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Show Children Arrested for Shoplifting Bljys of Nine and Eleven Confess to Haviug- Stolen From Several Sev-eral Storc3. Two youthful -shoplifters were tuken into cats tody yesterday afternoon by tho po-llbc-e. Clarcnco Henderson, aged 9, and (scallo Grccves, ascd 11, aro tho young-rters young-rters under nrrost. They are charged with having puriolncxl goods from threo or four Rlfferent business) houses In this city. Tho boys were arrestcd at their homes by Officer Charles Sperry and at the station i j.ade a clean breast of their misdoings. ' 'Because we wanted the things," is tho . iiilv reason given by the lads for committing commit-ting tho theftf. The boys' operations have extended over .1 period of nearly three weeks, during which time they visited the Held Rngrav-Ing Rngrav-Ing company. Schramm's drug store and the I 'tah hardware store At Hold's the I., j s stole about two dozen gold rlnes, at Schramm's they secured a number of hand mirrors, while at the Utah hardware O.T.- they carried off a number of pocket-knives Officer Sperry has been at work on the case for several days nnd yesterday secured se-cured enough evidence to warrant the ar-W ar-W si of the youngsters. They were found .it lln-lr homcN mar Center street and were liken to police headquarters where they confess -.1 to the tin ftS The youngsters were allowed to return h.-ni" upon promising to appear in court this afternoon for trial. |