Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-28 | Page 7 | Tucker Admits He's Tough Guy'

UC9C Tni!P'i PIIV9 ML u lullbH bill Waives Preliminary; Says He Is Wanted for Postoffice Robbery Cal Tucker, who Is alleged to hav'e j , entered the Sullivan Drug company j at 2600 Washington avenue, the Mod- , ', ern Market and the Cheesman Auto f U company, waived prelmlnary hearing y, : this morning before Judge D. R. Ro- jj bcrls and was bound over to the dis- 'v5, 3 trlct court. Ball was fixed at 5500. ' e i lie Is charged with second degree I burglary. -O Tucker, when interviewed by a ro-S ro-S ' porter, claimed to be a fugitive from V " j justice, stating that while a student 8 at high school, he became Intoxicated m J,' and, with an older companion, "tipped i 1 over u P- o. box," (a postoffice safe.) f, Ho 'said that he was captured and maintained that he was IS years old. J-Io was given from three to five years in tho penitentiary, he claims, but while being taken to tho Institution. t leaped from a train and broko his wrist. Ho said that ho had been successful , In eluding his pursuers and that since 1' then his neither been home nor has corresponded with his parents, t , Tucker expressed regret at not hav- r ing shot Offleor Stevens and said that ! tho night desk sergeant, and tho ar- t t resting officers would bo'made to pay for the trouble they had caused him. ! t lie Intimated that ho had been mixed I up In several crimes and had been successful in eluding capturo until the B' 1 present time. . mj ft "When I get through here, I'm It going to Mexico where they can't serve I oxtradltion papers," ho said. I , I j Tucker said that he would like to ' I f- return to his old home and get away jf -rJp' from his present life. I 'W'1" Ho claimed that ho served In the TgA ' quartermaster's corps for five months. Clarence Oswnld, ago H. of Lara-j' Lara-j' mle Wyoming, who was arrested In HH compahy with Tucker, will, be turned H over to the juvenile authorities, Cap- tain Robert Burk stated