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Show I S. P. EMPLOYES CONFESS FRAUD I 1 1 o o . I 'robber tells i DETECTIVE HOW HE OPERATED Hold Up of Ogden Canyon Santarium Cleared Up By-Complete By-Complete Confession TAKES ENTIRE BLAME Prisoner Says He Was Desperate Des-perate and Emboldened By Liquor It. E Btahr, of Grand Junction ar-j ar-j rested within a few hours after holding hold-ing up Jesse Rockefeller, proprlc-tor ' of the figiien Canyon sanitarium and forcing Rose I-aviile, a French girl, to rifle the cash register of S42.40. confessed con-fessed to Chief of Detectives Robert Rurk Saturday to having committed the crime. lie did no implicate either the girl or J. W Allen, the taxlcab driver, both of whom, however, are being held by the police for further Investigation Investi-gation According to the confession made by Stahr. he met the girl early In the evening but did not say anything to her about visiting the sanitarium The story of the girl coincides with the confession in that detail. Chief of Detectives De-tectives Uurk said last night. GOES TO SANITARH M . Stahr said that he and the girl were taken to the sanitarium by Allen about 12 o clock and that he told Allen to return for them about 2 o'clock, after which, he said. Allen returned to town According to stahr be telephoned Allen shortl) before 2 o'clock and told him to hring some sandwiches along and to come and gel him and the i:nl As soon as Allen arrived, Stahr Bold he followed him out of the sanitarium sani-tarium and told him to start the engine, en-gine, and then returned with him to the office of the sanitarium, pulled out a revoler. covered Rockefeller and commanded him to open the cash register M IKES GIRL KELP. When Rockefeller refused. Stahr said that he commanded the girl to open the register, first dlroctlng her to get tho keys out of Rockefeller's pocket. He said that at first she refused re-fused to do so, after which he slapped slap-ped her face. She then opened ihe t ush register and in placing the mon- on the counter Mpllled some of the smaller coins on the floor, alter whli h he again slapped hei and ordered In : to pick up the money. He admitted that Allen helped the girl pick up the money after which be took a pocket h nlie from Allen a pockets pock-ets and proceeded to cut the telephone wires. He said that ho. Alien and the girl then left the resort BLAMES His DRINKING Asked why he hud committed the crime he answered that he had been drinking and was desperate. SUihr w;! halted two miles north ' cf Hec k's Hot .springs, while being driven toward Salt Lake in ihe taxl- cab by Allen They were i ire. ted by DeteQtlVCS Rosencrantz and Mad sen of the Salt Lake police department and returned to Ogden. The girl had left the car when It reached Ogden and was arrested Inter by Detectives C E- Lolser and E. J. McKeon. NOT OGDEN ST AH R. J. W Stahr. an engineer in tho em-j em-j ploy of the Ogden Union Railway & I Depot company, said he had been em-! em-! ba rras d because of the fact that the bandit gave the police the name of Stahr and told them ho was a fireman. fire-man. Stahr said he wanted his friends I to know he doesn t go robbing In his ! hours off duty. |