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Show AHERN LEAVES FOR OGDEN. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 2S Chief of Police Ahem, of this city, left this afternoon for Ogdeu to bring back ( Mrs, A. Blackword and her husband, who robbed W. E. Gerber, president of the California -National bank, of Jewelry and furs valued at $0,000. Blackword has confessed that his wife hired out as a servant to the Gerbers, used her position to obtain knowledgo of Ihe family valuables and then stole systematically for two weeks, finally taking a diamond necklace valued at $1,000, and escaped Jn the night, Tho pair have operated in this manner throughout the West, particularly In Denver and Seattle, and a few months ago disported themselves In San Francisco with an automobile and an imported bulldog. Trace of the pair was obtained through a trunk stored with a local express man, and In which the woman wom-an placed the goods as she stole them. This trunk was found with tho woman, wom-an, at Ogden. oo |