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Show DICE GRAFTERS IN THE CITY PRISON Detectives Arrest Him While Engaged in Robbing a Gullible Gul-lible Victim. William Wood, a nogro, and Ed. Whito, a whito man. wore arrested Tuesday night by Detectives Shannon and Wilson and charged with gambling. According to the dotcctives, they wcro found in the acL of robbing u "suckor," whose name is unknown, at tho Carnation snloon.ou South Temple, between "West Tomplc and First West streets. Crooked dioo were used in the work of separating tho victim from his short change, and tho detoctives watched tho operation for some timo before they made the arrest. Having assured themselves that tho victim had no chance on earth with tho work ho. was up against, thoy mndo tho arrest and took tho two sure-thingors to headquarters. head-quarters. Both wero locked up. At 1.1 o'clock a white woman, who said she was tho wife of the negro, appeared ap-peared and put up $50 for her ''husband's" ''hus-band's" release. Whito spent tho night in jail. Tho negro, Wood, was for a number of years employed at tho Cullou hotel. For the last two months, how-over, how-over, he has been a porter at tho Grand Pacific hotel, near tho Short Line.dopot. ire lives with his whito wife at 250 South Third West stroct. White, of whom little is known, has been living at the Empire rooming-house, at tho cornor of South Temple and First West streots. |