Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-14 | Page 24 | Arrests Follow Thefts of Food

iRlESTS FOLLOW : THEFISDF FOOD Two Restaurant Owners Held, Charged With Re-I Re-I ceiving Stolen Goods. I I AV (ietvs, 30 years tr a', pn)ne- tor of the Salt Lake cat'e. oo'.i West Seef.ud .Smith street, and James Tri''as, ! o years of ae, alias Jim Strains, ino-1 ino-1 prietur ot" the Superior eat'e, 1-; 1-; South State street, vei' arrestedyes-terjay arrestedyes-terjay ai'i eriun.n by D.-WH'tives L. 1.. Lai-sen and L'lift fatten on warrants issued from the enmity attorney's or-5 or-5 t'ii'e eharin them wiih receiving i siulea jron.-ri.v. the' are bejti heui I at l he eouiu v .jail. 'Ii..'ir arrest joilowed llie allotted eon-fessioa eon-fessioa ot hrnest Palmer, It' years ol aye, arrested by i'eleciives i'ailen unci Laisen for lh(. alleged burglary of tlie .National Tea coai-auy, -f, west r'irst South smot. Paluu-r, repeatedly ijues-uoued ijues-uoued icy the deteetrves eoneerninc; his operations while employed as a delivery deliv-ery truck driver by tlie tea eoinpau.v, broke down ami beiwivn soles told how he had robbed his employers of provisions pro-visions that he miejit sell them to the two (.-reek restaurant owners. I'almer, it is alleged, told the do-teetivey do-teetivey that while making deliveries of spiee and extraets to the restaurants he was upproaehed about six months auo by the proprietors who, he said, suucested that he ''bring down some sonar and make a little money on the side." lie told the police that several days after he was approached he delivered de-livered some Koods to both restaunints that had not been recorded as sold at tlie tea company's office. From then on he continued the practieo of ''throwing some coffee''' into the wagon. Palmer told the police he was aided in his work Icy several other eniploytces of the company. Vhe! he was discharged dis-charged from the company's employment employ-ment several weeks ago he returned, it is alleged, a few nights afterward with two companions. They entered the building and took some alcohol locked in Ihe extract room. When one of his companions returned the next night with another man they were ar-lested ar-lested in the building and their confession con-fession led to the arrest of Palmer and Albert McAllister, 17 years of age. According to Detectives Larson and Patten, one of the restaurant owners under arrest admitted to them that only recently he had purchased twenty-two cases of tomatoes at $2 per ease, which is- several dollars below the wholesale price, from a man who brought them by the truck load from Ogden. How far such a market extends the police declare they will endeavor to find out and a campaign to exterminate exter-minate provision thieving by employees of stores and others has been started. Of the four youths arrested in connection con-nection with tiie robbery of the National Na-tional Tea company, the McAllister boy has been released to the juvenile court. The three others, Ernest Palmer, Rh-fus Rh-fus Weigert, alias Evans, and John Jones, alias Sehoenfield, are held in the city jail pending the filing of complaints.