is anj more than a bare possibility possi-bility that "the men mcy not bo the train robbers Evidence Fails. The evidence expected to come from Gooding. Idaho, is now known to he valueless and other sources expected to yield Important facts connecting the suspects with tho robbery havo each and all failed to lend the policcJ any tanclble evidence Countv Attorney David Johnson stated this morning that the two wit nesses were being allowed to leave tho prison without even tho taking of their testimony. The attorney admit-' ted that the chances of the case ag.ilnst Lewis and O'Dell being heard even in tho city court wero very slim. 'It is likely that tho two men will ' be liberated because of n lack of cvl- I deuce on the part of the state." the prosecuior explained. "We have so Httlo ovtdence against the men at thlB j time that It would be useless to take the case Into court. Of course there I Is a bare possibility that something' may turn up within tho no.xt twenty- I four hours that will change the sltua- 1 Hon entirely, but, unless such a thing : docs occur, the doors will be opened ; for Lewis and O'Dell tomorrow " f , Murphy Talks. As Murphy walked from the prison, I hwhlch since Janunn 1 1 ho has been I held under heavy armed guards, he was met b a Standard reporter and asked concerning hl& arrest and the ' I probable guilt of the two men still hold In the county jail. "It was a big Injustice," said Mur-phy Mur-phy "The police ought to publish a big apology In the papers to offset the damage they hao done to our ; reputations. I'm Just a working man and I'm going back to work I pxpect 1 to leave Ogden us soon as I enn get out and go to Chicago, where I may I be able to get to work with a construe- ; tlon gang The men tho police hnve locked up are not .train robbers " they'rs just working guys, the same ' ns I am " Shafer left tho police station In the company of his father, John W. Sha- r j for, and will leave Ogden this even ing for Boise, Idaho. Ho also madr the statement that he did not belieu ; the men still helcr are tho bandits. |