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Show TRIO SUSPECTED OE ! OGDEN HIP HELD Arrested at St. George With Car Said to Belong to Robbed Chauffeur. Tnetr story of a honeymoon being dtc-cre: dtc-cre: ted by long c" 'stance telephone, Mr. and .Mrs. Jack Davidson and Fred Davidson David-son are under arrest in St. George as be-in be-in tne trio suspected of having robbed James Houghton, a colored taxicab driver oi Salt Lake, at Ogden last Thurs-Umv Thurs-Umv nicnt. Ill"1 urder for t'.iefr arrest was given by t-herl.f John S. Corless to the sheriff of asmugt on county after the long distance dis-tance telephone communication, had vicmcu up evidence that the automobile in vn:eh the three traveled jntwcrtd the descriution of Houghton's car. The three claim Denver as their home, according to tiie report to Sheriff Corless over t Lie telephone, saying that the men are brothers and tho woman the wife uf tne one calling himself Jack. The tour tii rough the country they explained was Lv wav of a honeymoon for t.ie married brotner and wife. Report of the appearance of the car at St. ueorge came as a result of telegrams sent nut by Deputy Sheriff William M. Hugncs under the instructions of Sheriff Sher-iff ("orless. The local officers were disposed dis-posed to beheve the story of Houghton, wiio has been a taxicab driver for fifteen vears in this cltv and is regarded as dependable. de-pendable. The report from St. George vestrday whs that the number of . the engine of the car, a Monroe, had been battered off. The license number was given as 10,-77, which belongs to a Ford car owned bv U. L. Halterman of Pax-owan, Pax-owan, according to Deputy Hughes. It is believed that the number was stolen in the flight southward in effort to disguise ; the stolen car. i Houghton's story is to the effect that he was held up, bound and robbed, afterward after-ward being l'cft. on the ground with his 1 overcoat thrown over him at a point near the Ogden Country club. The robbery, rob-bery, he said, was committed by two men, whom, with a woman, he had driven to this place, the men explaining they wanted to stop In a secluded place to drink some liquor they had in a suit case. Houghton said that between H o'clock at night and 0 o'clock the next morning he succeeded in working his feet loose. He crawled a mile on hands and knees, and then walked to a farm house where a man cut his hands free. Going back after his hat and coat, according tp his story, he found a tramp who said he was ' in the vicinity the night before and saw j something of what was going on. The negro chauffeur says that $130 in money was taken from him by the holdups, who had revolvers with which the forced him to put up his hands before binding him. According to his story, they promised to leave the car at a certain point in Ogden but he failed to find it there. The two men and the woman under an- rest in St. George are being held on the order of Sheriff Corless, who in the mean-, time has reported their arrest to Sheriff Peterson of Weber county for him to take such action as he sees fit. |