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Show BOYS CONFESS TO TWO LEHI BURGLARIES Gifts received by n Salt Lake girl led to the arrest of Arthur Denzil Turner, IS, of Lehi and Ilobert Ferguson, Fer-guson, 17, of Salt Lake City, In connection con-nection with the robbery of the Broadbent store ut Lehi on the night of January 14. The boys were nrrested in Salt Luke Saturday by Detectives It. L. Eddington and Bert Seager. Turner Tur-ner confessed to the burglary and implicated Ferguson, who stoutly maintained his Innocence. After the hoys liad been brought lo the I tah county jail, both confessed to Otto Birk, chief criminal deputy sheriff, of participating In two bur- j glaries in this comity. ; According to the story told by the boys, they entered the Broadbent store on the night of January 1 I at, 11 o'clock and carried away several hundred dollars worth of goods. On the night of February 3, they broke Into the Brndshnw garage In Lchl whore they stole n coonskin overcoat, automobile tools (ind gasoline. gaso-line. After placing the loot in n suck, the boys walked during a blinding snow storm almost to the point of the mountain. There they assisted , in shoveling out two automobiles ! which had been st uck hi the niiow j banks and then were given ti ride i an fnr as Ihe Jordan high school. J They took the street car from Sandy i for the Ferguson home In Suit Luke, j Early last week Turned presented i to a girl friend in Suit Lake a niani-I niani-I curing set and n wrist, watch. A ; d;iy or two later he returned to her home and nsked to get back the ju-es-I cuts. The girl refused to give them 1 up. When Turner called a second time for the presents, the girl, on advice of n relative, notified the police and the arrest h followed. A charge of first degree burglary will be entered against the two young men, according to Depul y Birk. |
