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Show I Goods Stolen From Utah Concerns Sold To Ogden Merchant An Ogden store whs made the clearing clear-ing house of goods stolen in eight stores In various parts of Utah by George Knight, alias Ray Dean, allasi A. V. Smith, arrested on a burglary harge at Alameda. Cal.. and who has ronfeaaed to thefts totalling mgre than I $10,000, according to discoveries made last night b) members, of the sheriff's, and police departments here. The goods are said by the officers to have been sold tto Hen Cohen pro-prietor pro-prietor of a store at 252 Twenty-fifth street and many of the articles have already bren recovered, it was said vim's (.i rODS OlT Cohen said that he purchased the, I goods from a man w hom he believed to be an authorized company salesman and denied all knowledge of having known them to be stolen. He declared 'that he had boxed up a large quantity I I of goods and shipped them to a son-I son-I In-law at Rock Springs. Wo.. and had sent other packages to another son-I son-I In-law at Green River if fleers have I Ordered that the goods be shipped 'back to Ogden and a check made. A lieutenant of detectives from the Oakland, Cal.. police department was 'In Ogden last night together with ai representative of the J C. Pcnny stores, from which the goods were stolen. With members of th sheriff's department they went to Cohen's store where much of the alleged stolen ar-! tides were identified. The gooda Iwere taken from the s'.ore and placed I In the sheriff's office. No charge has as yet been against 'Cohen and no action will be taken the I of fleers said, until the boxed goods, arc returned here from Wyoming and :i check made to determined whether I any articles are missing Action w-lll( then depend upon the results of the check, it was eaidi 1DM1TS i? IBB1 RJJGS Knight, when arrested In California according to dispatches which reached in-re (iiihj , not on! admitted robbing eight L'tah stores but Is also said to I have admitted selling $.'000 worth of Liberty bonds in Fun Francisco, lead- ing the authorities to believe that he Is responsible for the robbery of three l'tah banks the Woods Cross bank the Iehl bank and the Uvjton bank !at spring, when more than $10.0on worth of Liberty bolndl were obtained besides much cash The stores rol'bed hv Knight. i-cordlng i-cordlng to his admissions include four J. C Penny establishments one at Salt I -a We, one at Provo. one at American Fork and another at Spanish Span-ish Fork Knight also admits having robbed the Ashton Jewelry ior at Provo. at which time he and a companion com-panion obtained $3". 000 worth of diamonds, dia-monds, watches and other jewelry. Knight boasts, it is said, that he has robbed Penny stores in l'tah. Wyoming Wyom-ing Nevada. California, and other western states to the extent of $70,000. BntrencO to the stores which were all built alike, was effected through sk-light. sk-light. In nearlv everj Instance. Since the bank robberies In the spring and the store robberies late last winter, sheriffs and police officers of Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo, cooperating cooper-ating with the Burns Detective agency, have been persistently trailing Knight. TWO o I III Kv III I l) Upon his arr-st In Alameda, in company com-pany with Kdward Uwner and William-Brock, who are believed to be implicated im-plicated with him in his series of huge robberies, l'tah authorities immediate-lv immediate-lv attempted to obtain custody of Knight on the represent.it ion that his crimes in this state were of greater importance than the burglary charge upon which he was arrested. Knight states that he Is 20 year of age and that he has already spent eight years of his life in prison Negotiations Ne-gotiations are being carried on between be-tween the Utah authorities and those of the California town with a view-to view-to returning him to this state for trial. Knight and his companions traveled in an automobile. From the Penn) stores they took large quantities of men's and women's clothing, which it is believed they transported to other states. |