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Show "TOO MUCH MONEY" CAUSKJOWWFALL Self confessed Burglar Tells Court Striking Story of Checkered Career Special o The Tr bune OGDEN Aug 5 A serting t at s parents sent hin more money than he rea y needed wh e attend ng col ege Stephen R Ta ntor confessed burg ar and h gtrnayman tod Judge J A Howell to day that he be eved hs downfal was due to the fact that h s re at ves ne e too good to him He was sentenced by t e court to serve air indeter n nate term I the state pr son To the officers and the court Tain or confessed to 1 o robbers of t e Proudf t Bee aftr and B owning B othe s sporting goods sto es a d a so to the 1 oldup of a st eet car last spr ng In the latter cime he &a d he carr ed a revo ver but that the weapon was unloaded as well as broke and that he cou d not have f red a shot In a I hs c mes Ta ntor de cared it lad neve been hs intent on to take 1 uman 1 fe even f forced to g ve 1 mse f up The joung man Tas arrested and cha ged t the robbe es of the three stores when he attempted to se an au tomatic re olver taken from t e Becraft store He was arra gned today on a com plaint charging the theft of seve al revo vers and o her artic es from the store on August i of th s year The otner crimes to wh ch he has confessed were not in eluded The brief history of the man b life as re ated by himself in court was wr tten in o the court record and wi 1 be for warded to the s ate board of pardons , He said 1 e was a graduate of a Wiscons n I h gh school had attended the Un vers ty of Wisconsin and also a theo ogical school of the Congregational fa th It was dur ; ng his co ege career he declared, that j h s parents supp ed him plentifully with ! money Af er f rst coming west Taintor said he j worked o tl e ra lroad and was d s charged as a strike sympath zer when the shopn en went out Hav ng been ma ed & nee com ng west 1 e was left w thout work and forced to a e for h s w fe i Later a chi d was born H s f rst crime i was committed on December 23 1813 he : told the court in order to obta n money for the ho days From then on he sa d he went from bad to worse Ta ntor s young w fe who is g ief j str cken as a resu t of her husband s con i viction was in the courtroom today Sne j be ieves that he lias learned a severe les ; son and wi I lead a better life if given another chance Taintor s nee h s arrest '. has aided the off cers n every way i restoring stolen property to r ghtful j owners |