Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-07-08 | Page 9 | Shoes Disappear; Are Arrested with Negro Attached

SHOES DISAPPEAR ARE ARRESTED WITH NEGRO ATTACHED i i i After placing a pair of repaired shoes on a drying board on the tho sidewalk near rear a little BlUe window at a A. shoe repair shop under tho the McGeo McGee shoe shoo store on We West t Second South street yester yesterday ay afternoon af af- af the owner was startled at soc see sec sec- in ing a black ack hand slowly drift along toward tho shoes and suddenly carr carry them away The Tho owner stuck tuck his hea head out of the window just in timo time to see sec seea seca a ne negro o with a light shirt on d dash h around the corner of Second cond South and Main streets Tho The owner of tho shoes informed Policeman Pierce who went in inquest inquest in inquest quest of or the tha negro and the shoes shoos Both were traced to a shoe shop in Commercial Commer cial dat street and placed tinder arrest tho the negro on a char charge o of pott potty petty larceny and the tho shoes as ns evidence of tho the man mans man's s guilt In Judge Diehl Diehls court this morning tho the ne negro ro who gave e the name of Geor George Georgo o Harris Bani told the careworn story tory of how howa a 8 man had given ahon him the shoes to soil sell He lio said tho the man Was a white man man very well Wen dressed and was in tho American house on Commercial street street- reel Diehl Diehi decided that a well wen dressed whito man would not bo be in the American house and that no man however low would trust hust an American house ne negro o with a pleasant let alono alone a 0 pair of shoes shoos Harris was sentenced to serve fifty days dars at hard labor on tho the city chain can gang