| OCR Text |
Show CLEVEB GANG CAUGHT BY POLICE SALT LAKE OFFICERS CAPTURE SIX BAD MEN. Msde Use of a Train and a Light Engine En-gine In Chasing the Fleeing Thugs. Salt Lake, Jan. 27. One of the cleverest clev-erest gangs of high waymen which has ever operated In Zion. was rounded up by the police Tuesday night in the north yards, just this side of Beck's hot springs, and It Is considered one of the most important captures which has been made here in many months. Six men constituted the baud, and it Is generally considered, in police circles, cir-cles, that they are tho ones who have been committing all of the holdups, robberies and burglaries In this city during the past several weeks. In fact it is not known but what members of the gang are responsible for the robbery' of tho safe at the Davis Shoe, company's store last Sunday morning. Unusual grit and determination to land the robbers behind the bars of the city jail was shown on the part or the various members of the police force, and Tatrolmen Harris and Lyons are deserving of special mention, tor it was these two that landed the two most desperate members of the gang and also underwent the greater risk of life in to doing. When additional hold-ups were learned of at the polico station, another an-other band of officers was dispatched which met the first band at tho Oregon Ore-gon Short Line depot yards. Supposing Suppos-ing the highwaymen had made their way north up the Short Line tracks, the police mounted Short Line freight train No. 27, bound for Ogden, and various officers dropped off at different differ-ent points along the road until, when the train came to a standstill at tho switch just this side of Beck's Hot springs. Patrolmen Harris and Lyons were tho only ones left on. They dismounted dis-mounted at this point and in a few minutes Patrolman Harris saw a man approaching. He thought this was one of tho highwamen and immediately got ready for him. As he approached, presumably to take the train for the Junction city, Harris pulled a gun on him and ordered him to throw up his hands. This he did. and Harris proceeded to search him when the officer of-ficer was approached from the rear by a third man, who aimed a pistol at him and was about to flre when Patrolman Pa-trolman Lyons camo from around the engine and ordered tho man to drop the gun. Lyons then searched him and the two men were handcuffed together. to-gether. Had Patrolman Lyons been a second later it would have meant Harris' Har-ris' death. Patrolmen Harris and Lyons then marched their victims up the track, where they met two more of the gang, but these were unarmed and were captured cap-tured with very little trouble. About this time tho switch engine, manned by S. M. Bell, foreman of tho train crew; Mose Garside, engineer, and O. P. Munce, fireman, overhauled the freight train carrying a number of other oth-er officers, among whom were Detective Detec-tive .Tanney and Patrolmen Clough, Johnson and Bretz, who had already captured two other members of the gang. Tho six were then brought back .to the depot by the switch engine, where they were met by tho patrol van and brought to the police station. At the station they gave the names of Frank Leland, Ike Goldberg, Chas. Weekland, J. M. Caulrield, T. L Stone and Frank Rogers. The two first named were : the ring-leaders of the gang and tho two first captured. captur-ed. On their persons was found the gold watch which was taken trom Frank Steiffel the preceding night and the scarf pin secured from Joseph Straka. On the person of Charles Weekland was found a ,38-caliber Colt's automatic revolver and a belt containing about fifty cartridges. Money Mon-ey was also found on the persons of tho men to the amount of about $25. One man had $19 in his possession, but the others had only a few cents each. The men ranged in age from 23 to 45 years. |
