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Show CONFESSES HE IS ONE OFHOLDUPS Salt Lake, March 25. "I wonder how long I will have to' serve in prison, pris-on, and will I be able to get a job railroading again whon I get out?" Such was the troubled query yesterday yes-terday of Pierre Parrish, 20 years of age, a brakeman on the Salt Lake Route, now in the city jail on a charge of robbery. He has confessed to having taken part with a companion compan-ion iu the robbery of a Mt Olivet street car on the night of March 18. A telegram from Denver last nigln told of the arrest- there of A. L. Hardin, alleged to be tho other inan in the holdup. The arrest resulted from information furnished by Parrish Par-rish According to the police, the other man has a criminal record, and Parrish is believed to have been drawn into the affair by him Parrish told of meeting him first ou a trip cast a year ago. and again at the Oregon Short Line depot on Marcu 15, three days before the holdup. The man posed as a railroad man, according ac-cording to Parrish, and showed credentials cre-dentials which Parrish now says were stolen. According to the telegram tele-gram from the Denver police, Hara-In Hara-In will come back without the formality formal-ity of extradition. Parrish was arrested yesterday morning while yet in bed at his place of residence in the home of a private priv-ate family. He was tracel by means of a laundry mark in a handkerchief which he had prepared to use as a mask and carried with him on the night of the holdup. The handkerchief, handker-chief, together with that of his companion, com-panion, was found in a vacant lot east of Thirteenth East, on First South street, near where the holdups hold-ups left the street car after robbiug Conductor A. A. Chadwick and Mo-torman Mo-torman C.'C Knox. Together witn other clothing discarded by the pair, the handkerchiefs were taken td police po-lice headquarters. Thero they were examined by Detectives George E. Cleveland and C. C. Carstenscn. The detectives discovered that the laundry laun-dry mark had been cut out of the corners of both. I?ut in one was an old mark, faded but discernible, which had been overlooked until it caught the eye of the detective. Then began the building of the circumstantial cir-cumstantial chain that was to fasten the crime upon the youth who had not the effrontery to deny his guilt whon he was faced by the officers. As he did their bidding and arose from his bed to dross a revolver was found under his pillow. It was no longer the weapon of a bold, bad robber, rob-ber, but another bit of evidence In the undoing of a folly-led youth. "I guess it's true," said Parrish when told last night how his identity had been discovered. "I read It somewhere that no crime is ever committed com-mitted but that there is left a clue that can be made to betray the man who committed it." Parrish said that his home town is in the state of Indiana, and that he came of a respected family. He came west in 1909, he. said, and had been railroading a year. Before that he did some electrical work, and before be-fore that was a high school student. He looks little more now. |