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Show SENSATION IS SADLY SPOILED Attempt to MaKe Political Capital Oat of Recovery of TronK Stolen in Denver. Den-ver. Through the assistance of the Salt Lake police, Miss Kate Batcliff, a traveling trav-eling saleswoman, recovered a trunk containing valuable wearing apparel snd samples, which was stolen from tbe Albany hotel in Denver. The opposition newspapers and the belated Sheriff's office are endeavoring to cook up a sensation out of the incident inci-dent for political effect. Miss Ratcliff claims that the trunk was stolen from a room in which she had left it at Denver. Later, she claims, nhe was informed that the trunk had been brought to this city. When the matter was reported to the Salt Lake police, every assistance was given Miss Ratcliff to enable her to re-rover re-rover hef property. Through the efforts ef-forts of Chief Sheets and his assistants a large part of the stolen property was recovered and returned to tbe owner. The man who had sold tbe property to a second-hand dealer, has evidently left tbe city, and the officers have been unable to locate him. fcergt. Ed Jannev made the following statement to THE TELEGRAM, this morning: ' "Rome time during tbe latter part of August of this year a man came to me and said that he bad a trunk containing some clothing which he had offered for sale at a second-hand store. He told me thst the trunk belonged to his wife, and that nhe had deserted him in Pittsburg, Pa. He said that he had followed ber to Denver, sndlater to Salt Lake, with tbe hopes of getting ber to come back to him. He said that he had not been able to find his wife, and that he was tired of cerrying the trunk and wanted to eell it and its contents. "I went with him to the second-hand store where the trunk had been left and told the proprietor that if tbe man was willing to give a bill of sale for the trunk and its contents, I ssw no reason wbv he should not purchase the same. ' 'The man made out -the bill of sale in m v presence and received the money for the trunk and its contents. "The charge that I signed a permit for the sale o? the trunk or its contents is absolutely false. No such a permit is needed from any officer nor did 1 ever give one." |