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Show mxmi auto is 88! KB LOCATED Man Who Took It Said 1o Allege That Owner Owes Him. i The Pierce-Arrow automobile, valued at $-1200, the proper! ' of E. S. Sherman of Bui I c., which Mr. Shcrmau alleges was stolen by ,'loscph Ua3'cs, who had formcrl3" been his chauffeur, Thursday afternoon from in front of the Scott hardware store, is still missing, but is supposed fo be on tho road .somewhere betwoonSaIt Lake and San Francisco. . Tho matter was placed in the hands of tho police Thursda3" afternoon, but tho3' failed to locate Hayes. Frida3' morning a man who gave flic name of. F. W. Ilongcn, .1100 North 'Second West street, called at tho Automobile ohangc in Market street and said that a car answering I he description of the missing auto was in a gulcli east of Beck's J lot Springs, but that he would not show the police just where it was until he was given $5. I To was told that ho would iet $5 when he disclosed the whereabouts of tho machine. Uo was then escorfed to tho vicinilr of tho Hot. Springs in tho pafrol wagon ly Lieut. Uoinpol, but the machine was gone. It had evidently been left there for J ho night ly Hayes, who continued his journey westward Fridn- morning. A. T. Williams, manager "of the Automobile Auto-mobile Exchange, s.'vs that. Ilav-es told him that lr. Sherman owed him 11101103", aud had given him a bill of sale for the machine in Butte some time ago. Haves, it is said, brought, the machine to Salt-Lake Salt-Lake from Butte, and used it for a time. . Jt also i understood that Haves has taken the machine at other times since Mr. Sherman arrived in the cy. |