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Show FOUR ACCUSED IN FURJHEFTS A grand larceny complaint charging charg-ing four persons with theft of a IMS mink coat and linking them by implication im-plication with fur thefts totaling mora than (3000 In Salt Lake City was signed Tuesday. As police continued search for three of the persons named, the fuuitli, Nkh Tiall. 1. was held In the city jail as police worked toward solution of the thefts, all of which occurred October 88, but did not come to light until various stores which were victimized had taken Inventories. The four are charged with theft of a $483 Japanese mink coat "TP om the Hudson Bay Fur company, in a complaint signed before Justice of the Peace Martin B. Peterson by Detective J. J. Ferrin." Trail was arrested in St. George by Detectives Ferrin and W. C. Smith after police received word eome furs were being peddled there. Tha three otner: named, Irene Slender and Mr. and Mrs. T. Well, are atill at large. Despite the fact the complaint la algned, however. Detective Captain Cap-tain E. A. Hedman aaid tha police had nothing mora than the tentative tenta-tive identification of a woman, pV Athec evidence, to go aaw An employe of the Hudson Bay Fur company, where two expensive furs were stolen, picked Trail- out of a lineup of police suspects as "looking just like the man" who was assertedly in the store at the time the fura disappeared. Another woman, employed at the Makoff Classic shop, failed to Identify Trail aa a suspect Meanwhile, police had another fur theft to solve. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lundin. 1021 Thirteenth East street, reported a Siberian gray squirrel cape valued at $6000 and a fox fur valued at $35 were stolen from their home Monday night. Entrance to the house waa gained by forcing a window and a door. The residence waa ransacked but nothing more than the furs and a pair of men's shoes were stolen. Mrs. Lundin said the thieves may have trailed her home from a downtown store when she took the wrap out of storage aeveral weeks ago. The grand larceny complaint against the four persons waa based on thefts from a number of local ' stores October 28, when two couples used ruses to distract attention of clerks while one of their group disappeared dis-appeared with the furs. Meanwhile, police records contained con-tained two more thefts, one of them classed as a postmortem Halloween prank. A few days before Halloween Harold Har-old M. Newbold, 868 South Eighth West street, locked hia home made automobile trailer aecurely in his yard. When Halloween passed he un- locked the trailer and considered all dangers past But he, reckoned wrong. The night of November 4 the trailer disappeared. Monday night police found it gracing the front lawn of a residence at Ninth East street and Roosevelt avenue. Except Ex-cept for a flat tire, it waa undamaged. undam-aged. Clarence Steene, 1310 East Second Sec-ond South street, told police that when he awakened Monday morning morn-ing he discovered that someone had stolen his trousers, containing a billfold bill-fold and two checks, both unindorsed. |