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Show He Heard Still, Small Voice i i ' ; ' , i i : , Kf - f' v, , . r l V r- . '' 5J. . . ... !. r-:;M:, - ' " .. i t '. ' ..... w - I , ' ''-ri-'U ( j '; ' .. ' ., ' ; " - : vf ' .""V '''' ..'..",....,'' V ' " 1 ' V' f '" u.r POLICE SAY HE ADMITTED CAR THEFTS Fred Green... His conscience bethered him Conscience Is Tipster For Ex-Convict in Jail Car Theft Confession Probed After Man Is Nabbed With Stolen Hosiery Because his conscience hurt him after his arrest with an armload of hosiery boxes, Fred Green, Utah ex-convict, was being quizzed by police Friday with prospects of being turned over to federal authorities, au-thorities, having assertedly confessed interstate car theft. A atrongarm robbery, theft of a' purss tom an air traveler and reported re-ported circulation of forged checks were among other cases receiving benefit of polic thought Green waa arrested by Detectives L. B. Gifford and William M. Rogers, Rog-ers, who suspected that tlia hosiery might hsve been stolen. While waiting wait-ing at ths police station to be booked a wave of remorse engulfed him and, taking Detective Gifford (Continues on P. re Fnevos) I Column four) Conscience Turns Tipster j When Ex-Convict Is Jailed ... e'V ijffit (Continued from Pts Or I aside, he confided that conscience was giving him no little pain. Prepared to hear the worst, Detective De-tective Glfford listened to an account ac-count of a car theft July S, taken from In front of North First West street and owned by G. R. HowelL Mr. Green said he left the car In tha foothills near Grantsvllle. As tha oae has not been discovered, the detectives arranged to visit that district dis-trict with him. A.trifls thrilled at tha impression he hsd mads upon the officer, Creen delved deeper into his past "I guess the federals want me," he said, a smile playing across his face and his eye fixed on tha detective's detec-tive's expression. Hs thsn confessed con-fessed to having stolen a truck In Montsna. which hs said he had driven driv-en across the state line. Green reportedly told the officers that after a burglary at tha home of Lloyd Nelson in Aaaconda, Mont., in which he obtained $18, ha stole Lloyd's truck October 2 and drove nearly to Dubois, Idaho, where he had a wreck. He had the truck towed Into town for repair! and never called for It, he said. Detectives Glfford and Rogers said that after they looked for the stolen Howell car In tha Grantsvllle foothills. Green probably would be turned over to federal authorities. His criminal record goes back to December, 1928, when he was arrested ar-rested for burglary and served time on Blackwell's Island, New York. He also served time in the Idaho prison on a bad check charge and in an Idaho Jail for petty larceny. Convicted of forgery, hs was sentenced sen-tenced to two years and five months BARTINI LOUSE Robbed of relief money In the Utah prison, being released last May. In 1929 hs had been arrested ar-rested on a wife desertion charge, being required to post a (300 bond for a year to guarantee support. A suspect In tha strongarm robbery rob-bery In which Bartinl Louise, 75. of SIS Wast Fourth South street, loot tlS In relief money, Arthur Curtis. 87. of 1S3S West Ninth South street, was held by police Friday. Officers said Mr. Louise Identified Identi-fied Curtis as the man who took the money away from him Wednesday night on Fifth West street between Broadway and Fourth South atrset. Arriving here Thursday by plane from Iowa, Mrs. H. L. Craven of Seattle took a nap In the women's lounge at tha airport When shs awoke her purse with 130 and her passage to Seattle were gone. She boarded the next plane for Seattle. leaving Salt Lake City policemen I to run down the thief. I Cheater P.. Colborn, head of the bad check detail In the police department, de-partment, warned that payroll checks of ths Skull Creek Shearing I company, Skull Creek, Colo., were i being circulated In Bait Lake county ! bearing the forged algnaturs of ! Frank E. Roberta, manager. The ! firm Is out of business, hs said. Recovery at Santa Clara of an automobile alolen here Wednesday from Brandt Gray and E. A. Wilson, Wil-son, (32 East Second South atrset, by four boys 14 to It years old waa reported by A. O. Peterson of ths j national auto theft bureau. I Sheriff Anton Prince of Washington Wash-ington county hsd received a call j from Salt Lake City police to bo on I the lookout for the stolen car and tha boys were found on a aide road they had taken when they found I the checking station on hlghwsy U. S. 91 blocked. The sheriff wss ; aided by ths state highway patrol. At the request of Ogden police, 1 officers here were on the lookout for Edward Herscovltt, 21, who allegedly al-legedly had paid 123 down on a i $400 diamond at Ogden and left there after trying to resell the jewel. |