| Show X X X X X X REED REBUKES GOV BRYAN Uses Club i n Fatal Attack on Companion HERMAN H ERMAN SMITH 22 negro of Long Lake Mo con cart confessed Chief of Detectives Saturday night to Robert Burk that he was the murderer of an unidentified man manI I who was found in a dying condition in the jungles along Ogden river early Friday morning and who later I died in the Dee hospital wit without out regaining consciousness Smith said paid he Ise met hi his victim ye- ye re recently at Pueblo Cob Colo and did not know his name other than he called himself Ralph P Pen Diets en though Smith has confessed to the killing the true Identity of the dead deadman deadman man I is still stilt a a mystery An argo- argo argument argument ment mont 0 over oser er money matters matten was the motive of the crime DRAMATIC RECITAL Deputy Sheriffs Horace Van Fleet nd Joseph Joeph Burnett of ls DIl county Smith at Farming Farming- night upon a description description tion furnished through the O Ogden den police He H wa wa wa-s Immediately brought to Ogden b by Captain Burk Ser Ser- C E Noble and sitS Shirley P KImball and questioned In I ft a dramatic recital of the events event lead leading In up to t the c T I 1 spent nil all my money on Ralph and when I asked him for some of his he said Raid Get It if Ie you can Then I struck him over the head with a heavy club lIe H tried to get ret up and I hit him ln Then I hit him gain again quick and he ony kicked his legs lees I 2 grabbed crabbed his Ms shoes and hIso hat hI so cohe he couldn t folio follow folIos me Inc and ran Into the brush Money jingled d in the shoes and I r found 7 In sliver silver I hid his hat and ond shoes In the weeda near the river but carried the club a th mo me In case caa he follo followed eJ ed DIVIDED COIN COLV I hurried anav aVo av from the th city and about 10 mIles south I met two white boys boy We W built a fire and I burned the tho club after I had ht told the tho white whit men that I had had trouble a with Ith ith another negro I I came cam from Chicago to the hat fields of where I In the harvest hanest and saved saed some mono mone Then I went to Pueblo Cob Colo shere here I met Ralph We tAme yim to Salt Lake L together on ona ona ona a freight train During the tho trip I 1 Irav I gave ve him part of my money At Junction I gave him 10 and later in Salt Lake I gave him 10 more mor to buy clothes for tor me Ralph went up town to buy the clothes clotheR and then came cam back with neither clothes nor money and toM told toMme toMme me a tory ton that ho he h had been topped stopped b bv by a 0 United States Staten State mar mar- marshal marshal Rhal who took the clothes and money I made mad up my mind then that he h was wa trying to 8 gyp me an and had lied HEd Wednesday Y night we came to Ogden and built a tire fire fir in the I junglEs TALKED OF mULE flutE Thursday night we w eat st at about the fire tire with other tramps and talked about the Bible I would ha hass has's killed him that night lIght but I couldn't get a 1 gun run and the thc BIble talk changed chanced my mind We e then went to sleep after atter th the others left lert I told him that I didn't believe his story of the tho tb clothes and the money Between E I and 6 o'clock FrI FrI- FrIday Fri I Friday day morning we woke wok up and I asked Ralph If it he was sas as going to tog tog-lve give me some ome money lie He said ald J I Ive ye ve got Get it If It you youcan youcan can I I grabbed er bb d a branch of ot a limb with boUt both hands and hit him on ot of the tho th head the th first timo Ume I 1 Idon Idon don t know where I hit him the rest of the times time Then I ran IN ARMY SERVICE ICE Smith told Captain Burk that Ralph had told him he h once one served In the th Ninth U S cavalry valry and al also aloo o served In the Philip- Philip pinco pin pincer Other than that Smith said he knew nothing ot of o the tho former life lite of his hl victim Smith said aId that Ralph was a negro although often eften mistaken for tr a Hawaiian or oran oran oran an Indian The Tho negro Is la being held In Jail bond A first tint degree defree mur mur- mur- mur murder murder der dor charge charice Is I to be b flied filed ag him Monday Mondy The Tho testimony of doctor doctors po- po po lice police transients transient and other persons having having- knowledge knowledg of the finding morning of ot the i body of an unIdentified man be- be believed be to be a negro was ass 0 heard hy by a a coroners coroner's coroner jury sitting before e Judge Jugo D R It Roberts Robert Saturday afternoon U TIL MONDAY H Y ND The Th Inquest ln adjourned at S 6 o'clock until Monday Mondy The coro- coro Continued on u Page rge Three I NEGRO ADMITS FATAL ATTACK ON COMPANION AT RIVER I Continued from Page Pace One ners ner's jury lury was a composed 1 of Aaron Jackson Wilford L Bram Ill I'll and II H H Shurtliff Officer W V rr W W r Richardson andI and I Detective George t 1 Inn testified I that th they y answered an werd a a call to the riser and jungles nl at the Ogden n 1 street here they found the man at that thought to tobo tobo ho bo a negro in an unconscious condition Dr Francis R U Conro county ph that he attend attended ed cd till tile man at the tho station and later Inter at the Dee hospital where X-ray X pictures acre ro taken The Tho pictures o which were sore Intro Intro- Introduced as evidence showed shooed a 0 fiac- fiac turo fiac turo ture in the skull between bet een eight and 10 Inches In length I Dr N H Sa a afro house houe doctor at the Dee Dea D hospital testified d that ho he attend attended d the Iho patient th there thero ro and waa with him at the time of ot his death l lt afternoon t He fe cor- cor corroborate cor corroborate Dr Conro s 's t ony and said aId that to the best of hI his knowledge he lie diet died of or a skull kull If 1 iv win K SERVICE EV E B V W Brooker a firmer 1 Ing ing In at 47 West SeSt t T Twentieth street told of haing hired the man the tho thoe e before his to help unload some Borne hay He H stated that the man told him his name sos l Preston that he lie was as a Cherokee Indian and that he own owned d IbO itO where hi his father now now- now resides n lie also slat stated d Mr Brooker said ald that lIe h had been an lator In Inthe inthe inthe the American army was sas injured d dIn In a fall fail from Crom a plane in Prance and was to recuperate Brooker testified that the last time he sa saw ess the Indian all e sas as about 1 Q o'clock Thursday night I Loul Louis negro ro said uld that he and several I left tt Pr Preston ston anda and a little little li ht nig- nig nig CT ger sitting by the tho fire at about 13 12 o'clock He t testified d that he hd heard the th kiter complain that Preston had b beaten at n him out or of 7 and that ho he h was sas oft off him for Cor life lite add added d that upon unon his Cr- Cr ar rhal at the place the tho next morn morn- mornIng morn morn-ine log Ing he found the We littie lI le gone a and nd Preston in an un- un un condition He lie then noli- noli fled noli-fled fled ficci the tho police ov ON O ST lr Y That he also had met mt a little s 's who ho ho sos's answered erd ed the description tion of the th one alluded d to b by Ta born wa-s wa also ato testified to b James another transient sW fa stid ild he m met t the suspect oit the state hll hwa a at Sunset SUns t and that the suspect su told him of has has- haIng ha Ing tak taken n 7 away from another r fellow rello alter after haing hat Ing done dono don him vio violence io- io lenc hence lence Four other transients Clifford n It Kilmer James Jame Cutler Culler Dillas Smith and Divid Funderburg I corroborated testimony alreadY gh gien en to the that they had seen en both the Indian and the little nl lIer around the th campfire camp- camp fire Thursday night and that they I I found Cound the Indian unconscious the next morning The fingerprints of t the th he dead deadman deadman deadman man were wre tak taken n and sent ent to Washington tor for Identification as aa ashe ash he can easily be b traced If It hIs tory story about been In the arm army Is la ue t-ue LIKE COXEl'S O ARMY Coxey's COAry's army In Its historic march to Wi had noth noth- nothIng noth- noth nothing nothing ing on a a band of 67 57 transients rounded up about bout ht by a squid of pollee police officers rs Un- Un Under un under der den the direction of Sergeant C l ii Noble f from om the tho jungles The police decided to round up all transients In the tho yards yard I and river lands In an attempt either to locate or find a a trace ot of Preston's assailant The Th squad Quad of oC police officers officer and detectives consIsting of Sel C 13 r Noble Nole W S Champneys Champney Id Ed Butt Butterfield P J 3 No I L L LNelson Neison W W A Jones Jone J 1 M kina D P I Moore and S P Kim Kim- ball Kirn-ball ball bali pie picked ked up a King fine of 21 men who were lre made to line up sith th their faces to a n a billboard until the had be been n and then marched th them m 0 o os oer er r to an arc light shere vh ro they thy left the tho gang Banff in charge ot of several Be crill officers while hilI the re- re re remainder of the tho squad seal ched further FINDS IT REI CARDS nn An officer who isho walked up and dol dean n by the billboard after the themen themen themen men had been moved found four I W W V Red fled cards cuds which the tile had 1111 1 dropped It tooka took a great deal ot of p persuasion to get getan an any of oC the men to claim cards After the tho gang had been round round- rounded rounded ed 1 lip up tho unkempt cortege eort go was started 1 up the time str street et The men were pre Hied up ii I tl twos toos OR oung and old whites and nil all II shades I b between tw n with Ith Detective I L L Nel Nd- NeI- NeI Nelson Ion son lion acting as right tile file closer cloer and P J 3 NalIn a as I left t file lie clos closer r 1 Two Tao 0 01 oi three of ot the hoboes h had d mouth on which shih struck uP While hll We Were Vere Marching Through Georgia and paraded up u second Twenty second street to Hudon a nue anti and 0 o er er to the police eta eta- sta station tion 1 The tho he f few w pedestrians pedestrian and motor motor- motorIsts motorists lats who happened to be bo on the about 1 o'clock am a m saw sawa sawa a strange procession w wending Its wa toward to the tho police station One spectator remarked The Pled Fled Piper r of ot HAmlIn had nothing on that gang cans Except for their ages aga thy might hn e been taken for the city of ot children led Into the mountainside by the th piper pipi r lne- lne a mouth organ Instead of ofa ofa ofa a reed A AWAY AWiT WAY Occa Occasionally a aV a Weary V ary Willie an extra pair of shoes hoeB and California bundle would dart out of th the line to spear an In exception exception- exceptionally exceptionally all ally tempting t snipe that reposed d dIn In the gutter KUtt r but except e for tor this tho the stayed In line At the police pollee station tation they were lined up In the court room rom From th there re th they y 0 taken to tho cap cap- captains captain tain o office and questioned d Some ha had 1 seen Sen the tho Indians Indian's assailant others had not not but hut roost mot store ero willing to help In lilii bla ill capture At about 4 s 0 o clock morning all but six who had given n outstanding Information were sore ro re- re re I leased relented released Med with orders order to I ret get t out of to town n before Saturday night Murn ADDRESSES Inthe The Th men who silo ho were picked up In the jungles jungle gave lve the names Howard d Blake Blak 21 But But- Buffalo lab falo talo NY N Y W G 0 Cowan 23 Danby ton Mun-ton Vt Dallas Dalla Smith 20 Mun Mun- Mun ton la Ia I D Funderburg Fund West Yest Ne Neada ad lit Bt Ontario Call Calif Ed- Ed Ed Dd Edward ward sard Dale 41 New York Tork George Geore Johnson negro 26 Seattle Chos- Chos Chester tr Chos-tr tor ter Royal noal 37 31 Oklahoma John Murray 44 N New w York Melle Dd Dat- Datter D ter t-ter t ter r If 36 Pitts Pittsburg burg Pa Loul Louis told Nir-told fold Elmo Eimo 26 Pa rank Sherbin 19 1 Wash J 3 A A Vilak Vit k 21 ze Omaha Omah I Ron Ren Sharp Heber City Utah Ulah Loul r SaC or I 31 i Butt Butte Mont Herman Uti Il pencer 21 Oklahoma Joseph Smith 30 SO Tulsa Okia William II K 38 23 3 Cob Colo Harry Mc- Mc McDonald Donald Mc-Donald c Donald Donal l 34 Ic Los Loa s Angeles Ane ard 23 Chicago Thomas Thoma Dole 1010 l 39 Earl 22 Texas Texa Sam Gl 60 10 Louisiana Ray IS 19 Kan Han Kansas SC sas D R P Hall 24 Denver Jon Joe Emilo HoUgh HoUgh- ten ten len Richards 18 IS Idaho F FY FW Y Leiberger r 23 P Ivan ivani 1 red Fred C Wiley 26 2 Prairie N YA Y A l arche tt 21 Austria William Day 19 10 Wash Y Singer Iner 18 1 Salt Lake Frnk Dix Dix- Dixon Dixon Dix on on 20 P Pennsylvania George W 0 ler 28 Ohio John Haber Haber- shon Haber-shon shon hori 23 Penns L n It 27 21 Kan Kansis Cit Mo Ar- Ar Arnold ArnoW Ar Arnold nold noW Karbin 22 l Paul Bass 8 20 ChIcago Jan Murray 3 63 Ireland Jack Jck Mc- Mc Mc Hem 24 H Winnipeg g Man Can Can- Canada Canada ada J 3 E U SO fO Anaconda Mont J 7 King KanA 44 Fort Arthur Mike Milco lull 11 C CArpine 18 ton W V W W 23 los Angeles In addition there wele numerous aliens who isho ho could not speak English |
