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Show NOT ROBBED' IN CITY j That the alleged statement of J. J. I Morris, the convicted murderer of Joseph Jo-seph Wnlier Axtell in Salt Lake May I 9 of this year, as given in one of the Salt Lake papers this morning, that he received a package containing about 4,000 worth of Jewelry from the American Express company of this 6ity about May 2, ia untrue, is quite conclusive. A thorough investigation has been made in Ogden today by Detective Peuder of Ogden and Detectives Cleveland and Ripley of ' Salt Lake. Both the officers of the uptown and depot American Express company's olllcos say that no such package was received and that uo such man as Morris received a package of any kind at that time expressed from Portland. In the published account of Morris' claim that about $4,000 worth of Jewelry Jew-elry was taken from him by Salt Lake officers nt the time of his arrest, it was said that he expressed the Jewelry Jew-elry from Portland to Boise, it being forwarded from Boise to American Falls and from American Falls to Ogden, Og-den, he receiving It from the express office here about May 2. The Salt Lake detectives say that there can be no truth in the alleged story of Morris, and that the whole thing is a fabrication, made for tho sole purpose of discrediting the officers offi-cers of the police department of the capital city. There is no question but that Morris Mor-ris was in or near Ogden May 2, for it is quite certain that ho was one of the men who escaped the bullets of tho deputy sheriff at the Weber river bridge near Rlverdale on the night of the shooting of the nightwatchman at Layton In tho mad rush for liberty, liber-ty, either Morris or his companion left his pants on a wire fence and his hat wns also picked up in the vicinity. The hat was identified by a rooming-house keeper of Boise as that of Connors, Morris' partner, and it is quite probable that the pants he-longed he-longed to Morris. But the expressmen express-men say he received no express package at the time for Morris Morris' statement, as reproduced from a Salt Lake paper, follows: Morris, who has been convicted of murder in the first degree for the death of Joseph Walter Axtoll, whom he shot to death on May 2, following the robbery of the Uncle Sam loan office in East iFlrst South street, Salt Lake, made an affidavit at the state prison yesterday afternoon that ho had diamonds and other valuables amounting to 3,093.40 on his person at the time ho was placed under arrest ar-rest and taken to the police station. In his affidavit, Morris declared that none of these diamonds or valuables, valu-ables, loot of previous robberies, were secured -by "him from Uncle Sam loan office or from any other place or person per-son In Utah, and It has ibeen ascertained ascer-tained that none of the valuables returned re-turned by the police to the loan office are Included in the list to which Morris Mor-ris made affidavit yesterday. These articles of jewelry, diamonds and money, according to the affidavit of Morris, do not represent any of the loot stolen from tho Uncle Sam loan office on the afternoon of May 9th. They were previously obtained at Portland or vicinity and shipped to Ogden by the American Express to Morris a few days before tho holdup and murder in Salt Lake. Following a holdup of a jewelry store at Portland, Port-land, Morris using a fictitious name, shipping the jewels to himself as he was making his escape, receiving it at the office of the American Express company at Ogden. The diamonds, Jewelry and money, according to the affidavit, were upon the person of Morris when he was brought to police headquarters. He He was not systematically searched there, but stripped of his clothing and walked into the city jail. i |