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Show RUNAWAY BOYS I" CAUGHT AT OGDEN Brothers Appropriate Eicycle and Later Sell It for Eight Dollars. With their bubbling ambition to peddle potatoes and onions blasted to smithereens, smither-eens, Ben and Dan Loudon, brothers, IS and IT years of age. respectively, last night were weeping profusely over the ruins of their wrecked hopes In the boys' wiid at the city jail, alter making a reluctant re-luctant return journev from OgVien in the custody of Police Officers J. E. Woodard and S. J. Thomas. T'ne London brothers, who live at 1277 Arapahoe avenue, had only one mcycle between them and vcrv little cash, when they decided to bit the trail for Ogden iast Saturday, and immediately invade the street-hawking fringe of the vegetable vege-table market, and the first problem to wedge itself between reality and ambition ambi-tion was the question of how to secure another wheel. This obstacle, according to the police, was conveniently disposed of by the appropriation of an idle bicycle bi-cycle carelessly left on the street by its owner. Monday the older brother sold the stolen wheel for $8, as the first 6tepi toward securing funds for the purchase of a horse and buggy and other indispensable indis-pensable equipment for the costermon-gering costermon-gering business, but the step proved fatal, for it led to the barred coop behind the Ogden police station. The boys told the police they thought they would have had enough money for their purpose if they had succeeded in selling the other bicycle also. They are charged with petty larceny. |