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Show SUPPOSED BDH6LARS - FILLJjlB A IMP Uncle Sanrs Loan Office Aids the Police in Important Capture. " With the co-operation of Uncle Sam's loan office, 30 East First Southstreet, Detective De-tective Howard Wilson and Patrolman George Phillips captured two men believed be-lieved to be burglars Wednesday morning. morn-ing. The suspects, who gave the names of Earl Mitchell and G. F. Loerch, were trying to pawn a gold watch, which was stolen from Henry Fromyer, at the Wellington Well-ington hotel, Tuesday night, when captured. cap-tured. Fromyer reported lo tho police early Wednesday morning that thieves had entered en-tered his room, cut his timepiece out of his pants and carried It olT. He furnished fur-nished a description of the watch and Detective De-tective Wilson and Patrolman Phillips began be-gan an Investigation. They learned at Uncle Sam's pawnshop that two men had offered for sale there a watch answering the " description of Fromyer's, and had said that they would bo back soon when thev left without disposing of the timepiece. time-piece. The officers concealed themselves in the rear of tho place, and when the suspects returned nabbed them. The stolen sto-len watch was found on Mitchell. A sot of burglar tools, including a flash lantern and two Jimmies, also were found on the prisoners. A largo amount of clothing was found In a blanket they car-rlod. car-rlod. Neither will make any statement as to how they came Into possession of the clothing or the stolen timepiece. |