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Show COLE CONFESSES HOLD UP OF MESSENGER M'KEH John T, Cole, a carpenter, was taken ta-ken from Ogden to Salt Lake City yesterday afternoon by Detectives G. E. Cleveland and C C. Carstenseu The Salt Lake detectives claimed to have Information which led (hem to believe thai Cole had been acquaint ed with Otto Applequist and Joseph Hellstrom prior to the murder of John G. Morrison., the Salt Lake grocer gro-cer and his son, Arling Morrison Cole was thoroughly questioned, but I proved that he did not know either Hellstrom oi Applequist. The officers allege that Cole confessed con-fessed to holding up John McKenna, a Western Union messenger boy, in Ogden. on the night of December 10, 1913. Regarding this affair, Cole said that he knew that McKenna was df-i df-i liverlng some morphine or cocaine to Dr. N. D. Estes at 2468 Washington avenue, and being desperate for the want of the drug he and some other men held up McKenna. They took four eicht-ounce bottles of morphine, three eight-ounce bottles of cocaine and 20 cent-- from the messenger boy. Cole did not Baj who his accomplices accom-plices were, but the police went out and got Lester Houghton, a railway fireman, and brought him to the station sta-tion Houghton Is said to have admitted ad-mitted that, as far as he knew, Cole's confession was true. He was with cole on tne nignr ot uecemoei J, and knew that he was desperate for morphine. While he was with Cole, he borrowed a revolver for him fr-") the Pullman Bar. He said that ho had met him lat'.-r in the night and that he told him that he haa "turned the trick" and showed him seeral bottles of morphine and cocaine. Cole was brought back to Ogden this mornlne by Sergeant Mohlman and is being held for investigation. The dru.s that Cole is alleged to have taken from McKenna were valued val-ued at $110. In connection with tno case, the Ogden officers are endeav oiing to locate a "hop' Joint J. T Cole is the man who was a! leged to have been implicated writ J Kuhn, in the theft of a lap robe, which was taken from the buggy ot M Berrett on September 14. 1913. He was tried on November 1, and acquitted. |