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Show I Police Relics Viewed kW )WWN WWV VVUNM rWVWt tV'VONA "Chamber of Honors'9 v-ws-s rvw.'S vvvvM v" ovni .svnnsn Some Many Years Old (BL HARRY BAGLEY.) Volumes of horror, bloodshed and vice, covering a hlBtory of violent and H , desperate deeds committed in and near i Ogden for more than a score of. years, could be poured in tho ears of listen-ers, listen-ers, If relics in the "chamber of hor-rors" hor-rors" at the Ogden police station had but voices. 1 The chamber is an ancient bookcase of the type seen in county homes a number of years ago. Glass doors pro-tect pro-tect the gruesome articles on shelves within. Several shotguns in a coni-partment coni-partment on one side of the case are visible, while an ancient saber and sev-eral sev-eral modern rifles are on the opposite But, within the case proper proba-1 proba-1 bly the most gruesome relics are the razors and even pocketknivcs which desperate men and women, in other years, have used to release themselves from this mortal sphere. A common 1 steel wire, innocent looking, which I stretches its length across one of the shelves, was used by a criminal at the jail as a hangman's noose. "Saps" Ready Made. Rocks and heavy weights, carefully wrapped and skillfully knotted in old rags or handkerchiefs, bear evidence ' 'tthat their owners, desperate enough to 1 wield such a weapon against a fellow I man, have met the ends of justice to some degree. I ' A picture of a white woman and her I ' Japanese husband decorates one of the I lower shelves. Below the 'picture is I several empty cartridge cases. On the I back of the picture of the woman is ! i ! the legend "B M , shot five : I times by her husband who then killed ; himself." The woman, who survived 1 1 1 her wounds, now lives in California, i Pathos surrounds some of the relics. ' A small caliber rifle, a gun of tho type that brings joy to the heart of a small boy, is of the most pathetic object ob-ject taken into tho station. A notation on the rifle shows that Walter Butler, i' 1 while with playmates, had not joy, 'but : I death brought to him through the I small rifle, a bullet through accidental ! i discharge, pierced the boy's bosom. Opium pipes, removed from hazy Chinamen, negroes and even white men who had so de-: de-: generated as to find contentment content-ment in the poppy produced dreams, repose In the case, mute evidence of I depths to which mortals can sink. ; A linen collar, found last summer i J immediately before a series of mystO' K t rious, costly fires, lies in the cabinet challenging the solution of its mystery. It Is no uncommon sight to sco officers offi-cers gazing at this bit of starched cloth and then speculate as to who wore It, and to what extent they were connected connect-ed with the wavo of incendiarism. Guns, jimmies, keys of peculiar shapes, Chinese playing cards of queer design and color, knives, stilettoes.huge chunks of rock used in past assaults, and other relics show that not all the "big ones" got away. Wooden Key. One of tho most peculiar relics at the station is a wooden key of enor-mouso enor-mouso size, whittled by an occupant of the city jail and removed from his person after he had succeeded in opening open-ing his cell door with the Improvised key. A top-liko gambling device, bearing bear-ing numbers similar to dice, on which players had 12 chances to 1 of winning, lies in the case. A shotgun, sawed to about fifteen inches in length and with the stock whittled to form a pistol butt, represents repre-sents the most dangerous weapon ever taken by tho police. The pistol was taken from a Greek, who claimed he was carrying it for self-protection. The weapons that the police accredit with second honors in visciousnoss, are three iron bars, nearly two Inches thick, fifteen inches lone, and terrain-1 ating in square heads of iron about four Inches thick. These bars, wrapped in newspapers, were used in an assault against two Albanians about a year ago. The money belt of the victims, who narrowly escaped death, hangs near the bars in the case. Shoots the Aces. Another object that never fails to elicit interest is a gambling device used to "shoot" nces from the sleeves of glaniblers. The device consists of a telescopic brass frame which was attached at-tached to the gamblor's arm. As his arm bent, the apparatus was extended just beyond his cuff so that a selection of needed cards was little trouble. The police say that the gambler upon whom this device was found, was rapidly growing wealthy until five aces were discovered in a deck one evening, and a search of all players resulted. After they had carried the man to the police station and treated his bruises, they removed the fateful apparatus. The latest addition to the cabinet of curios is a large, poker-like Iron which was used recently by burglars who forced entrance to the home of Mrs. Fred Clark of this city. |