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Show $1200 EUREKA THEFT SUSPECT TAKEflOOTifl ."Eureka . Sheriff Arrests ' . Man at Tintic Junction in Connection With Jew- elry Theft From Home STOLEN VALUABLES FOUND UNDER SEAT Conductor Discoyers Can't Can-'t ras Bag Gem Cache -r En Route to-Salt Lake ' Burglary to Be Charged ' EUREKA, July It. John Slmly, II, win bo charged with burglary to a complaint to be Issued Monday, according to Sheriff Dan Martin, who took Slmly off a' Salt Lake bound train Friday noon at TInttc Junction, lees than four hours after It Is alleged ho had entered th home of John Ballen here and made off with more than fliov In money and jewelry. Slmly wa arreated on a description furnished by women .neighbors who noticed a strangs , 'man enter th Bsllen residence shortly after t o'clock Friday morning. Ths burglary eras not diecovered until li o'clock, whss Mrs. Ballen returned home. 8h.r iff Martin was notified at 1 o'clock and thirty mlnutea later he Inter., oepted ths train at Tint! Junction four miles from, here. Search of Blmly'a person revealed about 1500 of th loot. Thla hs claimed to b. hie own property. I Search of the train aeat occupied ' by Slmly failed to disclose th other articles. En rout, to Salt Lake, Conductor Law Moor, unearthed a I anva bag, nidden under a seat adjacent to that previously sccuplsd by Slmly, which contslned the balance bal-ance of ths property deeczibed to Sheriff Msrtln as stolon,. FOUND HIDING PLACE. ' : Slmly cams bar a few day ago, posing as a miner. Sheriff Msrtln isald. He became acquainted1 with -certain of hla countrymen and tn some way learned where Ball.a and George Be vise, who boards with irti. Ballene, ssueetsd. their valuables. valua-bles. Neighbors of th. Ballene had seen Slmly near that rssld.no several sev-eral times recently. About o'clocg Friday titers , ween to enter th Ba)ln houee. th .sheriff said. Mrs. Ballen was ab-.sent ab-.sent en a shopping trip. When ah .returned at noon a he found that a trunk bad been- forced open and . $:o In money, a diamond pin valued at 1(0 and a ring valued at 110 belonging to Beavlee and a 'watch, chain and ling valued at . over tie and eome currency belonging be-longing t. her nusbandt war gon. ,' Mrs. Ballen talks English brokenly broken-ly and aha had some difficulty In communicating knowledge of the theft to her Immediate neighbors. The town marshsl was summoned ' and, sfter a cursory Investigation, he In turn summoned Sheriff Msrtln, Msr-tln, Acting on th. sssumptlon thst the thief might attempt to sscaps on th. train leaving her. at I , o'clock and armed only with the description of the atrang visitor furnished by women of th. neighborhood, neigh-borhood, Martin raced by auto for Tintic Junction, LOOT FOUND, ' " ' Slmly was th only mart aboard who answered th description. When the search revealed some articles ar-ticles snswerlng the description furnished by Mrs. Ballen, Martin took Slmly Into custody pending further Investigation of ths prison, !- claims of ownership. He was, it la said. Identified as the man seen entering the Ballen place. Tele-. Tele-. graphlo advice from . Conductor Moor, that the balance of the loot had beea found near 81mlys seat, determined the officers that they had arrested tha right man. Moore turned over ths bag of jewelry to Sheriff Martin her. today and the ' latter announced that a complaint charging Slmly with burglary . would be filed Monday. |