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Show oo GIG OF CROOKS NOW IMPRISON SALT LAKE CITY, April 21. His head swathed in bandages, covering tho wounds inflicted by Chief of Police Po-lice Barlow, Chauffeur Joe Held and Detective Earl Ripley yesterday afternoon; after-noon; sullen and defiant, and refusing to make further statements in the hope of protecting an accomplice by his silence, Charles J. Kettleson. alias H J. Hammond, who was arrested yesterday yester-day afternoon after a desperate struggle strug-gle with the police, during which ho shot Patrolman G. A. Patterson, is confined In a cell In the city Jail, while the police and Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp are recovering proporty stolen by Kettleson Ket-tleson and his accomplices and slowly slow-ly but surely forging a chain of evidence evi-dence that means the breaking up of the gang of crooks that has terrorized residents of this city for several months. Locked In separate cells and In another an-other part of the Jail from Kettleson, are D. D. Davis, Mrs. Davis and W. G. Clapper, who wero arrested last night at a second-hand store, conducted by Davis on South West Temple street, Just north of tho Herald hotol Thecal Thec-al e held as accomplices of Kettleson, but anothor man, responsible for many of the recent robberies, is still at largo, but the police hopo to break down Kettleson and secure Information that will result In tho capture of the prisoner's pris-oner's pal. Much Loot Recovered. Jowelry, silverware, cut glass, shotguns, shot-guns, rifles, revolvers, clothing, a cash register, 800 feet of hoso and seores of other articles were recovered by the police this morning after a further search of tho place occupied by the Davis couple, following information secured last night by Sheriff Sharp. Most of the property recovered has been identified by the owners and before be-fore night the police expect to locate practically all of tho loot secured bv tho robbers and it ia. expected that other arrests will follow, involving-persons involving-persons living in Ogden and other cities. Today Chief Barlow's office resem bled a Jewelry store on an auction day, while the front of the station looked like an automobile row Hour after hour people who had been robbed bj' Kettleson and hl3 conferedatos, poured Into police headquarters clamoring clam-oring for a sight of the recovered property. prop-erty. It developed today that Kettleson is the man who. with J. B. Stowart, stole an automobilo belonging to John Brooks, 659 East Second South street on July 4 last, drovo the machine to Provo and back and damaged It so that It cost Mr. Brooks $800 for repairs Stewart was arrested, bul escaped at bis preliminary hearing. Kettleson furnishing the money for his defense and Davis swearing to an alabi established estab-lished by Stewart Recently ther Brooks' homo was robbed and this morning Mr Brooks identified six rings, a watch and some mluor articles. arti-cles. nn |
