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Show BANDIT SUSPECT HELD ON COAST D. P. Atkins. Suspected of Complicity in Thomas Diamond Dia-mond Robbery, Arrested Dell r. Atkins wanted fot breaking I Jail In Salt Lake, on the night of November No-vember 1. and nlso sought suspected of I being the seeond man in the robbery of the Seth Thomas jewelry Ktore in I (jgden, November 27, in whjeh Phillip ! Ttausch, one of the bandits was shot ami killed. I,v Mr. Thomas, was arrester arrest-er yesterday In i?'an l-'rancisco 1 llen-r;. llen-r;. Taggart, former rieut' warden of the the Utah stale prison arid later captain of the Salt Lake police force, now with the United States secret service ser-vice and detailed in the coast city. Atkins, while strolling along the street of San r'rancisco, came under the eves of Mr. Taggart and was rec-Ognised, rec-Ognised, The forme;- prison official j recalled Ills being an inmate of the; prison and also a report of his beinj wanted in Salt like Me took Atkins in custody and telegraphed an inquiry I to the Salt Lake police. The answer went promptly back requesting the1 man be held BRKAKS .1 Vii.. tn the night of November 1. Atkins escaped from the Salt Lake countj jail with A. 'I' Lmerson. after the two ban BaWed through a Steel cell wall and a; loci, bolt and dug a hole through the outer brick wall of the Jail, Police of-ri. of-ri. era believe that he isothe scon.! man in tin- y.u' ii jciweiry store roo-! roo-! bery, who escaped with $r.ooo worth of 1 jewelry after itausch was killed by, j Thomas. Atkins wa'fl a prisoner in (he slate prison when Mr. 'I'aggart as deputy , warden At the time he was serving : a term of eight years imposed In 1 ' 1 1 for robbery. Subsequent to his com -' ' mitment he participated In to attempted attempt-ed prison break and five years was I added to his time. His sentence waa , terminated, however, bj the stale i board of pur-dons in 1916. . At the time of his escape from the I county jail AtKluS was awaiting hear-1 I ing mi j, charge of grand larceny for' I the alleged theft of an automobile be- longing to Oeorge Lewis, A. T Enier - 1 son, his companion in the escape was being held on ,, forgerv charge. The men used a l:ac;aw to cut their; WSJ' through the rear wall of the Steel' ceil into which they had contrived to get themselves locked together, the, hole thus act OlppUshed giving into the 1 passage back ui and between the op-PQSlte op-PQSlte rows of cells The saw was used again upon the bolt of the loc"k upon ' the door of rhls passac and bars of I Iron e-awed from the cell col served fot prying out the brieks of the outer jail wall. A curtain of bedding at the front 01" the cell from which they escaped es-caped served to muffle the noises of! their work from the nitrht Jailer. Etausch, wsp Was killed ;n the ;.-den ;.-den holdup, was in the state prlRon when Atkins wax there. Mr. Thom.i- hen shown a photograph of Atkins., expressed the opinion that it was a ' picture of the second man of t.he pair who eommiUeij Die rohherv. In any event, Atkins is due to com -back here on a charge of jail breaking, break-ing, if not to be charged with parti-! clpatlon In the igrlen robbery all be-' ! ..-.vl- urtw i- u mm iiiin tin rasu;,! vision range of the man who was ; deputy warden nt the atate prison ; when he was a prisoner there. CAN llLTir BANDIT. I "If Atkins was the man who took j the diamonds, there will b no oues-! oues-! tlon of my Identifying him " Mr Thomas said today. "He wa.s less than I three feet from me Just across the I counter -and I saw more of him than i I lid of Itausch. who held the door open for his confederate. If this man ' arrested In Saa FVanClsco, is the chap I tv'.ii recognize him the minute I Bee ' nlm." I Mr. Thomas .took occasion to criticize criti-cize i lie r lethods Of paroling stat prisoners. pris-oners. FYoni figures which ho had obtained in prison statis.tlcs Atkins w ho was sentenced to the penlte,tiai". ! in 1911, first for eight years, and again I ton five .ears more when he attempt I ed to escape, would still be scrvm his ;'-nren,,. rKi havo a moro ars ir the pardoning board hod not seen fit to place him on pan.:!..-. Mr. Thom-I Thom-I as said. Ratiach wa. also an ex-convict. Mr I Thomas sairl. Another former ( on v let i was sent t0 Mr. Thomas, he s;ii,J u-th the request that Mr. Thomas give him a clearance," l the diamond robbery. rob-bery. "I learned that this fellow was a friend of Kausoh and In fact Rausch's sweetheart had shown this man some of the diamonds, remarking that 'these Ins life for He virtually admitted are a few of the things Rauach gave this Needless to say he did not get I the clearance.'-1 -OO |
