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Show DI110ID THIEVES BEIIHiCED SALT LAKE, Sept. 7. It Is only a matter of hours, the police say, when Gladys Whitney, alias Stewart, the girl who Is supposed to have relieved J. B. Dlehl of over $10,000 worth of diamonds, In a room at the Mctropole hotel last week, will be under arrest. When this occurs the departments says the mystery as to the whereabouts where-abouts of Walter Terry will be boIv-ed. boIv-ed. It Is now known that Clara Whitney, Whit-ney, the suspected girl's sister, and Virginia Wallace, who were released after the affair was pulled orf. left on a train Sunday night with tlckot3 for Pocatello. When they arrived there they wers met by a third woman wo-man who answers the description of Gladys, and the trio proceeded on their Journey north All the time, and in fare from the moment until they left tbe city Jail they were shadowed shad-owed by a force of Plnkortons. These men are on the trail of the girls now. The reason an arrest has not been made sooner la because the detectives want to capture tho entire gng at ono time, and thus minimize tho chances of lorlng the stones. Coached by Perry. It Is now known that the affair was all "framed" up, Walter Perry, the police maintain, knew that Dlehl had the diamonds before the Whitney girl did. He had been coachlnr her in other acts of a criminal nature, and had been successful in helping her pull off several "touches" around the all-night resorts that never came to light. In all cases traveling men were j the victims. Perry has a penitentiary penitentia-ry record and had only a short time I since been released from the penitentiary peniten-tiary at Canyon City, Colorado. Perry Got Scared. That the thought of a "touch" of $10,000 was even for him something extraordinary. Is shown by the fact that tho police know that when tho Wrltney girl first handed him the diamonds at the Mitropolo and he left, he later returned and told hep to put them back In Dlehl's clothes. A friend whom ho met on the corner near at the time savs that he said, "I'd like to make the haul, but I'm afraid of the 'Kid,'" (mennlnc Gladys Whitney) "pnd I think I'll have to tuko them back." This same man Is authority for tho statement that Perry did go back to the room and tell th Whitney girl he "had celd feet " and there Is probability prob-ability that she chlded him for want of nerve for he shortly after secured the automobile that bore them away, and the girl mado her daring escape down the fire escape. j |