Show PRELIMINARY IS BEGUN TODAY OGDEN June Tun 16 The The preliminary I hearing of Henry Kuntz extradited from Boise Ida d on n a charge h of burglary ar al alleged at- at t to have v b been r committed r in Ogden last c ct month was begun bif before p Police n Judge Murphy r Ph yesterday Est Kuntz z after leaving the th city was wal at Portland Port Fort land where the Jewelry taken from th th- BIgelow residence was found on his Imla per per- son Before time the local loal officers were notified not not- noti noti- fled fied fed of his Imis hil arrest the time Boise authorities had him brought to that city on a charge of burglary The evidence being Insufficient to hold him the local officers were werf wired to obtain requisition papers and come for the m man n. n Detective James Pender went to Boise and returned with wih Kuntz The Jewelry which was stolen from tIme the residence of Mr Ir was wal Identified b by the time owner and other members of his hil family when called to the witness stand today Sheriff James Jamea A. A Bennett Bennet of ot Dots Bois was sworn and testified to the arrest at Portland and the subsequent return of Kuntz to tn Boise before he was finally landed land land- ed e In the pall pail pal here Kuntz explained his possession of the jewelry which is tim II valued valued at by declaring that h he had purchased purchased pur pun chased It I from a man in Salt Lake for 3 The TIme prisoner who ho is of German extraction extraction extrac extra tion was voluble b I In his explanation t of the transaction as c and d the h description es f of t time the mysterious stranger from whom he said he bought the time Jewelry Mrs Brown of the Vale Valley house hOUM of Salt Sal Lake testified that Kuntz stopped at the hostelry the evening of March 13 John Van der the former manager of the hotel also Identified the prisoner as the man who was given a room at the tIme hotel hotel Detective James F. F Pender told of conflicting statements statemEnts made bv by Kuntz regarding his stay In Ogden The prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner 1 i 10 about 50 BO years vears VEarl of ago and Is apparently ap op- ap- ap parEnt possessed of an unusual amount of shrewdnEss shrewdness Judging from the ready him replies which he makes to questions asked Time The hearing was continued until other witnesses can be produced |