Hide Article Text (OCR)
OFFICERS UNABLE nod the police lore# **yTO LOCATE MONEYample time to have hidden the moneytaken out vaultrlt;M?» isome place other than his placeresidence. Joaee and Lane are be.agkept »tparted, located in differentparts of the jail and being*if:tthe court house and concealed it under some hoards, wheTTSn ituntil I gave it to Jim Jones about 12 clock of the same day. After concealing the money in the at Lie I wentout in front of the oourt house, andioned individually, the storychecked against the other. Officersfrom the sheriffs department andiIJim Jozies happened to be coming by in his car, and I stopped him. Ii iI** Ii*iiitmmie§»i1 smmMt8Sradex00s,yithfdnManLhR*►ryeudetakelt;j him if he would get me some tobacco, and h« said he would and drove up town, got the tobacco and came back and gave it to me.4,I then asked him, 'Will you do me a favor?’ He said, *Sure, what isit?* T said, *l hav* moneyand I want you to hide it for me.’ Hs said, ‘All right.’ He asked me where I got it, and I said, I got it down in the assessor s safe.**T then told him to come back and we would make arrangementsfor the final disposition of the money. He did not come back again that day, nor on the neat day. So on Monday, June ft, I delivered some coal, in a county truck, at the direction of Dave Taylor, and while doing so X went and saw Jim Jones at the Home Cabin camp where he lived in one of the cabins. X told him that thesheriff had found my fingerprints on the vault door, and that 1 waa leaving, anlt;j I wanted the money.He said, Well, it will not b* a good idea to give it all to you, because if you are caught you will be out all of that money, take just a fewdollars to eat on, and when you getfar enough away, write to me, and I will send it to you.'“I said. ‘All right,’ and he gave me five dollars, and I left. I then drove the truck over near the Presbyterian church, where I taw a Packard sedanstanding in front of the church, and got into this sedan and drove to Pocatello, where I was arrested, andtaken to the city jail.“Sheriff Meppen, Deputy Sheriff Tillman and Prosecuting Attoreny Mackenzie brought me back to Idaho Fails I make this statement for the purpose of clearing up the matter of the theft of the money from the assessors office, and to remove suspicion from the assessor and his office force, and from Dave Taylor.“LARRY LANE.** Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of June, 1933.W, D. HUFF AKER Probate Judge, Bonneville County, Idaho. Witnesses:A. C. CARLSON HARRY MEPPENJones Silent.Jones maintained a stolid silence in the jail, except to deny that anypart of the Lane statement is true when questioned.The sheriff, his deputies and members of the police force are still looking for the hidden money. The Jones place of residence has been searched m has the surrounding sections. Men from the sheriffs officethe polks fores both express the b«-CUcldJtllief that Jones got the money from Lane and has it hidden.Sheriff Meppen in discussing the matter stated Wednesday morningthat he desired to give Chief Oarl-son credit for helping In the work.11x0 sheriff asked the commissionersJacJaCl*the privilege of calling in help,a preference for ChiefexpressingCarlson.*Tfce chief,** stated the sheriff-“worked with us, offering valuable suggestions and assistance which helped clear up the crime and fasten the responsibility. The police of Pocatello gave us great help la arresting and holding lame as the latter was trying to make his get away in the stolen oar, W’e laid a trap inorder to get the information needed.We had the fingerprint* photographed on the office door and the vault door and let the news spread among the trusties that all were to have their prints checked with the photographs which caused Lane to make the break giving us the opportunity we needed Percy Moral!, the prison trusty who worker with Lane in cleaning the court house and the assessor soffice Sunday morning signed a statement which is substantially thatwhich was published in The Post-Register Tuesday Moral! told officers he saw Lane hand a candy box td Jim Jones and told Lane, that “he was a fool to tryand pul! something which would gethim in trouble.”Cdtiwiiolwa01tlt;I*n03IISiolI ClI tlitm I pI ®tl
Newspaper Details
Idaho Falls Post Register
Idaho Falls, Idaho, US
Wed, Jun 07, 1933
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
TX, USA 16 Jan 2023
Other Publications Near Idaho Falls, Idaho
Idaho Falls Post Register
