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Show , ALLEGED SUGAR I TRAFFIC BARED JsTwo Arrested in Salt Lake ! Charged With Stealing . Sweet Product Sj SALT LAKE, May 20. S.- A. I I Thomas, alllas Hills a brakeman an'd i F, Branner, a licensed expressman. Ji5-16 California street were arrested j nt First South and "West Temple Streets at an early ' hour yesterday S morplns aftre an exciting chase J through the business and residential ! districts ot the city. The men are I charged with stealing 300 sacks of 1 sugar from the warehouse and freight 5 cars along the Ore m line. (Chief Deputy Sheriff W. E. Schoppe in charge of the posse, with Floyd T. i Jackson of the department of justice, 5 Chief Criminal Deputy V. A. Christof-I Christof-I ferson, and Deputy Sheriff Waller, Barnes, Hughes, Turnball Mathews b and Gassidy, took Into custody Thom-j Thom-j as Bunner, a brakeman, and R., Jj. : 'White, 50 X. First West street, nald k j by the deputy sheriff to be an outlaw J ; switchman, ; j Information had been furnished the )i sheriff's department here that acut rateb usiness in sugar was being done J I by a gang of thieves operating on the j Orem line, tho D. & R. G. and tho , Oregon Snort Line, and yesterday tho ) posse that made the arrest was on the j lookout for members of the gang when they saw a light delivery truck . driven by Brunner with Thomas sit-i sit-i ting on the seat beside him Brun-I Brun-I ncr noticing the occupants of a high , powered automobile at Ninth South i street became suspicious and started speeding, and tho deputies in tho automobile au-tomobile gave chase and mado tho capture. The truck contained, thirty sacks of sugar. Other railroad employes supposed to be members of tho gang will probably prob-ably be arrested today. oo |