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Show DETECTIVES ON POLICE FORCE MAKE $ ARREST OF A SUSPECT Man Tken Into Custody Proves to be a Pinkerton Who Had Not Made His Identity Known Was Acting in a Mysterious Mysteri-ous Manner Second Arrest Made During the Day Much Activity in Police Circles Many Wild Rumors Denied Reward Should Be Increased. That the officers of the police department de-partment and the sheriff's office are akrt in the blackmailing case which is now in iheir hards, is evidenced by the fact that every possible clue remote or otherwise, is being Followed and arrests are being made Both Chief of Police W. I Norton and Sheriff Sher-iff T. A. De Vine, together with the detectives on the case, say there will be nu stone left unturned and that they are ready to take a chance wi;h the bandits In any and all circumstances. circumstan-ces. Every suspicious character is carefully watched .Much excitement '.-.as occasioned at about 11 o'c'ock this morning when Detective George Ward law suddenly pounced upon a man standing in front of the Ogden State bank and wrench ed irorn a scabbard under his coat a 45 caliber revolver at the same time informing the stranger that he was under arrest. No sooner had Ward law crabbed the man than Detective L Heiney of the Thlel detective agen ey, uho was standing near, and who had been shadowing with Wardlaw rushed to the scene and aided In the arrest. The fellow was rapidly marched to the police station betweeu the two officers and word went out that one oi the blackmailers had teen caught Excitement prevailed and people soon began gathering at the station to get a glimpse of a real bandit. The large Ecclea automobile was soon at tho Btatlon( where Royal Eccles and tecttves alighted and hurried to the chief's office. A search of the man disclosed that he was a Plnkerton named J W. Cox who had ben working on the black mailing case a number of days without with-out making his Identity known to the local officers. He had no trouble in identifying himself by his card and by telephone communication with Salt Lake. He was then released The detective smiled over the evpnt and remarked that there were som? detectives in Ogden When Wardlaw snatched the revolver from under his eoat. Cox wa6 quite dumbfounded, as he had not realized that he was being trailed. He flret told Officer Ward law not to remove his gun from the scabbard, but Wardlaw had It out and Jn his own pocket before- the words had left i he man's lips. Cox had been unrlof rs a i sliit-inrr nil I ).. , 1 and suspicion pointed toward him last evening. He was watched in all his I movements this morning and the of-j fleers had gone so far as to make preparations to Intercept a letter! whirh he had placed in a mail box on the corner. Immediately follow Ing this arrest the officers apprehenood a stranger. whose name was not disclosed bu: who proved to be an innocent party, j who stated to the police that he was I on hiis way weet to spend a couple of I thousand dollars and that he had had no trouble in getting rid of some oi It in Ogden. He was under the influence influ-ence of liquor. It was rumored 'ast evening that tho Eccles' family had received a telephone tele-phone call from a local hotel from j one of the bfuiaits aud thai tne man was being shadowed with a prospect ! of an ear:y arrest. The officers say that the rumor was not well founded, as noth ng of the knd had been 1 brought to their attention. Sheflff De Vine denies that he has I given an interview in which he at tenu-ied to stato how many persons may be Implicated ir. the blackmailing j scheme, or that there !s a woman mixed up In it. "1 have made no such statement.' the iheriff said today, "and I am no; j pretending to figure out how many pecple may cr may not be Implicated. I Thero may be a half dozen In the deal for all I know. The thing that con- terns Chief Nation and m-seif at th. time is to get hold of a clue that will lead us to some substantial basin of operation." The story that two of the bandits, j one disguised as a woman had been seen ciimbing fencen across the coun- try in the vlcinii ol West Weber j Sunday afternoon, i completely ex ploded by the 8iaicine.ii of officers that tbe parties referred 'o were res. denil o.' thj3 city, cxn tr.d w.fe. wno were cui for a b.Xo, g:!ng as fur a Heesc and riding btcfr cn the train J Their names aro withheld. Deputy , BhertfZi Hobson and Lealhaa behind thezn wKh a Qoro-.; tun: bail for a long dlblr-.s i-l - cLt.c-r-, "y -Ji? cocole acsd t I nulroerf trrcl: nivr.j all :br wa. Tfc '-Quim wrs dressel ia tacrv sil-fi cud ware heavy shots wailz tho mzr had h grer bnajneia sol tzi did no. waik with his bands in his pocket j aa reported. The board of city commissioners j havfc tllfcen Up the conaldara tlon oi the question of otiennj; h r , lex the bandits and Mayou- FelH stated today that he cannot say whei? that will be done. "We feel that the governor has not posted a reward heavy enough." said Mayor Fell today, "and we are not waiting for the governor to offer more money. There should be a reward of 110,000 for the capture of the bandits and I think that sum can be raised If the matter Is taken hold ol in the right way." Sheriff De Vine con'erred with Governor Gov-ernor Spry in Salt Lake yesiorday respecting re-specting a reward and the- governor told htm that under the law he could not offer more then foOO, inasmuch as there is only about ?i000 available Tor the purpose, and he did not care to exhaust the fund. Attorney George Halverson staled today, that the governor under the provisions of the state law. may offer of-fer a reward of $1000 for an escaped prisoner or person accused of a high crime. He stated further that he would dictate a letter to Governor Spry requesting him to post at least $1000 for each of the men Business men of the city will be given an opportunity op-portunity to Join In the request. |