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Show THEY WERE LIVINGHIGH Now Seven Railroad Clerks Arc Charred With Stealing. CHICAGO, Jan. 21. After a sensational sensa-tional series of arrests in which one of the acciroed men fainted, another hid in bed and a third led in an exciting chase, seven employees of the Lake' Shore & Michigan Southern railroad have been held to the grand Jury charged with larceny. The accused men were yard clerks in charge of sealing freight cars 1n the Englewood yards. Detectives employed by the railroad secured evidence that systematic pilfering had been going on for two months. One of the men accused, according to the detectives' statement, made a specialty spe-cialty of stealing cigars and champagne. cham-pagne. He is said to have smoked eighteen 10-cent cigars a day and to have given many to his friends. Other missing articles Include clothing, cloth-ing, hardware and Jewelry. Some of these goods were found hidden In the employees' houses. One of the men had Just purchased five acres of farming land In Michigan. |