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Show I Police Gain Information On Dead Bandit's Partner I Pt SUM ROBBER 1 IDBiit Clues Found That Help in Scnrch foi Robber Who Obtained Diamonds THIRD PFRSM tfY HAVE I A KEN PAH I Scores Crowd to Mornue to M Get View of Man Shot I by Jeweler jHI Belief that iho m.m who escsprc H with spproxlmntoly $5000 worth of din- "fOPR mondn after hl.s accomplice wn shot n.J killed Saturday nlfht b S. th i: H ThomuH. when the bnndits held him up H In htn store at Twenty-fifth street and BBBBBBBBBBS r.ranl nvmne wn Dell P Alkms. a, P criminal who escaped from the Suit H Lake county Jail rccc ntl wan Hh strengthened today by clues found by 9 the 1 Descriptions of the mi.n with H Rausch. the dead bandit, fit that of H Atkins and it lr known that the two H men have been associated for several Hi years in various crimes. Other clues H which will no bo mado pubik have lod B the officers to b convinced thai At B kins Is the man they wont. POSSIBLY THIRD BANDIT B It g ulco pop; Ible that a third ban- H dlt also took a part in the "getaway" H of Atkins following the rebfcery. A f. w fH minutes after the shooting occurred, a MH answering the description of At- ' kins was said to have been s-n rvn tyMTf -rtmt- rii corner of Twos b street and Lincoln avenue, where he Jumped into irafllng automobile and WH Was whi.ked aw.iy If thil man Whff EtfflH Aiklnn, it In declared certain that a H third man took part in tho robbery H Tho name man who is Haid to have jutnpvd Into tbe waiting uutomobile BH WSJ also seen a tew miners before, In BBBBBBBBB IIOU. Ol lliv i iM'ijs nuir. n . mis H tine, B man and his wife whose names r were no! made publi . tafV7 " rwenty- H o as talking loudly to another. Tho couple declared their attention WM fl particularly called to the men. for the H reason thai they were compelled to H w.lk betwi-t n ilirm ar Hi y were tnik H log on the sidewalk. The man and hi.i wlfo retorted Dial H they walked weat to Lincoln avenue I : turned north. ' tho) n H comer of Lincoln avenue anu Twenty- HH fourth sir. i t. they said that a man ran H toward tho waiting automobile and HI . H w ' n northi rn Ur n. V: lU CIRCUMSTANCES STRONG. tA The Limi U ken t i it rHH bery and for the man who escaiied to ffffl ; i t to tho waiting automobile would HflH 00 approximately the pirai time l( HH would take person to wr.lk tho dis- H tanoe covered b ihe oojiplo, it is be- lioved The belief that the rol tt r who HH escaped waj the man who climbed mto the waiting car. Is strength! ned. VfH both from description! ;mJ the direc- MH tlon in which i b- ere -pinq bendit ran IjB ftttef his pal was shot chief of Detective! Robert nurk th t B moininK announced that the dead rob- H ber has bet n Id) ntlfled as John Philip IBj Rausch. un habitual criminal and a HhH "ian wltn mi,n'j al';10" I'ndcr the name of Frank Gordon ho was lent to H tbe :tate penitentiary from Ofticil for H grand lareen) in December, 1908. He Pl was sentenced to serve seven yenis RH At that time he Rave htfl occupation B as a painter and derlnred his home B was in Ohio. The records show he H wta diacharged from the prison April HH ANOTHER CONVICTION. H Under the name of Joaeph Harris H he was convicted of burglary In Utah H county. October 18, 1916. and given an Indeterminate sentence in the stat? ri prisin. He was paroled in IMS. HlB The criminal records show that un- der the name of Jfimen Gordon the man served a prison term In Canada H several vears ago. Much information of the criminal ca-reer ca-reer of Atklna has also been brought H i(. upbt by the police, including his . cape from the Salt Lak- county Jail H recently, vhrre he was belne held on a H charge of burRlnry and the theft of n automobile. The two men. and also a third which tho police are trying to ronnit with Rausch and Atklnr are known as tho ui ist desperate men who have operated In the western country, for uj.niy yers. Many robberies and i her crimes have been traced to them. ,:-h of Rausch it Is be "1 'hat the ring li3S been broken COAT WAS STOLEN B ' 1,1 rt Hess, signal inalntalner fori 'i cson Short Line railroad a,t HH ..illurd. yvnerdav Identified the mack- f naw worn by Rausch at th time of I i 1 1 , icatb aa the coat which waa atolen Ij j nis tool houf on the nlfht ( ( nntlniWNl on Pogr Two.) Slain Robber Identified as Old Criminal i ontlnned Prom Page One.) j November 19. Tools and g.isollne also were stolen ;ii Hk- itm-. he declared The belief that the man who made his escape With the Jewelry was Dell i 1" .Atkins, who csc.iped recently from I the 8alt Iaek county Jail, was addl-tlona1l addl-tlona1l strengthened today when Ft. Ih Hodgr. superintendent of 'lie foundry foun-dry of the gden iron Works company declared that two men, answering mln-I mln-I utely the description of Kausch and Atkins appeared in his office Saturday Satur-day and .'iKk-fl for work. He Identified the body of Rausch this morning, as l one of the men. lie aaifl they asked gruffly If there ; were any helpers' Jobs or,fn and when he told them there were no openings I at present, they aked him for money, statins: the. were "broke." Mr Hod-re asserted the men ifid not appear to be very anxious in regard to obtaining work hut indicated they were more in- terested in obtaining a loan of money. He declared that men of this type frequently fre-quently en hunting Johs. not with the Idea of working, but if they an- offered offer-ed a Job they auk for a loan of money in advance, stating they will return and the inonry can he taken from thel; pay. ThSy seldom return, however, how-ever, he ,ald. DESCRIPTION rAUJES Mr Hodge said thut (he appearance and the attitude of the two men was inch thai he entertained no thought of hiring them later and did not take their names When he told them he Would give them no money, they left, the "fflo- v. iihout another word, he declartd Mr llodee described the man believed be-lieved to be Atkins, as about 5 feet 11 Inches in height, sandy complexion and iikIm h.iii and wearing a grayish coloAd suit of clothes This answers the description of thp man who enter ed the Thomas stoii with Ituusch and made his escape with the Jewelry, drawn to morgue More than 1500 persons, most of I llivm drawn by eurloMlty, visited the Klrkendall parlors yesterday and viewed view-ed the body of the dead bandit It developed by a closer examination examina-tion of Rausch's body that he was rhot twice by Thomas. In speaking of the two bhut.M which took effect in the man's body, Thomas said that "hen i he second robber took the box of rln:s from him Kausch leaned over to catch a tint- from falling on the floor, and as he did so he withdrew the gun slightly from covering Thomas The minute the gun was lowered low-ered Thomai gut.bed'a .38 Colt's and rired u.t Rausch When the bullet hit Kausi h in the lower right shoulder, should-er, he Staggered and started to reel, and as he did so the second bullet struck him in the lower part of his left side The Identification of the dead robber rob-ber hs Rausch W.L partly established Saturday night when the old bullet woiinds in the ,-alf of his left leg and a car across the shin were found Since Itausch had been released from the penitentiary he had had an eagle and bhh ld tattooed on his left forearm. Ttie. tattoo looks as though it had been yu- on me mt.n s arm within the last I no woeks ONE KING RECXN ESRED With the exception of one chip diamond dia-mond ring and a few stones said to have been picked up In Electric alley yesterday by searchers none of the stolen Jewelry has been recoverd Late Saturday night a Mexican Who gave hts name as Pedro Rodrlques, was ar-rested ar-rested while trying to sell a ring In a store on Twenty-fifth street, in reply to questioning the man declared he had picked up the ring from th0 side-walR side-walR following the robbery. The ring wag of small value Rodrlques u;.m arrested by Lctfctlve tfoble and Bul-terfleld Bul-terfleld and held In Jail on an cpon charge Several small atones which were picked up In the allev yesterdav were tcrnod over to the police and "efforts will be mads to have them Identified b) Mr. Thomas oo |