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Show ALLEGED COLORED THIEVES. The Police Unearth a Cache and Arrest Well-Known Character. ! Officers Seigfus and Wilson mads a very important discovery late yesterday afternoon while assisting Captain Donovan in his successful suc-cessful search for the thieves who robbed the tailor shops of Greeuberg and Spry. In ' a shack in ths center of the square Bounded by Second and Third West and Second and Third South streets, they found a large quantity of stolen property, consisting of wearing apparel and jewelry. As everything indicated that the goods were contraband the occupant of the shack, William Knox, a colored man, was arrested, and his roommate, room-mate, Ben Edwards, a waiter at the Knuts-ford, Knuts-ford, placed under surveillance. It is known that in the morning Knox shipped two trunks, presumably filled with stolen goods, to a well-known colored cyprian in Ogden, and instructions were sent to Marshal Metcalfe Met-calfe to arrest whosoever called at ths express ex-press office for them. The property recovered is valued at $1000 or over, and the capture is deemed by Chief Paul to be the most important made during his incumbency of tho office of chief of police. po-lice. ' 1 B. N. Wood, another degenerate is6n of Africa, was lodged in jail oh suspicion of being be-ing an accomplice of Knox, dome of the stolen property is known to fcave passed through his hands, and the poliee are in possession pos-session of information which jfhey I believe will lead to the arrest of other tolored men, the impression being that the slack fwaa tho -eachs of an organized gang of 1 lie. |