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Show 1 SPARKS AND THE TRAIN HOLDUPS Man in Jail -Talks With His Wife and Then Becomes Silent Wife Believes He Can Tell All About the Robbery of ? the Oregon Short Line Train. tt Das been decided hy Detective Pender that another complaint will be filed against J. W. Sparks, the man returned from Pocatello tho other day under the charge of forgery. The second sec-ond complaint will charge Sparks with obtaining money under false pretenses. pre-tenses. It is claimed that he issued a check to Sanford Harrop of Five Points and represented to him that It would be- paid by the bank. The amount of the check was SI 7. The officers say that Sparks Is a very clever fellow and that they are i at a loss to know how to handle him. They desire to gvt definle informa- Hon from Sparks regarding the holdup hold-up of the Oregon Short Line train. ! June 27. but that Is one of the subjects sub-jects that tho man evades with much cleverness. At times he leads the officers of-ficers to believe that lie Is about to divulge di-vulge all the secrets of that event and then, in the twinkling of an eye,, he closes up like a clam. Mrs Sparks was here yesterday evening and had a long conversation with her husband. The officers be-'lleve be-'lleve that she advised him to tell all he knows about the robliery, but her talk seemed to havo no effect on the man. for he had less to say about the train robbery after talking with her than before. Sparks has made the proposition to the officers that If they will withdraw all the complaints they have prepared prepar-ed against him, he will tell them everything about Ihe train robbery, but he will not say a thing about the matter until it Is shown to him that there are no forgery or faJse pretense charges against him. The officers cannot enter Into any such ar-reement. find it has been do-I do-I termi'jed that prosecutions for forgery I and ohtalnlng money under false pre- tenses shall be Instituted. I Mrs. Sparks says she Is satisfied that her husband had nothing to do I with the bold up but that he knows the guilty parties. She hn6 advised j him to tell the whole story and get 1 the reward that Is offered for the robbers. rob-bers. Tills money, she tells her husband, hus-band, would aid them materially in the ordinary affairs of life and enable . Incur to move to some other country where they could begin life anew. The-appeal, however, according to the officers, seems to have no effect on the man and he has evidently set his mind against divulging the secret. Mrs. Sparks Is now living In Salt Lake. ! |
