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Show MEN CONFESS TO CHARGES OF THEFT Arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of having been implicated in the theft of $S0 from F. Clark, a roomer at the Roy hotel, .lohn Murray, 21 years old, and George Jackson, IS, yesterday 1 confessed to a series of thefts from several sev-eral local apartment houses, and to the theft of an automobile from a Mrs. Anna 1 Hltt of Cheyenne, Wyo. The men were arrested at the Roy hotel by Patrolmen Roy La men and Cliff Patton, who also took Into custody, at the same time, Margaret Mar-garet Pieixe, 23. and F. Clark, 43. The arrests followed the complaint of Clark that he had been robbed of $S0, while drunk. He accused the two men and the woman, according to the officers. of-ficers. All were held, and during a severe cross-examination yesterday it was learned from Murray and Jackson that they had stolen the Cheyenne car. which was later found, badly wrecked. In Parley's Par-ley's canyon. The officers say that Clark's purse, empty, was found in the Pierce woman's room, while a sum amounting approximately to the sum stolen from Clark was found In the pockets of the two men. The sheriff at Cheyenne has been notified, and the men will probably be returned to Wyoming for trial, it is said. |