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Show IS ABRESTEO -FOR ILLIW HOOT Cromar Catches Id-ihoan With .115 Pounds of Speckled Beauties. Stato Fish and Gamo Commissioner Cromar set a mantrap last summer for illegal fish: peddlers, but not until Wednesday did any one step upon tho spring plate. Tho lawtrap clamped lta victim around the neck and with ono big twist landed him In tho county Jail, The Ushman registered as J. Z. Qulzey from Idaho Lake. After registering at the counts- jail Qulzey presented Ciomar with 115 pounds of tho prettiest mountain trout seen for a long timo in this city. Cromar says lift will sell the lish and placo tho receipts In tho state flsh fund. Qulzey has gotten In bad. lie caught th trout through the lco In Idaho lake, It Is alleged, and shipped them to this city consigned to tho Vienna cafe. Tho Idaho fir.h and gamo laws prohibit tho catching of trout In streams or lalces frozen over, and also prohibits tho shipping ship-ping of this gamo Ush out of tho state. Qulsoy will have to answer to Idaho for thlsi Ho la held here for having in Ills possession moro than fifteen pounds oi , flsh, and also for soiling tho fish to deal-i deal-i ors. Under tho Utah laws, Qulzey Is liable, li-able, to a minimum lino of 25. or 5300 maximum, or both a lino and a Jail sentence. sen-tence. Cromnr says he" will give tho visitor vis-itor the benefit of the law, and whllo Cromar dislikes to detain him at the county jail, ho says ho has no other placo and ho wants to keep Quixey off the trout strea.ms foftho good of tho public at present. The trout were shipped over tho Short T.ino to this city as baggage, In a trunk. Croniar was laying for tho trunk, and spot i the same at tho Short Line depot. de-pot. Ho put on a Pinkerton disguise, and, aftfir hanglnj? around awhile, Qulzey put in his appearance with an expressman, express-man, loaded the trunk on a wagon, and started for the business district. Cromar hailed a. cab and followed the express rig, which stopped In front of the Vienna cafe, whero the trunk was unloaded. Cromar Cro-mar got out of the cab just below First South In order to avoid suspicion, and slowly walked down the street until tho deal was made for the salo of tho fish. Then Cromar politely stopped In. took off his disguise, and Qulzey looked for a coal hole on tho sidewalk to drop into, but he wa3 In tho firm grasp of tho law and could not escape. Cromar says that he has been cognizant of the sale of mountain trout for some time, but up to the present time has been unable to bag tho game. |