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Show I Five Arc Taken Into Custody i TIi rough Smooth "Work of Ddedives. TWO OF THE NUMBER ' MAKE A CONFESSION , Result Will Be Release of Two Innocent Men Held in Nevada. I Special to Tho Tribune, OGDEN, Mnrcb 10. By :i clever )icco of cletcctivo work, six burplats, hold-up men and box-car thioves wore rounded up ionijrhl and placed behind the bars of tho city jail bv Chief Do-, leclive J. F. Pender, Chief of Policu Browning and Patrolman Bob Burke. The men cave rhoir names at the station sta-tion as .John JEartin. George Fitzcerald, Frank Williamson. Felix Weaver, Francis Fran-cis Joseph and Harry Joseph. After being put 'through the third degree. Williamson and Felix Joseph, the two youngest of the gangs mado confession, implicating Lho other men in a series of crimes, which began at Montello. Nov.. last Saturday night, when two railroad men were held up and robbed of their watches and a largo sum of money. According to the confessions of the two men. Weaver and the two Joseph bovs broke into a Southern Paeitic I freight car at Monlollo Sunday night and stole a quantity of gloves and shoes. Men Arc Held Up. i On Saturday night the same three men held up wo railroad men aud robbed them of their .valuables. A large portion of t he plunder, including the articles stolen from the. freight far and ihose taken from tho railroad , men, has been recovered in local pawn shops. The six nion came to Ogdcn on Monday. Monday night, by breaking break-ing open a 1 ransom of the II. F. Upp ,icwelry srorc on Washington avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third Twenty-third streets, a number of articles were stolen, including opera glasses, fountain liens, pockotknives aud cheap, .iowelry. The officers made a round of the pawnshops pawn-shops today and found some of this pluuder. The men were finally nrfestcd by following this clew. Two were found in a gambling house, two in tho fit. Louis saloon, and the other two in their rooms on lower Twenty-fifth street. Martin. Fitzgerald and Williamson will bo held here on the charge of burglarizing bur-glarizing the Upp jewelry store and tho other three will be returned to Elko, Nov., to stand trial for car breaking and highway robbery. Two innocent nip.i are now under arrest in Elko, suspected sus-pected of breaking into the box car and the highway robbery. Local of titers ti-ters say that three of the gang arc Jormer convicts. |