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Show M CHARGE" OFKIM Two Men Accused of Stealing Steal-ing Auto Suspected of Looting Store. Complaints charging first -degree burglary bur-glary we in file 1 vtstcrd y in Frovo against Robert R. Gregory. 2-1 year oi a?e, and J. A. Chapman, 21 years of age, now bald in tho Salt La he comity ja.il on charges of Jarcony. R. C. Willey, adjuster ad-juster for tho Aetna Insurance company, and E. L. Kearney, deputy sheriff of Salt .l-i ke county, returned yesterday to Salt Lake from Prove, wh'Te they nivi-s-tuated the roobery of the T. K. Tiuirman Mercantile store, on the Spiit.gue.-d road, at brovo, with v inc.il t!ic two men arc cnargc-d. According to Mr. Wikey, the burglary occurred on the night of December 1", between 12 and Z o eiuck in tho morning, while Gregory, Mrs. Lucile Van der J lan-sen lan-sen Gregory, his 17-year-oid wife, of three weeks, and Chapman, were on route from Salt Lake to California in it Chandler chummy roadster automobile, stolen from Lorin W. Wlutmore, a banker of Xcplu, early the same night, in Salt Lake. Suspicion that a store had been robbed by tiie trio while on tho road from Salt l.ako to Xephi was first aroused when Mr. Willey and Mr. Kearney returned tho trio to Salt Lake on December 13, two days after their urreat at Xephi by Sheriff J. P. Christ'enscn of Xephi. Some candy, tobacco, cheese and bread were on the floor of the stolen machine. Impiiries by the two officers brought a reply from tho two men that the goods had been, purchased by them before leaving Salt Lake. Because, on the same nigut the Thurman store was reported burglarized, the goods found in the machine were compared com-pared with that stolen, and, accord ing to the description given by Mr. Wiiley last night, t hey were identical. Pleading guilty of petty larceny to the theft of the Whitmore automobile, Chapman Chap-man was sentenced to serve sixty days in jail yesterday by Judgo Henry C. Lund of the city court. Gregory pleaded not guilty to a charge of grand larceny, and waiving a preliminary hearing, was bound over to the Third district court for trial. The Whitmore automobile was stolen from in front cf tho Urplieum theater, where the machine had been parked by the owner. The two men and woman drove directly towards California through Provo, arriving there a few hours aft er leaving Salt Lake. They then continued their trip to Xephi. At Xephi tho mother of Mr. Whitmore, who had been informed by her son of his loss, noticed' the machine being driven through the streets of the town, and- notified no-tified the sheriff's office. A pursuit was commenced, and the thrco occupants of the car were arrested a few miles out of Xephi, where they had stopped the machine ma-chine to make repairs. They then were brought to Salt Lake, where Mrs. Gregory was held in the county jail for several days, as also were her husband and Chapman. The woman was at length released to go to her mother in Oakland, Calif. She told the authorities her father owned a homestead near Winnemucca. New, and that she had been there until recently. Before coming to Salt Lake she said she had Cooked at the Ellison Buffalo ranclr, near her father's homestead. According to Mr. Willey, warrants charging Chapman with first-degree burglary bur-glary will be served on him immediately following his release from the county jail at the expiration of his sixty-day sentence. |