Show PARKs VEN VENd I Ims ms d I y g r I t Alleged Short Line Train Robber Released by the Local Police I T y I All Efforts to Secure a Conies Confes Confession sion From the Man lion Prove Fruitless I IJ r J N Sparks the thc man who was ar arrested arrested 1 rested In Idaho nearly II ea Ih three ee months ago as ono one of or the th three men wio hold up u the line Oregon Short Line pas passenger passenger was given his yester yesterday yesterday ester day lla there being tot sufficient evi evl evidence dence deuce secured to nuke Ji a L Clo him Sparks was aas first charged with forgery for rol forgery rolger gery ger but 1111 this case casu was dropped yes esS e a morning at the preliminary hearing by b request of or County Attorney lenses Jensen I A second warrant charging chargin Sparks with obtaining money mane under f false raIse pretenses os was reid read r ld and an the J i hearing of tho charge set for next Friday titer After the adjournment of oi the municipal court a consultation of the tho two attorneys was held with the com cony complainant complainant and the matter was settled Tho The forgery fOl charge on which Sparks was held In the county jail for more than two months was a rath rth rather er frail affair and ami would Vault probably have hae been dismissed long aso n 0 had hind It 1 not been for the officers of belief that the man tuna was teas connected with tho the train I robbery Letters us sent Sparks by 11 his I wife who iodides re In Brigham were in intercepted intercepted I h by IW tho the authorities and it I Iwas was claimed that contained j Very r incriminating evidence against tho man At the thc lime time of or his an the flue railroad detectives working on the i case felt certain that in the alleged forger they the had the lie tail man i i spoken of or by the passengers who had I been bean robbed J f Every attempt to force a confession front from Sparks failed railed Officers state stale that thai he hp was the most l J I oner one l ever even locked in the count county jail Jill Efforts to Rain gain against a the theman theman theman man hem his hla hl wife wire were just as futile and If Sparks had bad anything to do with the holdup it will probably remain forever locked behind L d his ids frozen lips |