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Show I S CLUB Arrested Youths Reveal Secrets ! of Organized Theft ) to Officers. H PURCHASER OF STOLEN ' I METAL RECEIVES FINE I Plan Was to Purlion Brass From Yards of Railroad Companies. Hj Special to The Tribune. Hl OGDEN, Sept. 6. Four youns boys, ranting Hl In ago from 13 to IS years, wero taken be- PPH foro Juvcntlo Judica Patton today and wero H ecob, of them committed to tho reform school. PPM but, because of tho nttenilnnt circumstances, PPPJ Acntnnco In each of tho cases tvnn sunpended- PPPj Tho bays wero takon Into custody by Sprcl.il Officers 'William Sullivan of the Southern Pa- PPHI olllc and Joseph Jones of the Orocon Short 1 Lino, and tho opeclal complaint was that PPH , ihey had bsen stealing brass nnd othar nictalu PPPJ from thn railroads nnd had ben dlsposlnc of PPn It to William Penrco, who runn a foundry PPP 1 i nnd nmchlno hop at 2651 Wa.shlncton avenue. Boys Accuso Pearce. Hj Tho boys were open In their confession to tho PPH officers and later to Judrco Pntton, In whose PpHI presence they wero confronted by William PPPJ Pearce, who hrul been placed under arrest. PPP In splto of tho efforts of the latter to confuso PpH them In their testimony, the four little fellows PPB detailed how they had always had a market PpH with Pearce for their stealing Theeo had H amounted, from the four boys, to GJQ pounds of p braes, for which Pearce had paid from B to C PpB cnts rrt.r poapil. 1 Stolen Brass Is Pound. Hl Tho two officers named visited tho foundrv PpH of Penrcs lodn end found there. In addition PpHj to numerous enr broracs, witnc switch chains PPH with the O. S. I,, mump on them nnd a back strap for main rod that had been stolen In the Offdcn yarde from a San Pedro .engine with H brasneH In It. but the browses wero' removed at P the time of the recovery- 'Vt tho hearlnE Pearce admitted that ho had bought brasses from the children, nnd nt j l's conclusion Judgo Patton flnod Pearce $2o nnd sentenced each of tho boys to tho State. H Industrial school. Sentenco was, however, sus- 1 ponded, tho Judge believing tin boys wero j not the criminals, but had been led Into the depredations. This was a reasonable view. Some of tho boys were deeply affected by 1 their predicament and made promises of 1 future good behavior. 1 Their story ns related to tho Judge nnd of- fleers indicates that p. "Union club" has ex-for ex-for somo time, though none of tho four j taken In today were members of It. This club, 'hey say. Is known among the petty thieves ns the "Dross club," and Its organisation nnd purpose wns for the stealing and salo of brass. j They said tho reason they wen- not members wok becnueo tho omccrs of the club would bent the members If they refused to go out nnd purloin brass nnd other mettils when told t. and when the location or the same wns Given them. "Fence" Is in Jail. Dave Brooks, whom the boys designate ns the buying nnd selling agent of the "club," now serving a twenty-five dnys' sentenco on tho rock pile for selling brass nnd copper, j and the boys related to Judge Patton today how they had sold him brass nt C cents per round nnd he had sold It nt G and 7. The boys f.:ive tho nnmcs of tho president, vlce-prcsl-'rnt nnd secretary of tho "I'nlon club." known to them as the "Dross club." wlmn It wns j found that the three nro boys recently com- nMtted or recommitted to the reform school. I'eurce testified In his own behalf that he hnl never bought brows with a railroad brand on It |