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Show IDENTITY OF HOLD UP GANG IS AT LAST ESTABLISHED Fitzgerald Is None Other Than the "Combination Kid" of the Nat Reiss Carnival Company at the Four County Fair Last Fall Gang Broke Into a Car Con!a ning Liquor and Candy and Had a Great Time Coming Over the Cut-Off The- real Identity of the six desperadoes despera-does now In the custody or the police Is being gradually established-. Although Al-though they have one and all confessed con-fessed to portions of Uie crimes charged charg-ed against thorn and four have .admitted .ad-mitted that they are ox-convlcts, their real names and former occupations have not been learned. The first to be recognized of the six, was tho one who gave his name as Fitzgerald, but who Is none other than "Combination Kid." the popular "booky" with tho Nat Kless Carnival company which played a week's engagement en-gagement at the. Four-County fair last fall. -"Combination Kid" was much li ovldence during the races and many of the load sports followed his tips on tho races, more or less to their subsequent sorrow. He was formerly a "candy butcher" with the Sells-Kioto shows and has followed the circus business for a numb'er of years, being known at one tlmo as "Kid Glove Pete," tho gentlemanly Shetland pony chariot driver with Lemon Brothers' circus, and later with Barnum & Bailey In tho tourof Euvopp. Fitzgerald admitted to the' police this morning that he was present at the holdup of B. G. Morehart, the Montello fireman, and thai ho held tho overcoats of two persons, "to him unknown." while the attack upon Morehart was made. He did this voluntarily vol-untarily when It was made known to him that two Innocent men are. air-ready air-ready charged with the crime and are confined at tho Montello Jail. Morehart arrived in Ogdrn this morning with Constable R. .1. Davidson David-son of Montello, and, as soon as ho laid eyes on tho men held here, he recognized them a,i the ones who had attacked him. Morehart' s face is badly bad-ly discolored and ho has a slight wound on the back of his left car as well as a scratch on lhc cheek. His countonanco appears as If it had been battered with a club although the victim vic-tim states that he remembers but one blow. Martin, the man suspected of having assaulted Jilra, inquired what Morehart remembered of the occur ence, and. when told, denied that any club or instrument other than, a good, hard flst had been used In the Job. "Slim" Joseph would not admit any connection with the holaup, and It 18 thought now that Martin and another made the attack while Fitzgerald waited wait-ed for them near the Bpot as a lookout look-out and to hold their overcoats. ' The men told Constable Davidson this morning that wblle he wad searching search-ing them In the sandhouse, the watch, which ho was unable to tlnd upon them, was neatly concealed in the sand above his head. "Slim" was evidently the banker or the gang as he pawned tho watch in Ogden for $10 and had some $25 on his person when heached at the station. sta-tion. The officers suggested that the prisoners pris-oners return Morehart his watch, whereupon "Slim" asked his companions com-panions If they had any money. They replied that they had none, and "Slim " I then stated that he would furnish the I necessary $11 with which to redeem 1 the watch and signed a check for that pmount against the sum credited to him upon the Jail books. It now develops that the men not I only stole the glovew and shoes while 1 coming across the lake In a freight c.ar, but also broke open several boxes of wine and candy with which they refreshed re-freshed themselves uutll their arrival in Ogden. Affidavits will be signed by the men today which will probaoly result in the release of the suspects now held at Montello. Three of them also signified sig-nified their willingness to plead guilty to burglary in the third degree. Detective Pender made a plain statement to them to the effect that if they desired to fight the case, they were welcome to do sa, giving them to understand, however, that the charge would be in the second degrco which might land them in the penitentiary peni-tentiary for a long term. If they would plead guilty In the tnird degree, however, how-ever, and thus save the state the expense ex-pense of a trial, lhc opportunity would be given them. |